Yeah, this won't fit into 140 characters ( Read more... )

http://www.dorktower.com/2010/02/15/dork-tower-monday-february-15-2010/

Question for you cooks and chemists out there: what flavors are being extracted when you cook with alcohol? If they're polar, wouldn't a more polar solvent (like water, or if you're worried about diluting flavor, broth) work better? If they're more non-polar, wouldn't a non-polar solvent work better? Or are there no edible/tasty non-polar

From: http://nerviosismo.tumblr.com/post/222166649Well, the bottom is obvious to anyone who's done convolutions. The top one is easy to show by induction ( Read more... )

I just flew in from Texas, and boy are my arms tired. Actually, no, but my right shoulder is still kinda sore ( Read more... )

Last night's dream involved a psychologist and a wizard arguing over whether the universe is rational. The psychologist was aided by Hughie, Dewey, and Louis, who were wielding arcane artifacts to create a special effects show. Both sides eventually agreed that the universe is rational, just not humans.

I think we broke James' brain.

I passed the following out to my students last Friday. It's my attempt to boil active learning strategies onto a 1-page handout in the hopes that some of them adopt them. However, I have a feeling a lot of them are already jaded by college, gave it a glance, and promptly forgot about it. Frankly, because of the space limitation, I had to cut out ( Read more... )

So since my digestion went blooey last month, I've been avoiding caffeine and milk where possible. Which means the person who penned "We put the TEA in TEAM" into comic book has been avoiding milk tea like the plague. But listen to an early 70s rock song about dating a transvestite and a mid-80s Weird Al parody of it about a wrinkled green muppet ( Read more... )

What does a dream mean if we're running through a mall, getting lost, in search of popcorn shrimp, David is up front somewhere, and someone who looks like Shaenon Garrity but with a bigger nose keeps trying to get us to synch up so she can kick me in the sole of the foot as we run along and is amused at how compliant I am?

I usually dump links to my twitter, but the backlog of political links have been building up.

Obama tells schoolchildren to work hard:

• political cartoon
  
• hypocrisy

Health care:

• cost comparison
  
• Ted Kennedy's letter to Obama

"You lie!":

• you can't say that in parliament
  
• community chest: call your opponent a liar, collect $700000

the chinese dreamEdit: ( Read more... )