a question of efficiency
There is a semi-circular drive on the west side of the campus, and I usually bike or walk up it on my way in to school every day. Most pedestrians walk on the sidewalk on the outer edge. Let r denote...
View Articleabombinable snowman
The Head Yeti himself, Ranjit, was in town yesterday and we got to hang out very briefly. What’s even better is that he’ll be out here again in a scant few weeks!
View ArticleLucky Charmers vs. Cheerioians
McSweeny’s has a hilarious parody of David Brooks’ column “style”: A close look by a disarming columnist/commentator/author at the issues facing the candidates this year shows that one of these groups...
View ArticleI was 30 years too late
In doing some literature searches, I came across paper from 1973 with the following in the abstract: A generalization of information theory is presented with the aim of distinguishing the direction of...
View ArticleI win
I won the GreenCine trivia contest and won the prize, a copy of Coffee and Cigarettes. Now I can watch Alfred Molina lay into Steve Coogan as often as I want. Muwahahahaha. And in other news, The...
View Articletracks go
Of course I know nothing of baseball… 1. Take Me Out To The Ballgame (Harry Hindermyer) 2. Fools Rush In (Frank Sinatra) 3. She’s Actual Size (They Might Be Giants) 4. Morphee (Moxy Früvous) 5. 6...
View Articlewriting as a weapon
I’ve never read a book by E.L. Doctorow, but this essay has many locutions beautiful to my ears: A war will do that as well as anything. You become a wartime leader. The country gets behind you....
View Articlecoir mats
Berkeley Economics Professor Brad DeLong has a thought-provoking post on trade at his blog. He takes to task an article from Slate on the ethics of purchasing goods manufactured in developing countries...
View Articlekaragoz
In my aimless web-surfing today I learned about karagoz, a shadow-puppet theater form from Turkey. Although it started in court performances for the Ottoman Sultan, karagoz trickled down to become one...
View Articlewhy I am depressed
A lot of people have been linking to this letter from a Wall Street Journal reporter in Iraq. It is amazing, as Josh Marshall points out, for the disjunction between it and the actual news we get in...
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