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A Wire Darkly
After many recommendations, we've begun watching season one of The Wire. For those of you who don't know this is a police drama from HBO by David Simon. Simon explains in the commentary that he and his writing partner Ed Burns wanted to explore the theme of institutional betrayal. The first season follows two sets of characters: One set in a gang ( Read more... ) -
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I was reading about cell phone novels on metafilter and the idea intrigues me in the abstract but I can't say what it is exactly I like about it. Perhaps it's just some kind of ADHD resonance.
Recently someone recommended Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World to me. This evening I picked it up at the store and started ( Read more... ) -
downtime
Some updates ( Read more... ) -
Trig questions
So, the unit circle is pretty handy, but there are some angles I've always wondered about and don't have the skillz to figure out.
1. The Pythagorean formula (x2 + y2 = z2) has solutions in natural numbers when x and y and z are multiples of 3, 4 and 5 (9 + 16 = 25). As typically expressed in radians (in terms of π), what are the angles of this ( Read more... ) -
Food Indigo
What follows is a short list of vegetables which are also available in purple, blue, or dark red.
( Eggplant... ) -
Theme song
I dreamed up an amalgam of every Saturday morning cartoon show with this theme song:
In the frontiers of space full of outlaws and bandits
Sheriff Princess Miller!
Is the only one who stands for justice and order
Sheriff Princess Miller!
How can she do it with only paws for hands?
Sheriff Princess Miller!
With her robot butler and ( Read more... ) -
Hey Grand Rapids people
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The matter of cauliflower
The few times we've prepared cauliflower for something it's been in the borderlands between bland and gross. The times I remember enjoying cauliflower have been with broccoli and cheese and, at least once in minestrone. Anyone have any suggestions for preparing cauliflower that takes best advantage of it's flavor?
I have a few ideas. Cauliflower ( Read more... ) -
WALL-E
WALL-E is a lonely trash compactor, apparently the sole survivor of a massive effort to clean-up on a future Earth, ruined by trash. He collects interesting bits of trash from the long-gone human civilization and is obsessed with the movie Hello Dolly, otherwise he keeps a rigorus schedule of collecting trash, compacting it into cubes, and building ( Read more... ) -
like chess
This morning I dreamt I was in a faraway land, and after some social gaff, I was challenged to this chess-like game. The board was ten feet square, there were sixty large, ornate pieces to a side made of blown glass. There are lions, dragons, emperors, princesses, monks, slaves, also, cannons and a few others. For the beginner version of this this ( Read more... )