The Trebuchet List Addendum

In which our hero continues his quest to stay the extended minimum distance required out of trouble of his own making. New additions to the self imposed object exile include

dry ice blendtec blenders All hand puppets. Especially the ones that look quite creepy when I use them. Loot mobs. Clarification: Mobs of looters, under [...]

Scene change

Heading out of Texas and up to Florida. Offline periods expected as I won’t have definitely net access until Thursday.

On the other hand, I am going to DisneyWorld and Universal Studios, so I may need some bragging time on the ‘tubes later :) Okay, so that plan tanked like a tank.

Notes from America

General observations and notes from Day 1

Good things: OMG Food. Central markets was like a candy shop, toy store and nergasm at once. So much food, so much food I could eat, and such an epically brilliant concept of component driven fresh food choices (pre-measured and pre packed ingredients including oil, condiments, noodles, pizza [...]

Bistrostatistics

Douglas Adams gave us the concept of bistromathics

To wit: “Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe”.

I believe I am witnessing the central nexus of bistrostatistics. Mathematical models [...]

links for 2011-06-05

Twitter as a bridge between text and speech Twitter's style resembles speech, and the permanency of the writing resembles text, yet it's not quite either of the two formats. (tags: c12_Social_Media)