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CELEBRITY RESEMBLANCE TRIANGULATION OF THE DAY: (Back after long absence and not exactly by popular demand.)
Subject: Jack Johnson.
And the vertices of this similitude scalene are:
OJ Simpson
Jeremy Piven
Val Kilmer (the eyes!!).
SIGN OF END TIMES OF THE DAY:
There was no line at Trader Joe’s
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT OF THE DAY:
Imagine a dog or a kid in New York City named Honk. Actually not the word "Honk" but the unspellable sound of a honk.
MORE INTERESTING THOUGHT EXPERIMENT OF THE DAY:
OK, so Monte Hall says you can pick door number 1, 2 or 3. There's a goat behind two of the doors and a new car behind the third. You pick a door and then he opens one of the two doors you did not select to reveal a goat standing behind it. Now he asks you: Would you like to swap the door you've selected for the remaining door. Every fiber in your being will insist that there is no benefit to swapping the door you've chosen for the one you're now being offered. That the revelation that a third door was not the winning door should have no possible impact on the relative likelihoods of either of the two remaining doors being right or wrong. And yet, in flagrant defiance of both one's intuition and one's sense of logic, it turns out that it is in fact in your interest to swap your selection for the other door. This is called the Monte Hall problem and it is a famous--and famously maddening-- probability problem.
OBSERVATIONS OF THE DAY:
a)
There is always a last time for everything.—although we are rarely blessed or cursed with knowing when it is happening.
b)
Dried plums taste an awful lot like prunes.
ENTERTAINING MEDICALLY RELATED ACTIVITIES OF THE DAY:
a) Proposed Social Event:
Blood pressure party. (Where everyone gets their blood pressure taken and then does various things to see if they can make it go up or down.)
b) New signature gesture.
Leaving Lipitors out on your desk like jelly beans in case anyone wants one.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I wish every day was Wednesday."
--d.b.
PROVOCATIVE MAGAZINE COVER OF THE DAY: (On this month's Atlantic Monthly)
Is Israel Finished?
DANGLING CLAUSE OF THE DAY:
And I say that with full respect for your thwarted heterosexuality.
SUCKY NEWS OF THE DAY:
I've rebroken my thumb in the exact same place as last time. On a nearly identical play. Strange to say, but my Achilles Heel is my thumb.
ALMOST COMPENSATORILY GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY:
I ended up getting the steal on that final play and our team won the game.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE DAY:
That if this post were a meal, it would be mostly condiments and dessert and lamentably little protein or vegetable.
COOLEST THING EVER OF THE DAY:
50 people spontaneously freeze for 5 minutes during rush hour in Grand Central Station--and then resume their activities as if nothing had happened. It's not just an interesting thought experiment. It's the work of Improv Everywhere (go to youtube.com and do a search for them)--a public performance art collective. Their carefully conceived and expertly executed interruptions of the ordinary are really inspired--ranging from 80 men and women showing up at a Best Buy in blue shits and khakis (the store worker uniform) and hence making it impossible to distinguish the employees from the customers to a musical about napkins that spontaneously breaks out in a food court to a 1 minute sequence of carefully choreographed events that loops for 5 minutes inside a Starbucks. Of course, the best part of the spectacles is the reaction of the onlookers--as they slowly adjust to this abrupt and extended undermining of their expectations--the emotions of perplexity, frustration, concern and delight legible on their faces. The performances range from the prankish to the poetic and I am personally more compelled by the ones (like the frozen people in GCT or the Groundhog's Day looping of events inside the Starbucks) that are less committed to the merely comedic than to the strangely beautiful or the metaphysically evocative.
P.S. TO THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE DAY:
I hope that last paragraph added at least a bit of tofu or broccoli to this nutritionally deficient post--perhaps even elevating it from mere snack to the most modest of meals.
RANDOM SINGLE SENTENCE PORTRAIT OF THE DAY:
He had simultaneously totally wasted his life and overachieved.
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Posted on 4/11/2008
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