Category Archives: the day lee
how to warm up on a cold day
right angles
if the tip of the nose can touch the edge of the bone, then the result will be a right angle.
The dollar then and now
There’s a story of how a waiter once became angry at John D. Rockefeller after J.D. left only a dollar as a tip. Supposedly Rockefeller replied “Because of such thinking, you’re only a waiter.”
More recently, Andre Agassi recalled in his new memoir how he and his trainer once made a bet about how big a tip Pete Sampras gave to a valet. About the $1.00 tip Agassi writes, “We could not be more different, Pete and I.”
Go inflation.
canine sherman centerfolds
merle is the new plaid.
relativity 101
one dozen icons of the Post-internet generation
bias schmias
life, and the world in general, is getting less and less fair.
make ’em toss it on the ground!
a study (thank you codingthewheel) that shows how a “heads or tails” proposition is not all peachy and equal.
the pythagorean theorem
made of tasty sticks and square roots…
fruit news from Scary Boots
a discussion on fruit vs. drupes vs. berries from Scary Boots.
but it’s just the tip of the argument. what about roots vs. rhizomes?
the footnotes are actually interesting—specifically #3—there is some argument that Adam and Eve’s thing with the “apple” way back in the 0 of BC time might actually have been an ORANGE, as the word “apple” used to be a catch-all word for “fruit.” there should be an Italian citrus movement to hire a messload of artists to paint over all the paintings of Eve peeling an orange rather than biting into the apple. Adam can be pictured as spitting out the seeds on the snake.