Winter’s Haven

Once upon a time, the Steve Miller Band wrote a piece called “Fly Like An Eagle”…

[Video: Steve Miller Band plays "Fly Like An Eagle".]

…which became duly famous and was subsequently covered by a band in the Netherlands called Soylent Green….

[Video: Soylent Green covering "Fly Like An Eagle".]

…who sadly sang the original lyrics unchanged [...]

Terrible sentence of the day:
Whatever the merits of Romer’s belief, the NYT’s line about the Depression proving that “fiscal stimulus works” is just plain horseradish.
I submit that absolutely no good, literary or culinary, can come of confusing horseradish and bullshit.
On a related note, the Bulwer-Lytton and Lyttle Lytton contests aim to collect the worst [...]

[Video: 36 Pop songs, but only 4 chords..]

And a much-needed antidote:

[Music video for Tony Levin's piece "Speedbump"..]

The Economist brings us an article about some very cool biologically inspired architecture.

PZ points out a video showing a squid giving birth to hundreds of tiny offspring. Truly wonderous.

In case you missed it, there was a terrorist incident at Los Angeles International airport last week. Care to guess what notorious group was responsible?

As should be [...]

Does anyone have advice on finding prints of paintings by relatively obscure artists? I’m trying to find prints of the work of Lin Onus; Onus isn’t actually that obscure, although he isn’t a household name. I saw his painting “Gathering Storm” at the Seattle Art Museum just before I moved, and I’ve been trying to [...]

I’ve made a number of changes to my blog’s theme. The header has been completely overhauled. The photograph I used to create the header image was taken by Ernst Schütz and is used with his permission (thanks!). Ernst took the photo from the slopes of Mount Vilan in Switzerland; it is entitled Peace in Blue-White [...]

I recently discovered some truly delicious cookies on the store self: Kashi Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies. The problem is that they are moderately expensive, and I’m hooked. Although I am a decent cook, I have very little experience baking. Does anyone know how to reverse engineer a cookie?

The Koch Snowflake is a fractal, and, as you can see, two sizes of Koch Snowflakes in a 1:3 ratio of areas tile the plane. (Kudos to Eric Weisstein’s Mathworld for bringing the latter fact to my attention.)
For those of you now wondering, “what are fractals, anyway?” or “what does it even mean for a [...]

You may have noticed that it has been quite a while since I last posted. As far as my own life is concerned, I’m still unemployed and broke. And cursed.
I am actually starting to make some improvements to the website, however. As you likely noticed, I got rid of the long-standing “Under Construction” notice on [...]

One of the first things I plan to do once I become fabulously rich is to hire a personal orchestra to follow me around and play appropriate background music. For example, I am, right now, handily knocking out nasty technical math problems. And while math is certainly its own reward, think how much better it [...]