consider the lily
My new favorite web site: The asparagus plant is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks and garlic.
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Holy Cheetoh
Praise be.
Zeitgeist
In order, the top search strings y’all are using to get to my blog: big ass john fleck pirates global warming google games bread mold rumpology environmental determinism global warming pirates chandler wobble global warming vs pirates brandon leslie John Fleck largest pineapple jeff Baxter cool domain names fleck tang dishwasher pirates and global warming …
Daybook
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 …
Customers Who Bought…
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.
Survey Says
When you hear Harry Shearer’s real voice, which Simpsons character does he most remind you of?
How Orange County Got Its Name
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 …
Fun With Google Ads
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.
Daybook
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 …
Make That Seven
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.