the May 23, 2011 issue of The New Yorker has an article by Michael Specter on growing meat in a test tube or petri dish. i’ve always wanted a meat tree in the garden, so now that we’re putting in new containers and ordering shitloads of dirt i thought it would be a great time [...]
Back decades ago, when the chain stores started invading NY, and every corner seemed to sprout a Starbucks or a Rite Aid, Blockbuster Video, Bon au Pain, or a Gap, a friend of mine so aptly said “LA has won.” Now that the city boasts even more shops from the global marketplace (on this trip [...]
this is an addendum to my earlier post on rationality:
in between the irrational numbers of e and π is the number 3, a bastion of rationality when it comes to all kinds of things.
Errol Morris’ piece on Thomas Kuhn, Saul Kripke, Pythagorus, and incommensurability is a giant brain bender, and it forced me to back the bus up many years. i read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions a long time ago as an undergraduate crashing a seminar led by Todd Gitlin, but i was taught the weird concept [...]
the giant hole in the roof’s been cut, so the moonlight can stream in. the insulation is also in place, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference today. i know we’re not buried under ten feet of snow, but it’s been sweater-shirt-fleece-wool hat inside the house kind of weather. in fact its cold and [...]
Light arriving at an opaque surface is like me arriving at a buffet. it’s all about which dish will be rejected and which dish will be ingested, since the color of something is determined by which wavelengths of light are reflected and which wavelengths are absorbed. turn away all wavelengths and you are a big [...]
joy comes in so many flavors these days, and here’s Canine Sherman’s favorite way to express it: joy also comes in the form of salted caramel ice cream. the recipe calls for 5 egg yolks and a shitload of milk/butter/cream. turn the orphaned egg whites into pizza dough, top with salami, avocado and fall tomatoes [...]
i’m working on a new title for the novel, so here it is.
i realized that i had a brain melt the other day and forgot the most important part of the commie pizza story. we stood in line for a while waiting to order, but when it was our turn, the pizza guy said “we are out of cheese…but i don’t want you to wait, so can [...]
