CNN wants to know what humanity's greatest achievement is. Decent answers, I think, considering that CNN is the news network that once had Jerry Falwell on to discuss whether or not Armageddon was imminent, and he was more sane than the anchor. Fire, I think is a solid one, and for all that going to the moon was essentially just an operation of ( Read more... )

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Anyway, the real point of this entry is to say that having your honeymoon at a Motley Crue show has to be the truest foundation for a stable, loving, and lasting marriage.

I doubt it's possible, but here at least is a formulation of the problem involving nothing but sweet, sweet algebra ( Read more... )

Partly since I've been making little progress in my research, things have had me feeling generally down. So, I decided to rectify this. I ate a wedge of magical space brownies which I had concocted, and then went to Shakespeare's Arms to drink scotch and watch the All-Star game. And goddamn if I don't feel better. This in spite of the fact that the ( Read more... )

My conference finished yesterday. Though most of the talks went right over my head, it was still fun. I do think I learned some stuff, and some talks I was able to follow fairly well. I also made a friend on the last day, a PhD student at UofT from China. Unfortunately, he won't be attending part 2 of the conference in August, so I don't know when ( Read more... )

I saw that Pelham 123 movie today. The upside was that it featured James Gandolfini (Sopranos), Gbenga Akignabe (Wire), Chance Kelly (Generation Kill), and John Turturro (Big Lebowski). So, it was kinda like watching a mash-up of my favourite TV/movies. The downside was that if indeed it HAD been such a mash-up, it still probably would have made ( Read more... )

Everyone says that Michael Jackson was generation X, or Y, or whoever's Elvis. Who the fuck is our Elvis, though? Brittany Spears? I'm not convinced we have one ( Read more... )

It is a medically proven fact that Rex Murphy is the worst columnist in the world. Still, every now and again he manages to surprise even the most cynical of readers with his ability to plumb the very deepest depths of inanity, fathomless distances beyond even a Margaret Wente column about the time she got boned in a canoe. To witA few illustrative ( Read more... )

So, what does the Jeopardy screening process involve, you wonder? I shall tell you ( Read more... )

Highlight reel from New York City ( Read more... )