the film starts slow... insanity at ~2:15
JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.
looking for a coffin for your child to play with?
its raining a little bit:
Anyone else interested in doing Health Month in December? I've got a few sponsorship chips that I can use if anyone wants to play with more than 3 rules.
Also, I wrote a short paper on my work at Baltimore Heritage for the American Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore last month. It is a reasonably quick read if you're interested.
90 minute chat between Stephen Colbert and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.
Happy Day After Thanksgiving!
I didn't participate in any thanksgiving gluteny this year, but I was still thankful for many things including my partymode buddies. Hope you all had an excellent feast and day with your close ones.
Also, I am back from India! I've been back for a couple days actually, but this is my first post since returning.
Happily I get to make this a friday music post. Tunes in the replies.
Both DEFCON and Multiwinia are available in the current Humble Bundle from Introversion. Anyone else else thinking of buying?
Five silent philosophers sit at a table around a bowl of spaghetti. A fork is placed between each pair of adjacent philosophers.
Each philosopher must alternately think and eat. Eating is not limited by the amount of spaghetti left: assume an infinite supply. However, a philosopher can only eat while holding both the fork to the left and the fork to the right (an alternative problem formulation uses rice and chopsticks instead of spaghetti and forks).
Each philosopher can pick up an adjacent fork, when available, and put it down, when holding it. These are separate actions: forks must be picked up and put down one by one.
The problem is how to design a discipline of behavior (a concurrent algorithm) such that each philosopher won't starve, i.e. can forever continue to alternate between eating and thinking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem
Probably too late for anyone to see this, but I have been watching the US National Starcraft Championships all day. It is awesome.
http://pro.majorleaguegaming.com/
I don't know a ton about SC2, but it really sucks you in. The final is 5pm EST, but there are 8 players still in so a few matches left. There are still 4 non koreans in as well somehow.
esports!
I had forgotten about the various hulks on twitter. Then I came across this epic review of the new twilight movie by film crit hulk.
http://badassdigest.com/2011/11/17/film-crit-hulk-smash-hulk-vs-twilight/
holy shit, the level of analysis going on here is amazing, especially considering it is in all caps.
this question on metafilter is ;(
http://ask.metafilter.com/201355/Help-me-make-a-Thanksgiving-dinner-for-one
my answer (3 years ago?): microwave burrito.
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pittsburgh.mode, i'm in town starting tomorrow through sunday after thanksgiving. hope to sees youz!