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    Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
    2:46 pm
    Why don't they list the Quaternions?
     Earlier, I heard played on the radio "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (a cover of the Ramones song, of course) followed by "Rockaway Beach," by the Ramones. I thought, "Hey, they could have played 'Needles and Pins' by the Ramones, and then something by Jackie DeShannon. That would be cool."[1] Then I thought that there must be some website out there that keeps track of who has covered whom, right?

    Indeed there is: covertrek.com. You can even play a Six Degrees of Separation sort of game on this page. Cool, a fun new timewaster! Can we get from here to there?

    White to Black?

    Barry White covered "Long Black Veil" by Lefty Frizzell
    Lefty Frizzell covered "Life's Like Poetry" by Merle Haggard
    Merle Haggard covered "Untanglin' My Mind" by Clint Black

    ( New to Old? )
    Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
    9:39 pm
    Perhaps, in your travels, you have noticed the occasional license plate with a sequence of letters that forms a Roman numeral on it. And you may have thought, "hey, wouldn't it be neat if the Arabic numerals matched the Roman numerals? I wonder how many license plates there are like that, anyway?"

    Well, if you live in an area with a format for license plate numbers of the form 123ABC, then you need wonder no longer. There are exactly 62 of them. [Edit: originally reported as 59. Osmie noted errors which I have now corrected.]
    ( As a public service, I list them below. )
    Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
    2:36 pm
    The sound of sexy
     Today I was in a pizzeria that was playing a commercial radio station, and so I heard radio commercials for the first time in a while. I noticed how often radio commercials feature a man and a woman flirting with each other while discussing the virtues of this or that service or product. It's not every commercial, but I believe I hear many more ads of this sort on the radio than I see on TV. Why is that? Is radio a more intimate medium by virtue of lacking images?
    Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
    8:14 am
    Nampa, Idaho
     Eating breakfast in the lobby, soon to get on the road. Mike called Erik last night, and he said they've got snow in Salt Lake City. So if it's bad, we might not make New Mexico today.
    Saturday, October 27th, 2007
    11:51 am
    Attention, bibliophiles
     The other day, I came across the site bookmooch. The idea is that you post a list of the books you have and want to get rid of, other people ask for them, you mail them the books, and that gives you points to request books from other people. They also coordinate charitable donations of books.

    Just in case, you know, anyone out there has too many books on their hands. It's a better return than than bookstore trade.
    Thursday, October 11th, 2007
    1:39 pm
    Oh, how I hate personality tests
     If the folks at PersonalDNA are to be trusted, this is me:

    Animated Analyst



    ( How do I hate them? Let me count the ways. )
    Monday, October 1st, 2007
    12:06 pm
    Innards are icky
     I am not at all sure what's going on here, but I'll bet it's pretty gross.
    Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
    12:12 pm
    I hate feeling like I'm passing on old memes
     But the astounding news that Garfield is funny is too important to pass up.
    Friday, August 31st, 2007
    10:39 pm
    LiveJournal auto-post
     Damn. Why am I so tired tonight?
    Sunday, December 17th, 2006
    1:15 am
    Credit
     I'm back home at my heated, well-light apartment again. I would like to express my thanks to the following people: Luigi Galvani, Benjamin Franklin, Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, André-Marie Ampère, Georg Simon Ohm, James Clerk Maxwell, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and the hardworking repair crews of Seattle City Light.
    Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
    9:52 am
    Scientific Proof!
     People sometimes ask, "What's a good book?" I can now tell you, after a completely objective analysis, that these are the ten best books ever:

    1 The New York trilogy by Paul Auster
    2 Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell
    3 The wasp factory : a novel by Iain Banks
    4 Collected fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
    5 Invisible cities by Italo Calvino
    6 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
    7 Labyrinths; selected stories & other writings by Jorge Luis Borges
    8 The portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
    9 Brighton rock by Graham Greene
    10 Ada; or, Ardor: a family chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

    How can I be so sure? Because of this.
    Monday, October 2nd, 2006
    10:27 pm
    New fun meme!
     If you do not support this meme, please post it in your journal. If you do, please ignore it.
    Monday, September 25th, 2006
    10:23 pm
    Thursday, July 20th, 2006
    11:33 am
    Double update
     I so rarely update any more. Mostly because I am so lazy. Today I will say two things, to save myself from having to make two updates.

    First, I lost my phone at Sarah's, along the riverbank. Although it was nice to be without a phone for a while, I have now replaced it. But all the numbers I had stored were lost. So if you think I should have your phone number, give me a call.

    Second, recently Ben asked for webcomics that other people like. I think xkcd is funny.
    Thursday, July 6th, 2006
    10:03 am
    Lots, that's how many
     Recently, I was asked how many Legos I own. I can now tell you that I have about 34,000 of them. Clearly, I need more.
    Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
    2:20 pm
    Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
    7:21 pm
    Because I am absurdly competitive
     The 2-Variable Intuition Test via OKCupid!:

    Tests for your scientific and your emotional intuition and plots them relative to each other.
    ( I rule )
    Monday, February 6th, 2006
    2:38 pm
    Machines rule my life
     I have a new phone. But since I lost my old phone, I also lost all my numbers with it. So if I never call you again, that's why.

    Also, my car broke down, but thanks to Ulysses, it's now working again. So, yay, I have a way to get to work tonight.
    Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
    11:29 pm
    Finally
     I've been trying to look for a new job for a while now, but my graveyard schedule keeps me from doing anything about it. So I decided to quit my current job, and then find something else to do. I gave notice this morning.
    Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
    10:57 pm
    Out of service
     Somehow I lost track of my phone while at the coast this weekend. So, if you are trying to get ahold of me, the phone will not be the best method for a while.

    Also, if you were at the coast and somehow managed to accidentally pack my phone in with your stuff, please let me know.
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