T'other day, Margaret Spellings (Bush's Secretary of Education) went on the Daily Show and declared that the problem with public education in America is that we don't hold our kids to high enough standards. This is a convenient argument because you can't very well respond that people aren't generally fundamentally ingenious without casting ( Read more... )

They Might Be Giants is releasing a new CD, the Else, in stores July 10. It is already available for purchase on i-tunes now.

Celebrate!!!

Did a search on Tivo for "Presidential Debate." Tivo found the first Republican primary debate on May 3rd but did not find the Democratic primary debate scheduled for this coming Thursday. Knowing that the debate would be covered live on MSNBC at 7 eastern time, I did a manual search by channel and time, and found the debate listed as "South ( Read more... )

Some problems can't be calculated by the fastest modern computers. Or rather, they can be, but not before the sun dies. There are other, simpler problems which, rather than millenia, take mere years or decades to compute. One such problem is protein folding. Computers can model protein folding (the way protein molecules assemble themselves) to ( Read more... )

Poll Pre primary

From the New York Times:

Gingrich Admits Affair During ImpeachmentBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ( Read more... )

Went to the liquor store to get some cooking wine. Couldn't find the label we usually prefer since the store was running low on cheap stuff in general (I learned a few days ago that today is the superbowl. That probably explains it). Asked a clerk for help finding something inexpensive, since this is a massive victual repository where $5 wine is ( Read more... )

You probably should read this, especially but not only if you live in Southern California. You just don't want to do so close to meal time.

Shall we assume since I've hardly posted in months that not much of interest has transpired in my life ( Read more... )

You know you're in good hands when the director of your computer science program points you in this direction.