When some friends and I arrived at Town Hall last night, there were hundreds of people lined up to get tickets. Fortunately, ours were waiting at will-call. And when we got in, the 1,000-seat hall was almost full, so I knew those hundreds must have been turned away. Inside, the atmosphere was expectant and happy. [...]
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A few days ago I was paging through Carl Sagan’s wonderful book, The Demon-Haunted World. He had a knack for describing spiritual experience without reference to disembodied beings, creator gods, and so on:
“The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the [...]
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32 years ago I was in Washington D.C. (with dangblog reader, Alan) at Nixon’s second inaugural. We were war protesters. Yeesh. I’m an old dog with mangy fur, and we’re still electing demented bozo the clown presidents. Why? This writer has a theory.
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You’ve probably heard the phrase, “the lottery is a tax on people who can’t do math.” It puts a nifty spin on probability and how much education we need on the subject. But there’s another aspect of big numbers and big odds that I like to think about, and that’s the wonderful world of coincidence.
“Hey! [...]
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Actual names of some of the lesser known moons of Saturn: Ymir, Paaliaq, Siarnaq, Tarvos, Kiviuq, Thrym, Erriapo, Albiorix. I learned this while visiting the European Space Agency site to see the latest photos from Titan.
Meanwhile, in a blow to intelligent life on earth, at least one person is already in line to see [...]
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My brother in Michigan has been praising Netflix for quite a while. It allows him to see all the movies that don’t make it to the Rex Theatre. Movies such as Little Otik never get to the Rex, but for him they will show up in the mail and he can watch them while he’s [...]
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Maggie found a link to this McSweeney’s humor: “George W. Bush Quotations in Which the Words “God” or “The Almighty” or “The Almighty God” Are Replaced by Famous Names Chosen at Random From the ’80s Edition of Trivial Pursuit. http://mcsweeneys.net/2005/1/3wanninger.html
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