reading: Tipped by the newly ubiquitous Kevin Vranes, I picked up The Wisdom of Crowds at the library yesterday, thinking it sounded all Gladwell. And who’s there on the back flacking it with a jacket blurb but Malcolm Gladwell. music: Bill Evans on a quiet Sunday morning while I drank my coffee and read about …
Discovered while adding album art to the podGoober, this non sequitur: Customers who bought Boulez conducting Stravinsky also seem to have an affinity for Sgt. Pepper. One wonders if Sgt. Pepper is one of those super-nodes, like Kevin Bacon or Paul Erdos.
When you hear Harry Shearer’s real voice, which Simpsons character does he most remind you of?
There’s this story I made up once a long time ago. It’s about how Orange County, in Southern California, got its name. I was on a date at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, which is up on the side of a hill, before a Jackson Browne concert. Jackson Browne, as you know, is pretty cute, which …
From Robbert Heederik’s web page on Michael Kenyon, The Illinois Enema Bandit, we find an advertisement for Johnny Cochran’s law firm, specializing in theft/armed robbery. No mention of whether Cochran defends enema cases, though the legend suggests Kenyon’s odd predilection was not, in and of itself, a crime.
music: Today’s podGoober Project Gem: “rock ‘n’ roll” tuba, from back in the days before Bruce bulked up. No doubt many “rock” songs over the years have featured a tuba, but Gary Tallent’s turn on the big brass in Wild Billy’s Circus Story is the only one that comes to mind. film: Netflixed An American …
Luboš Motl, late to the party but in fine form once he arrives, nails down the Motl-Connolley connection at seven degrees of separation, in the process reinforcing the wisdom of my previous use of him as the poster child for coarse discourse. I award extra bonus points for style of presentation.
Over at NewStoat comes word that a William Connolley-Luboš Motl connection has been found: seven degrees of separation to link the pair.
Re the degrees of separation game, Tim Lambert points out that he’s got an Erdos number of three: Lambert – Stanton – Stinson – Erdos. If you really bend the rules*, I’ve got an Erdos number of five: Erdos -> Peter Palfy->Jan Saxl->Pavel Etingof->Alexander Kirillov. Which means I’ve got a Lambert number of – what …
weather: That storm, she’s a flirt, but it’s pretty clear she’s not going to put out. I’ve probably mentioned this before, but there’s a story somewhere in the crazy psychotic way the dry weather is making us feel. Two days of measurable precipitation in Albuquerque since Nov. 1. Two. music: The podGoober project’s gem of …