Meme Time
I held a small pie potluck today, in honor of National Pie Day. Everyone who brought a pie, brought a blueberry pie, so it was three blueberries against my lone durian. The durian, of course, lost by a...
View ArticleFriday Fun Poll: What’s On My Bed?
This morning, I woke up on the cynical side of the bed. What's on the *other* side of the bed? Buddhist detachment Pedantry Snark Barack Obama pudding The half full side, of course. An anticline Your...
View ArticleWhat to Do with the Universe?
I was recently convinced that there are three possible fates for the universe. Sci-fi narrative fates, not bona fide cosmological ones: Nothingness Trick question! The universe never ends God Mr....
View ArticleAnother Music Meme
This one’s making the rounds again: Put your music library on shuffle. Post the first lines of the first 25 songs that come up. The game: Guess which songs the first lines are from! Google = cheating....
View ArticlePre-Pie Contest Pie Poll
Scienceblogs is planning a pie contest for Pi Day, March 14. I am waiting for clarification on just how many pies we will be allowed to enter, but I suspect it will be a finite number of pies, which...
View ArticleFruitilinear Perturbation Methods for Layered Meringue Spaces
Flavor factor analyses of nutmeg distributions show systematic deviations from Poisson behavior despite homogeneous squash. We recorded spice-triggered covariance profiles from the filling layer at...
View ArticleEmployed at Last
Update, April 2: I hope you all had a wonderful April Fools Day, unmarred by water shortages, supervolcanoes, and threats to your world view. This was a fake, but I should have a real job announcement...
View ArticleHow Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
This morning, the California Supreme Court will announce its decision on whether or not a slim 50% majority can amend the state constitution in order to specifically deny a previously-recognized...
View ArticleTerminology Request: Graphic Design Fail
When you’re putting together a complicated plot, sometimes you’ll start out with a carefully chosen color scheme; other times you’ll use the default display from your software of choice. Then you add a...
View ArticleRecipe Ideas from the Search Logs
One of the traditional indulgences of owning a blog is looking through your referral logs to giggle at how people have found your site. In addition to the usual sex, typos and WTFery (“joys and...
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