Phooeyhoo http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/ A rather sad commentary on our lives. en Copyright 2009 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:54:06 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Need Something on the Front Page of this Thing You know you have been doing the web logging lately when there are no more posts left on the homepage due to inactivity.

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/11/17/#001191 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/11/17/#001191 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:54:06 -0500 Oh, Weddings So my friend Wilderness is getting married at the end of April and his wedding invitation contained an innocuous question: favorite song. Now, this is, at first glance, an innocuous question. For me, it should be obvious. My favorite band of all time is Simon and Garfunkel. My favorite Simon and Garfunkel song is The Boxer. Hence, that should be my favorite song. Yet, that question is insidious because you just can’t answer using the preceding methodology. One’s favorite song needs to tell everyone one’s musical sophistication and pretension (i.e. the listeners must at once be overwhelmed by the goodness of the music and stupidity for not having the same great taste of knowing that song) and cut across genres, moods, motifs, themes, and playlists. For example, I know what my favorite Simon and Garfunkel song is, my favorite Portland indie song, my favorite Beethoven piano sonata, but favorite song? Can it include opera arias? Vietnamese music? Musical scores from movies?

Anyway, since nobody reads this thing anymore, I am longer in shame of revealing my terrible taste in pop music and so, until Wilderness’s wedding, I shall be generating lists and trying to choose a worthy yet pretentious song as a non-bias point estimate of my favorite song. Incidentally, I started off with 10 songs for Wilderness’s Wedding (i.e. 10 songs having to do with l’amore (which, incidentally isn’t the same as the top 10 songs I would want played at my wedding) and had a really hard time populating it while the Top 10 Songs for breaking up was done in about 10 minutes.

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/03/29/#001190 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/03/29/#001190 La Musique Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:58:19 -0500 WWC Podcast 2: Hot and Sour Soup So here's the 2nd WWC podcast. A little better this time and much more banter! Oh, genetic epistemology!

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/02/20/#001189 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/02/20/#001189 Cooking! Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:20:26 -0500 Oh, Projects that Never Get off the Ground! So, Dave and I have been talking about doing a podcast for WWC for the longest time. Thankfully, sheer laziness has saved the world.

Lodge and I, however, seem to have plenty of free time these days. Hence, the first WWC podcast! Like the first episode of anything, this one is riddled with errors (forgot the garlic!) and we'll probably nervously change the subject when speaking of it years from now. That being said, enjoy!

Note: Note: Full recipe available at http://www.phooeyhoo.com/cookbook/ginger_shrimp.pdf and full WWC cookbook available at http://www.phooeyhoo.com/cookbook.

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/02/11/#001188 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/02/11/#001188 Cooking! Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:22:07 -0500 Attention Raleigh Drivers ... ... for the love of God, please turn off your brights!!!

That is all.

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/02/09/#001187 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/02/09/#001187 Caviling Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:14:33 -0500 Snowtoro!!! Oh, dear God. This is the cutest thing ever! Thanks, Sho

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/01/07/#001186 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/01/07/#001186 Soooooo Cute! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:12:56 -0500 Six More Days and I Wonder ... ... why aren't I on a road trip in Spain with Mario Batali, Mark Bittman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Claudia Bassols?

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/01/06/#001185 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/01/06/#001185 Caviling Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:27:01 -0500 Seven Days Left ... ... of comprehensive exam hell for me. With one week to go I can honestly say that the act of going through a Ph.D. program is something that no normal sane human being should ever want to subject themselves to. It's like volunteering to jump through a series of flaming hoops, each one more fiery and dangerous than the last. Did I mention that it's all self imposed as well? And that the rewards are minuscule and don't even translate into more financial gain? That if anything, you're losing money because you're not making money during the best money making years of your life?

So what great insights on educational research, learning theories, educational psychology, epistemological and ontological realty, or hierarchical linear modeling did I have today? None, only that the Beethoven opus 133, the so called grosse fugue may possibly be the greatest thing ever written. More tomorrow night.

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/01/05/#001184 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2009/01/05/#001184 Caviling Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:47:05 -0500 Harambee! Harambee!

That is all!

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/12/31/#001183 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/12/31/#001183 Hilarious! Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:32:16 -0500 Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights? Because the United States of America, only fifty years removed from the civil rights movement and 143 years removed from slavery, has elected a black man to be its next president. I am stunned, awed, and proud. And to think that only two years ago I told Nicole that I did not believe a non-white male would be president during our lifetimes.

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/11/05/#001181 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/11/05/#001181 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:09:14 -0500 Two Things 1. God still hates the Cubs.

2. The election is as good as over as Barack Obama has captured the only demographic that has eluded him: the pretentious insouciant well-educated liberal east coast vote. Huzzah! Onward to victory, my friends, onward to victory! Oh, wait. Ginny just reminded me of this. Hooey I say! Our 95 percent confidence intervals will lead us to victory!

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/10/05/#001169 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/10/05/#001169 Baseball Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:25:56 -0500 Just Another Fact to Consider Thus, chicken displays may be a useful tool in identifying those with manic psychosis. However, the results suggest a complex process of chicken imitation formation. Female psychotics produce more displays than their NC-State female peers, but male psychotics produce poorer (more disorganized?) displays than NC-state males. Thus, different variables will be needed to identify male and female psychotics….

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/12/#001168 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/12/#001168 Oh, Dear Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:35:06 -0500 Rogé Federé In the words of Andy Roddick:

"Yeah, I mean, the guy has only made two Grand Slam finals this year. I would love his bad year. I would love it. It would be great. I'd be really happy with right now."


]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/08/#001167 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/08/#001167 Sports! Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:29:18 -0500 Hanna No, not Hannah May- .... never mind. I'm not even going to entertain that. (Besides, one has an "H" and the other doesn't.) I'm talking about my first hurricane: Hurricane Hanna (now downgraded to Tropical Storm status) which is due to hit the southern North Carolina Coast at 2 AM and then roll into Raleigh before noon. 50 mph winds are the estimate in this area which I think are actually slightly less than the top minds from the '96 Oregon storm.

Update: Well, that was a letdown. I think we may have gotten a few showers this morning but that's it. Back to work, I guess!

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/05/#001166 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/05/#001166 The Terrifying World of Nature Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:17 -0500 Vijay Wins Again So having used Chrome for one hour I think it may have just replaced Firefox. It's faster, seems just as good, and doesn't crash my PDFs. If Google lives up to their word of one tab crashing not causing the other tabs to crash, I think Firefox is out and Google and Vijay's blue pastoral colors win again.

]]> http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/02/#001165 http://www.phooeyhoo.com/weblog/archives/2008/09/02/#001165 Hmm ... Shiny ... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:47:30 -0500