Borrowed from the podcast of “This American Life” #326. Full attribution is a good thing. Mystery Hunt @ MIT. New Puzzles keep coming. There are no instructions but there is an answer. However in real life, outside of MIT, most problems don’t have an answer. Thirteen and half straight hours, 30 straight hours. Dave tells… Continue reading I inform people against their will
Frontline: News War (Episode 2)
The subtitle to this whole episode should be Caged Heat: Reporters in Jail Reporters are more and more being coerced into revealing sources for the stories they file at their respective newspapers and networks. Two reporters at the San Francisco Chronicle broke a story about the steroid scandal at BALCO (Bay Area Lab Coop), a… Continue reading Frontline: News War (Episode 2)
Frontline: News War (Episode 1)
Judy Miller says she was only as good as her sources. That her sources mis-informed her, that she trusted them too much, trusted they wouldn’t mislead the the President. Knight-Ridder stood up as Clark Hoyt wrote that ‘nothing’ had changed in Iraq. They were no bigger threat now than they were 10-15 years ago. Eventually… Continue reading Frontline: News War (Episode 1)
Stack Based Computers
Stack based computers will be the next scripted podcast for Carpetbomberz Inc. If you don’t know what a stack-based computer is, do a Google search and apart from the Wikipedia entries on it, there’s some interesting ACM papers. For embedded CPUs that need hard real-time performance, it’s the only way to go. But what about… Continue reading Stack Based Computers
Podcast addendum – Bomb Run 021
After posting the show and listening to it some thoughts occured to me. Stuff I would have included if it wasn’t boring or made the show go too long would have included: References to the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research References to Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert’s book: Perceptrons The role of AI Research… Continue reading Podcast addendum – Bomb Run 021
Bomb Run – 021 Show Notes
Full show notes for the Carpet Bomberz Inc. podcast episode #21
I’ll only end up frustrated
I’m sad to announce that the three stores I tried had no 3.5 quart enameled cast iron pots from Le Creuset. I tried. I even stopped off at a the local special cooking store to see what they had in stock. They had a baby 2quart pot and a 2.5 quart pot (full reactive style… Continue reading I’ll only end up frustrated
America’s Test Kitchen Chili Recipe
http://www.panix.com/~clay/cookbook/ In Clay’s Kitchen introduced me to an important source of Cooking Knowledge. America’s Test Kitchen. And it was from this one little recipe that a whole world opened for me. I used to watch all the PBS cooking shows never once thinking I could pull off a top level recipe, but this one chili dish convinced me I could and should do it. Now I have invested in expensive bits of cookware, a Le Creuset dutch oven, an All Clad Fry pan. The rest the say is history.
Finally, a minor contribution
One of my favorite passtimes is to listen to a podcast called the Dawn and Drew Show. And let me tell you when you join their message board you begin the understand the value of Listener Generated Content. Adam Curry has benefited from this too with his podcast Daily Source Code. I’ve sent a few… Continue reading Finally, a minor contribution
Whatcha’ Gonna Do?!
music culture There was a time I rode the bus in Junior High School where the older black kids brought a boombox onto the bus. I didn’t have a choice but to listen. However I got so used to it being there I didn’t know I would miss it. Work yo’ body, work yo’ body,… Continue reading Whatcha’ Gonna Do?!
