Friday, July 31, 2009

And then 6 months later...

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Here is an amusing divorce entrance , the sequel to the really awesome wedding entrance I posted a few days ago. The wedding entrance is f...

Curiouser and Curiouser...

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Somerville College automatically blocks access to various websites for various reasons, and www.masonporter.com is being blocked because So...

Experimental Results Related to DNLS Equations

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The final version of this paper is actually over a year old, but it was just published as a book chapter in a monograph written by one of my...

Electromagnetic integral equations requiring small numbers of Krylov-subspace iterations

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I was looking at Cat's website, and I found the page proofs for this paper , which I believe is Lemming's first publication. Congra...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Dodgers acquire reliever George Sherrill

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The Dodgers have acquired reliever George Sherrill from the Orioles for two minor league prospects . Sherrill is a useful piece for our bul...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Journal Title of the Day

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Courtesy mini-AIR comes a pointer to the following article: "A Continuing Education Course For Physicians Who Cross Sexual Boundaries,...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Congratulations to Steve Van Hooser!

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Steve Van Hooser (Caltech, Lloyd House, class of 1998) has accepted a faculty position at Brandeis, which he'll be starting in July 2010...

$150,000 per song?

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Um, isn't $150,000 per song just a little bit steep a price for music piracy? (Tip of the cap to Christopher Voyce.)
Monday, July 27, 2009

Fail of the Day

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Um, this guy might want to wear his cap the way it was intended . Wow! (Tip of the cap to Rob Neyer.)
Friday, July 24, 2009

"I want to boot some head, too."

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I just watched a few videos on YouTube related to the two skits by The Frantics in which heads get booted. First, here is a pretty amusing W...

Best. Wedding entrance. Ever.

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This wedding entrance is just awesome. Wow! I guess there's nowhere to go but down. (Tip of the cap to Jimmy Lin.)
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Mark Buehrle pitches perfect game!

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Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle pitched the 17th regular season perfect game in Major League history . (There has also been one post...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

RIP Gidget the Taco Bell dog (1994-2009)

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The celebrity world has taken a major hit today, as the dog from the Taco Bell commercials (whose name in real life is Gidget) died of a st...

Weirdest baseball exhibition game ever?

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Back in the day (in 1926), there was an exhibition game between a KKK baseball team and a Jewish team . Apparently, it also turned pretty u...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Headline: Derek Jeter makes easy play look easy

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According to an earth-shattering news report from that respected source known as The Onion , I can now reveal that recently Derek Jeter made...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Nature versus Science

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It's not quite the epic battle of ninjas versus pirates or even pirates versus ninjas, but there is at least some pizzazz to the battle ...

Best. Press Release. Ever.

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I thought this was a joke when I first read it, but apparently this is a real press release . The money quote comes at the end of the press...

Name of my New Computer

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Unless somebody changes my mind quickly, I have just decided to name my new computer "Trefoil" (well, technically for the current ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Pictures from Sevilla trip

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Here are a bunch of pictures from my Sevilla trip .

More from Sevilla

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I am sitting in the air-conditioned hotel lobby. I will shortly be calling a cab to go to the airport. Here are some more things to report...