June 15, 2005
Writer's blog
This blog has been lacking new content lately. If I had cats, I could blog about them on Fridays! But I don't.
There's a game of make-up-your-own conspiracy tag going around, but since I seem to be a chain termination step in such matters (at least with my co-bloggers, unsubtle and slightly needling hint) there's not much point. Anyway, There Is No Conspiracy.
It's been 30 to 35 degrees C in New York City lately, which I have been enjoying immensely. After pneumonia, it's like being wrapped in a nice warm blanket.
My dad tells me to e-mail him every once in a while, just to say, "I'm not dead." He's very practical that way. Think of this post as the equivalent.
Foodie stuff: Brooklyn Weiss on tap is extremely good! Claudia, I am sure you are skeptical, but this is the real deal.
Math-y stuff: Herbert Wilf has several books available for downloading online, including generatingfunctionology and A=B. (Love that first title. Sounds like an album Blue Note released in 1958.)
Family stuff: my sister the engineer/architect/theater person has an entry in the Coney Island Parachute Pavilion contest. Sadly, she didn't win, but she had fun.
Geeky stuff: None to report. Honest.
Posted by coyu at June 15, 2005 03:16 AM>There's a game of make-up-your-own conspiracy
>tag going around...
Two non-sequiturs.
1) I reread Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_ lately, and enjoyed it a lot more this time around.
2) Back in the early nineties, when I was one of the people who helped make up the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt list, one of the items I put on the list was "a conspiracy theory connecting all of ..." oh, I guess it was something along the lines of crop circles, Atlantis, the Illuminati, the Loch Ness Monster, and two or three other kook magnets, to the University of Chicago. The participants in the hunt ran with this and we got some amusing entries.
The following year, the University's undergraduate application included the "conspiracy theory" item as an essay question.
Posted by: Dennis Brennan at June 16, 2005 08:02 PMDennis, that's dirt easy. You just connect them all through David Friedman.
Posted by: Carlos at June 16, 2005 09:28 PMIf I had cats, I could blog about them on Fridays!
But I would really, really wish you wouldn't. I would like to start a movement banning the blogging of cats. Better no post at all than a post about cats.
Posted by: BionOc at June 17, 2005 03:29 AM