Grandparents round the world rejoice

I am sure that there are millions upon millions of grandparents around the world who are celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Physics Prize today. It honours - amongst others - a modest Canadian man named Willard Boyle (love that name). He did some nifty thing with lasers and voila, "invented" pixels. You know, what makes digital photography possible - i.e. the raison d'etre of this blog and what made my dad say that he feels like he lives down the street from his grandchildren. (I guess, blogspot and twitter and all them folks are partying too).