And remember to keep your bung clean.
Author: Aaron Weber
Bricolage
Bricolage is the way to do it these days. And for serious mixtures of things that you’d never imagine together, for something that creates an incredible whole out of disparate samples, listen to Girl Talk’s new album Night Ripper. I think I just heard him fade a Nirvana bassline into an Elton John sample which he then overlaid with Biz Markee.
Pimping
Starting the day with rosé sparkling wine (you know I’d love to say Champagne or Cava, but I’m just too strict about the international WTO naming rules for DOC products to do that) at Gloria Ferrer.
Red Sox Illnesses Doping Related?
All these illnesses in our star players… has anyone bothered to ask if perhaps they could be caused by doping?
Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the state of pro sports, but when I see an athlete get sick, I immediately assume it’s a side effect of whatever illicit juice they’re using.
Liquids, gels, and aerosols on a plane
Last week I was sitting around with some people in a bar in San Francsico and we were trying to figure out the TSA’s regulations on things on planes.
Snakes are OK, as we know. Solid foods are OK. Laptops are OK, except Dell and Apple laptops on Quantas and Virgin (this because of the Sony batteries that some, but not all, models use).
But what about sort of intermediate things? What about gummi worms or avant-garde culinary foams? I can’t take a can of shaving cream with me, but could I squirt it into a bag and take that? What about oranges? If I take an orange into the screening area, and then juice it, does it suddenly become prohibited? It’s manifestly the same thing, but it’s changed phase to a prohibited phase. Same with ice, really. Since solids are OK but liquids are not, could I bring a bottle of ice onto the plane and let it melt so I could drink it? Would an icee or slurpee be acceptable, or does that count as a liquid?
Crucial issues here, folks.
A series of tubes
Om Malik, Sebastien Ripley, John Dvorak, and I discuss some current topics. And I get a word in edgewise. Maybe even two.
(Update 8PM: The video now works)
Notes from Napa
The PT Cruiser is capacious and comfortable but obviously an American car built on an SUV platform: it has the lines, the turning radius, the handling, and the fuel economy of a small yacht).
Beginning a day with champagne is wonderful.
Bookdwarf, as I knew, is a better driver and a better drinker than I am.
TSA Announcement
Have a look at the TSA list of what you can bring on planes.
You may not bring onto a plane: lip gloss, mascara, water, or toothpaste.
You may bring: lipstick, contact lens supplies (if wearing contacts) baby food (if wearing baby), and… KY Jelly?
(Snakes not listed.)
College Rankings
Everyone who thinks about colleges knows about the US News & World Report College Rankings. Maybe they’re fair, maybe they’re not. Slate accused them of fiddling with their criteria to make the numbers change more often than they otherwise would.
Washington Monthly has a different list, rating colleges as measures of social mobility: who helps the most poor kids get good jobs? Whose students are more likely to be working in public service or for the public good? That kind of thing. The results are quite interesting.
It may be against the rules of good blogging to post a link to the Times with little or no commentary, but…
According to a new survey, Americans are increasingly able to tell their own anuses from a hole in the ground.
