general Crossing things off my list

Posted April 20, 2006 • Comments Off on Crossing things off my list

I have a list. It’s a long list, though it isn’t supposed to be, and even though I’m on my third Palm PDA, I still keep it on paper. I’m a little ashamed.

Tonight I will cross off at least half of it. Most of it is things I notice online while I’m at work but can’t really deal with until I get home. Sometimes it’s things I want to blog. One of the items on it is “Blog the card behind this page.”

Said card is covered in arithmetic. I saw that Sony has a 32“ widescreen Bravia LCD TV (the 32U100M) for under a grand, and that seemed interesting, so I decided to figure out the increase in area between my existing 27” set and a 32“ widescreen.

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Any child who professes that junior-high math is something they’ll never need in real life should be reminded of this type of thing. This is a word problem. This is algebra. And I use it all the time.

Behind the card is this sidebar from The Economist about the cherry blossoms. I was aware they celebrate the coming of spring in Japan in much the same way they do in Washington—namely, with cameras, documenting the exact sameness of this year’s cherry blossoms as compared to those of prior years—but I was not aware they do it while drinking.

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I document this … uh, document … mostly for the phrase ”Open a Bud beneath the opening buds.“ Love it.