My obsession with Malcolm Gladwell includes watching a 45-minute speech that he gave to Lucent and taking the Connector test from The Tipping Point.
Instant Messaging with Leonard about religion: Sumana: I found out why they don't take vows and oaths Leonard: uus? Sumana: no, Quakers Sumana: sorry Sumana: no, UUs don't take oaths because they don't believe anything …
More Alton Brown fanness: "He makes me feel special." and the perhaps obsolete observation that "it goes without saying that because it is fairly intelligent, it is woefully underpromoted".
"PNC also calculates a core index, excluding the six swans a-swimming, because the price of swans is so volatile."
"Turn round the questions asked of black people and you may get the point." Via Sarah.
An incredibly funny Good Eats moment: "Okay, they won't explode."
My third article in Salon and the only one that talks about Leonard the whole time. It's worth it to read a Cook's Illustrated, even if, like me, you seldom cook. The articles read as …
Once upon a time I thought I would write a CES entry entitled "A Thousand Voices: Augury and sympathetic magic". But I have no idea why I would have done that or what topic I'd …
Heavy metal yet again exceeds my expectations. Sort of via Airline Reviews.
Which is worse - listless lost apathetic purposelessness or strangled forced direction? The anchor that drowns or the loosed sail that any wind can blow away?
