Monthly Archives: September 2007

Easterbrooked

September 28, 2007 – 7:45 am

Gregg Easterbrook is a… well, journalist is a bit strong, so let’s go with writer. His main topics seem to be religion, football (the sort played with Americans, not feet) and popular culture/economics/politics. His sports column, Tuesday Morning Quarterback, appears each week at ESPN (I’ll let you work out what day it’s published on). It’s [...]

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Sunfish

September 27, 2007 – 8:28 am

I’ve seen a couple of documentaries recently that mention Ocean Sunfish, seriously huge fish prone to parasitic infection. They deal with this by going to special cleaning stations where smaller fish pick the parasites off. So ordered is this behaviour that the sunfish line up and wait their turn for a cleaning. As impressive as [...]

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Low-Level Smiting

September 26, 2007 – 10:39 am

Almost every day for over 3 weeks I’ve driven through the same set of temporary traffic lights due to some roadworks. That’s at least 36 trips through these lights. I would guess that there’s a 60% chance of hitting the light on red (50:50, minus the time when both sides are red to allow traffic [...]

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Hiro’s

September 25, 2007 – 11:06 am

Proof, yet again, that some people are just more talented than you or I. Masi Oka, who plays Hiro on Heroes (and is my favourite character) also works for ILM. Amongst other things he’s (jointly) responsible for the coding that generated the water in the film The Perfect Storm. Oh, and he’s also a black [...]

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Acoustic

September 24, 2007 – 8:24 am

It’s Monday. Here’s something to get you started.

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