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- Mitch Hedberg - An influence of Demetri Martin, who is pretty damn good
- Richard Pryor - Chuck and I were talking about PR and I brought up how the positive spin that PR folks put on the face-burning thing was that it was free-base related.
- Richard Parker - Reading this makes me want to read Life of Pi. I desire to understand my own personal Richard Parker.
- Mos Def - I smashed it like it was an Idaho potato.
- Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco - 420.
- Hartless Bastards - Coming to the cradle. The lead girl looks kind of like Beth Gibbons, so I wanted to check if it was.
- B battery (vacuum tubes) - Not as common anymore because when you say it people think you have a stutter.
- A battery (vacuum tubes) -
- Dime
- Proof Coinage
- United States one hundred-dollar bill
- Large denominations of United States currency
- Salmon P. Chase - This guy seemed to really understand money
- Energy Drink - people keep asking for them at the cradle.
- Redline (drink) - particularly potent.
- United States five-dollar bill - In addition to the proof dime, I also found a five-dollar note.
- Flowerpot Island
- Year 2000 problem - thinking about Office Space
- James Bond - don’t remember why I was thinking of this. Since seeing Casino Royale, I’ve had little vacation-style bond fantasies. Say what you will about the guy, he does end up in some picturesque places.
- Casino Royale (2006 film) -
- Office Space - saw some at the Cradle
- Epilepsy
- Wisconsin card sort
- Santa Fe Institute - Renowned research facility for complex systems. Kind of a dream job.
- Nicholas Metropolis - Monte Carlo method
- Melanie Mitchell - One of the most influential authors of my life
- John Henry Holland - Father of genetic algorithms
- Theldrow - an old mac computer game
- Physical Graffiti - The next few… I’m not so proud of, but you can see the click trail pretty obviously
- Led Zeppelin IV -
- Aleister Crowley -
- Seal of Solomon -
- Lust for Life (song) - Possible Rho Band song
- God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song) - ditto
- Richard Branson - This guy fascinates me.
- Michael Richards - The fourth “Richard” on the list. What’s up?
- Portishead - When is their next album coming out? This year some time (supposedly); I hope someone tells me.
- Blur (band) - Boys and Girls came on the iPod…
- Ben Folds - …then a Ben Folds Five song.
- Aphasia - I had always called it “aphonia”, but I think this is more accurate
- Dysphasia - the term has fallen out of favor as it is too easily mistaken for “dysphagia”
- Led Zeppelin - the song remains the lame
- Kuru (disease) - prions are scary. real scary. Still, to fully understand them could lead to powerful applications.
- Sickle-cell disease - do sickle-cells transmogrify neighboring cells to also be sickles?
- Prion
- Skiffle - “It’s not a skiffle band!”
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