Wes Phillips

Not that I had any idea what Sigur Ros' "Hoppipolla" was about (actually, I never know what any Sigur Ros song is about), but this video wouldn't have even made the top 20 possibilities.

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A cardboard listening "room." I'd call it a pod, myself, but in a small space like that surround sound probably is essential. I do dig the look of laminated construction, though.

Mutually agreed cooperation on the disputed NAS drive chassis (it's warm, it vibrates, and it's next to the monitor).

On my morning stroll through the intertubes, I hit Freakonomicshttp://www.freakonomics.com/blog/">Freakonomics;, as is my wont. Today, Stephen J. Dubner is raving about Jeff Henderson's Cooked. Henderson, the new executive chef at Cafe Bellagio, leaned to cook in prison, where he was incarcerated for dealing crack.

Alicia Zuckerman has a nice coda on Kurt Vonnegut over at the HufPo. She gets the final word on Vonnegut's epitaph because she actually asked him what he wanted it to be.

Observations:


a heap is formed


a streamer ejects


the outgoing jet rises


hits the incoming jet


ends the Kaye effect

Back in March, I posted a linkhttp://blog.stereophile.com/wesphillips//index4.html">link; to a Physics Web articlehttp://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/3/3/1">article; on iconic equations, which quoted Gauss' assertion that if Euler's formula wasn't immediately obvious, the reader probably has no chance at being a first-class mathematician.