For what it’s worth, the RIAA has compiled a list of top artists in music, based on total all-time U.S. album sales.
Jazz waltzes, and celebrities with elbows for chins
It all makes sense, sort of. It’s my latest new song, “Waltz for Reese (Elbow Chin),” and an incomplete, rough mix of it is now available on the Highway 34 Revisited album page.
As if it weren’t bad enough that I got beat at Wii Sports bowling by a four-year-old (twice)…
Here’s a robot built out of Legos that bowled a perfect game!
(And, OK, technically my son was still three the first time he beat me.)
Wow, I’m a reference in an O’Reilly code sample!
That’s not Bill O’Reilly, thank you very much, but O’Reilly, the much-lauded publisher of technology reference books.
Doing a bit of narcissistic “googling,” I discovered that my site appears in the sample code in an article O’Reilly published on their xml.com website on the topic of hacking iTunes. Cool!
On a less random (and ultimately more satisfying note), I also discovered that my Coltrane thesis was cited in an academic book called Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists. Wow!
What’s the smallest unit of currency you’d pick up from an undesirable location?
Yesterday, in the men’s room at my office, I noticed a penny on the floor directly under one of the urinals. I should note that, for some reason best left unexplained, there’s always a small puddle of something on the floor under the urinals. (Apparently someone has chronic bad aim.)
There was no chance in hell I was going to pick that penny up! But it got me thinking, what is the smallest unit of currency I would pick up from that location, assuming it required me to touch it with my bare hands? I pondered for a minute and decided with confidence that a five dollar bill would be the minimum value for which I would subject myself to the sub-urinal horrors.
What about you?