Monday, February 7, 2011

Sentence of the day: “All that glitters is black and gold” edition

The New York Times, “Hip-Hop Comes to the Super Bowl:”

The song [Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow”] works just fine for the Pirates and the Penguins, too, it should be noted: Pittsburgh is a chromatically narrow town.

Tucson is chromatically narrow. Pittsburgh is beautiful.

Pittsburgh Moonrise 5713

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Comment of the day: Super Bowl edition

At Volokh Conspiracy, commenter DonBoy writes:

Well, as we see, many lawyers don’t care about professional football; and in return, many professional football players don’t care about the law. So it all evens out.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Sentence of the day: Cutlery edition

From Cooking for Engineers:
A potato was first cut in half along its major axis.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

It’s got a NASA motor

A 440 cubic inch plant. It's got NASA tires, NASA suspensions, NASA shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on liquid hydrogen.

The NASA Dryden police-issue Dodge Charger HEMI ER-2 (civvie U-2) chase car. Not sold in stores.


Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Spoiler Alert

The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat on St. Groundhog’s Day:

In reality, Pennsylvania’s prophetic rodent doesn’t see much of anything. The result is actually decided in advance by 14 members of the club’s Inner Circle, who don tuxedos and top hats for the event.

I can’t wait for their big Santa Claus exposé next December.

Slonkast Episode 21

Last night I was privileged to be the guest of Kevin Slonka and Ryan Lantzy on episode 21 of the Slonkast, a podcast devoted to technology, social networking, computer security, and mobile technology. I had a great time on the show, and it reminded me of the glory days of the SACS Report. Except you can’t see my socks.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Technological progress in cookery

There’s a been a blogospherical discussion about the level of recent technological progress in home cooking. Krugman and Cowen have written on the topic, but I found Megan McArdle’s contribution to be most interesting thus far, perhaps because she’s an avid home cook. Most of her post rings true to me, especially this: