July 23, 2008
Dang
Some mornings you discover that, as you left your desk the day before, you apparently placed the left earpiece of your headphones in an old cup of coffee. This is one of those mornings.
July 16, 2008
Trial and Error
Suppose you flip a coin repeatedly until you get at least one head and one tail. How many coin flips, on average, will this require?
July 12, 2008
F**ks News
With the exception of Fox News Sunday, I rarely watch Fox News, and so cannot judge whether this represents a new low. No matter what your opinion of the network, this is flabbergasting:
You can read more about it in David Carr's column.
July 1, 2008
Bagels
Sandra baked bagels, bagels she made from scratch. She started with flour, water, gluten, yeast, malted barley syrup, perhaps some salt, definitely poppy seeds, and, somehow, she turned these ingredients into steaming hot bagels. So delicious were these bagels that I ate two in one sitting, one right after the other: O, O.
Before baking bagels, one must boil them. Sandra boiled the bagels. I watched her do it. Boiled bagels. Mmmmm.