Unsurprisingly, I am again writing from my weekend hideout in Blue Monday, the local coffee-shop inhabited by college students and the few locals doughty (or ignorant) enough to brave the affected intelligentsia crowd telling stories from last night a little bit too loudly.
Unsurprisingly, I am not studying Green’s Theorem nor am I calculating optimal bundles [...]
Once again I find myself with writer’s block, so I’ll simply post an interesting link. It’s a cop-out, but hopefully an entertaining one.
Touchy, Feely, Smelly, Interesting Public Art.
I’d like to check this out next time I’m in New York. It’s heartening to hear that there’s still money out there for weird art. Or [...]
The hiding place, until 1992 (when he died,) of Dr. Aribert Heim, the Nazi “Doctor Death” was discovered: check it out!
This guy did some seriously messed up things at the concentration camp Mauthausen in Austria… and lived to a ripe old age in peace and comfort, free as a bird. Cheery.
It’s not as though meteor showers are an especially rare occurrence, but it isn’t easy to know when and where they’re going to happen. Occasionally they will be announced on NPR or a blurb can be found in some obscure section of the newspaper, but the vast majority of showers, as far as I am [...]
It is my opinion that food isn’t just for eating. It’s very much for looking at too, and to a discerning eye the appearance is a very good indicator of the way the morsel will taste. Of course, simply starting at food for hours on end will not feed you (on the bright side, it won’t make you gain any weight, either) but it will entertain, delight and tempt you. It may even push you to make some food of your own.