A Little Known Fact
Frightening Christmas lizards are the only known predator of white-chocolate coated pretzels.
Ubiquity
10 yrs ago, an employee had to pull strings to get Texaco Ts for the Rice MOB trumpet section — now they’re at Old Navy for anyone to purchase.
Wreath (of Khan?)
Random recommendation for you (totally not related to the picture up above, but whatevs):
Went to the Four Seasons Market in Garland on Saturday, and was thoroughly impressed! (Deets: Saturdays, 9-’til, at the park at Firewheel Town Center). It was smallish, but great. And not only in that “good for Garland, Texas” kind-of way.
(BTW – I’ve upgraded my blog to the latest WordPress. Hopefully this means that my blog and Posterous will now get along, and Posterous will stop posting the same content over and over again. The problem? Turns out WordPress before 2.8 wasn’t giving Posterous the satisfaction of a SUCCESS message, and Posterous was making like John Cusack in “16 Candles”.)
Can’t Tell Me Nothing
via wwtdd.com
Just got off the phone with my fiancee, who is loving life in her new apartment in Fremont.
It must be a fabulous place, full of tolerance and unicorns. Yes I’m jealous: even her testimonials sound delicious:
“Oh, there’s a crepe place I can walk to!”
“Oh, there’s a Peet’s Coffee and Tea in my kitchen!”
“I can see the ocean from deck!”
“I waved to a pirate captain as he sailed by!”
“My work will pick me up outside my front door and drive me across a beautiful lake full of angels’ tears and through the forest of the Ents to the most wonderful corporate work environment where I get to play on fluffy clouds all day long!”
The only appropriate response I can think of? Kanye.
How to Eat a Chicken Wing [via foodwishes.com]
Just because I have fried chicken on my mind, here’s a video of the correct way to eat a chicken wing.
I don’t know what’s more amazing. The fact that we all don’t do this now, or the fact that he’s talking about pastrami wings (with Russian dressing). Whoa. Here’s the link to foodwishes.com’s recipe for those.
Fried Chicken Bucket Processes
Some of you might be familiar with my fascination with the recent spate of hilariously-named, yet awesomely-powerful generative models, such as The Chinese Restaurant Process or The Indian Buffet Process, etc.
Here’s a new one for you. Adam Lopez shared this paper on Facebook, and it’s way too good not to give wider distribution.