Things Heard: e167v5

Good morning.

1. Mostly, I think, fugly. However, just under 20 years ago … (true story) my mom volunteered to knit me a sweater and asked me to pick a design. I went with this, from a Sci-Am cover. It was much envied in the solid state physics dept (I was a grad student at the time albeit in a different group). She (my mom) said “never again.” Apparently aperiodic designs are not optimal for knitting. Hmmm.
2. Well, having had a long conversation over 8mpg cars … it seems the President doesn’t (either) learn or read my blog (surprise!). It also seems he can be something of a jerk. In that last conversation, … I had let the assertion that the Hummer H2 was a 8mpg car. According to Wiki … it isn’t. So, that means while the President repeats his rhetoric about 8mpg cars, you mostly likely won’t see a single one this month during your commute. It might be that you’ve never ever seen one. (Apparently there are 54 seater buses that get 8mpg … I (and the President) are talking about cars.
3. Someone thinks the “President can’t be that dumb.” We shall see, he’s just reached (and failed) his “let them eat cake moment.” (one more here).
4. Grace under pressure.
5. Learning and language.
6. No. You don’t learn science “by reading and memorization” you do it by apprenticeship, silly. Read your Polanyi, he’s got it right.
7. I’m not sure what the point is here. It’s economics. The reason for flares is that the price of methane is so low that it costs more to bring it to market than its worth. What are they advocating?
8. A summary of Constitutionality and the Libya kerfuffle.
9. Yah, but if you can’t make money, the town dies, duh.
10. The dishonestly of the recent abortion/budget kerfuffle. It might also be noted that the budget was due on Oct. 1, when the President and his party completly controlled Congress. Blaming the GOP House now is yet more Democrat dishonesty.
11. Wisconsin election news.
12. If this comes to pass … the justifications will be, uhm, interesting.
13. A book noted.

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