Latest manifestation of unusual food item…
Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwich-flavored Pringles.
(Pause for effect.)
Okay this is just too much.
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Back to the old unscripted format for this week’s episode of Math and Musings. Check it out here.
I’m 39 years old, which means I’ve been a legal adult for more than two decades.
All this time I’ve lived in a society which promises, among other things, a jury of one’s peers.
I’ve never been judged by such an organization…
and I still have never served on one.
Yup, dodged a bullet yesterday when my scheduled service was called off. I’d gotten notification the previous evening via a recorded line and a message that was sweeter than any Wayde Byard school cancellation I’d ever received.
My no-jury service streak remains intact for another mysterious number of years. Apparently there’s some kind of citizen rotation in these things but I still haven’t figured it out.
Let the record show I am philosophically opposed to mandatory participation in juries. Same reason I’m opposed to the military draft, and the same reason I’m opposed to conscripting anyone into any line of work. As far as I’m concerned the county can pay professional jurors to sit full-time and actually get good at it. Like the way that every other job in the world gets filled. It’s called the free market.
Man, I didn’t even get to pull that card.
Maybe next time.
Beautiful thing about living in 2021…
blogging from the beach.
Beautiful thing about being at the beach…
not wasting precious beach time blogging.
In our ongoing quest to find new and unusual snack items, my son and I have discovered ketchup-flavored Pringles.
Not a misprint. Not a gag.
Currently available only in Canada, with the right connections (i.e. this thing called Amazon) one can get them shipped to the States.
The question for our society is… is this a new high or a new low?
Like most people in the world I watched In the Heights this past weekend. Watched it from the comfort of my home, which I guess at this point says more about me than about the state of the world.
In the Heights has one of those incredible Hollywood backstories–a movie two decades in the making. Its author, Lin-Manuel Miranda (that’s the Hamilton guy), wrote the first draft of what would become the stage musical when he was a sophomore at Wesleyan University. This was 1999. The following year a Wesleyan student theatre group put on the show, a one-act version that was, according to reviews of the time, “a hip-hop version of Rent.” Obviously no one had seen Hamilton yet and didn’t know this would be the style 20 years later. Reworked for trials in Connecticut in 2005, then produced off-Broadway in 2007 before making it to the Great White Way in 2008. Then there was Hamilton, so now Miranda can do whatever he wants. If that includes dusting off an old show I say go for it, because damn this one is good too. If you liked Hamilton you’ll like In the Heights. Which is like saying if you enjoy breathing you’ll like In the Heights.
Lin-Manuel, you got any more old shows lying around?
Please?
Like Santa Claus showing up in summer, musical idols of my youth, Weezer, dropped a surprise (to me, anyway) single on Friday, this after two full-length albums so far this year. (Yeah, that’s like Santa in January, May, and June.) OK Human, Van Weezer, and now “Tell Me What You Want” have all made me smile, and yes, made me feel 11 years old again.
Is it 1993? Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo says the band is “back to big guitars,” and that their new work is “Blue Album-ish, but a little more riffy.” Yes, riffy is what I want. Their music is popping up everywhere again… movies, TV shows, and soon the band will be back on the road (God willing) for its long-delayed Hella Mega Tour with fellow ’90s/’00s mega-bands Green Day and Fall Out Boy.
Somebody pinch me.
And new music?
“Got four folders going in Dropbox,” says Cuomo.
Heaven can wait.
When I was a kid there was always one given on the last day of school. Your math teacher would let you watch the classic Disney production, Donald in Mathmagic Land.
Watch it? This was no small thing. Step one: procure VHS tape of said film. Step two: wheel television down from the “AV room” on its cart. Gotta be one with a VCR too. Step three: hope to God the VCR works and doesn’t just flash “12:00” at you and laugh. Step four: watch said tape. And remember to rewind.
Nowadays it’s much easier. Search the thing up on youtube and you’re watching it on any screen you like, basically for free. But you’ve still got to have a math teacher who’s willing to do it.
Guess who the math teacher is now?
You heard it here first: The island is the place to be.
With the Brooklyn Nets rolling, the Islanders poised to win their series, and the Mets (the Mets!) leading the NL East, more than ever “the island” is the place to be. They’ve always been the “other” New York sports teams… now they’re the vanguard of Big Apple sports.
Can a Jets Super Bowl be far behind?
Like a ruler dispensing gifts to his subjects, I present to thee the following donatives.
First, the standard birthday episode of Politics After Dark, available here at no charge.
And second, latest in the line of O’Connell side projects, my new podcast, Math and Musings, available here or wherever podcasts can be searched and found.
Subject?
Science, politics, news, opinion…
math and musings.
Hope you enjoy these, subjects!
Er, hope you enjoy these subjects.