Frickin' Aliens!!!

Dude! Duuude! So last night, I heard this weird kind of chorus-of-angels noise coming from outside, so I run out to look, and there's this giant light in the sky! As I'm watching, it kinda opens up into a big square, and then starts flashing weird symbols at me. Each line stayed up for about a minute, which was plenty of time to copy them down (luckily, I remembered to bring a notebook out with me): ( Behold! )

After these thirteen lines, the light went out and the aliens whooshed away, leaving behind only memories, and a small card they dropped that said "if you can figure that out, we'll come back in a week with lesson two".

Can anyone figure out what this means?

The huge honking tea leaf tea

Behind the cut is a picture of tea leaves. I just made a pot of this stuff, and looking down into the basket afterward, I thought it was really pretty, so I posted it.
( Tea porn )

This stuff is Tie Guan Yin, an Oolong tea that's my favorite non-black tea. Tea leaves are graded in part based on size, and this stuff has the largest leaves of any tea I've seen. It's like whole leaves. Dry, it's these little wadded green pellets, but the unfold in the water; that whole basket is three spoonfuls.

It tastes amazing. This is my third container of it. It's not green tea at all, it's more like a lighter black tea. This is my first time trying it as iced tea though.