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King George in Austr(al)ia

Mr. Pres(id)ent, thank you. Thank you for proving, once more, that any idiot can buy/steal/fool the electorate of this once-great country of ours. Bull Moose, where have you gone?* * My favorite Teddy Roosevelt moment… The presidential candidate for his newly formed Progressive Party, TR was shot on 14 October …

Car Thoughts

Our non-Jeep car (not pictured) appears to be sputtering its way toward the premature death that awaits most American-made vehicles. It’s a Dodge Stratus, built in this century. But still it dies. Rust burdens its skin, and the innards are diseased. Sometimes the power locks work; sometimes they don’t. Sometimes …

Fun With Mathematics!

Just to be sure things don’t bend too far into the medieval around here, I give thee … Hotdamn. It just cracks me up when e says she’s uncomfortable with being rounded to the nearest tenth. (And if you don’t quite get the joke, check out Fourier’s proof that e …

God’s Number and the Rubik’s Cube

Breaking news from the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation in Waterloo, ON (I’m not making this up): any Rubik’s Cube (remember these things?) can be solved in less than 26 moves: The study brings scientists one step closer to finding the so-called “God’s Number” which is the minimum …

About Gangster’s Paradise…

Johan suggests Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise” to be Chaucer’d. A fine suggestion, but, alas, I can’t sing/rap/whatever. Seriously. I got no voice for it. In addition, ’tis hard to imagine making anything more funny out of this song than Weird Al’s “Amish Paradise”: