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[Bobby Isosceles]

i don't think I'm a stereotype

and I just noticed this:  Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 65470

that seems kinda close to the limit for a short integer whatever that is in various programming languages

um..  that seems like you must have cheated. 

since cans can go negative, a short would cover -32768 to 32767 . an UNSIGNED short would cover 0 to 65535 but that doesnt apply here

a long word would hold a much larger range, in the billions (again depending on signage)


in other news, bubblesort is how i beat that color matching test



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computer science

[Bobby Isosceles]

?

I was just talking with A Cap last night about how  I need to make my own sockpuppet, but no one I can make would be as entertaining as the unfilitered me.

[wombat]

It's adorable!

[AugustWest]

Hey, did anybody else watch AB's 10th Anniversary show? 

That guy looks a lot like a yeast.

[jaydub]

Alton Brown?

He looks rather cephalic for a yeast.  Maybe an evolved, multicellular colony of them?

[AugustWest]

Yeasts.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Hey, did anybody else watch AB's 10th Anniversary show? 

That guy looks a lot like a yeast.

I watched it, and said "This is incredibly stupid and embarrassing" for about half of it.  And yet I watched the whole thing.

I'm thinking Sifl & Olly, myself.

[CortJstr]

I watched it, and said "This is incredibly stupid and embarrassing" for about half of it.  And yet I watched the whole thing.

I'm thinking Sifl & Olly, myself.

It's on my Tivo waiting to be watched. Now I'm apprehensive.

[AugustWest]

I watched it, and said "This is incredibly stupid and embarrassing" for about half of it.  And yet I watched the whole thing.

I'm thinking Sifl & Olly, myself.

Yeah, it wasn't great, but it did have both W and Shirley Corriher.

[wombat]

I missed this. I guess telling the DVR to record all new episodes of Good Eats wasn't good enough.

I did hear him on NPR saying he'd lost 50 pounds mostly just by giving up milk because if you can't have milk you don't want to eat cookies. It sounds simple, but I guess lots of forms of torture are simple.

[smick]

Some weird logic about why high unemployment is a positive thing.

Hey man.   I'm just passing on what Oregon told me to tell you.   I told it about your post and it said "Seriously.  No.  Has he tried Boise, Idaho?"

So...maybe check there.

[bluemoon72]

He was interviewed in the Onion AV Club this past week http://www.avclub.com/articles/alton-brown%2C33872/(note: story seems to be temporarily down), and sounded exceptionally bitter about his self-imposed new diet (almonds, fruit smoothies, and sardines, for those who do not wish to read the article). He also came off as way more of a douche than usual in this interview (his"usual" ranging from warm, open, and generally wonderful in his "Feasting On" specials, and "really douchy" in some episodes of Iron Chef America). 

A personal twitch happened when he mentioned that America has gotten too religiously heterogenous over the past few decades.  I...ugh.  Don't even want to go there.  Okay, I am going there.  Born-again Christianity is fabulous, I'm sure, and I am sure he'd love others to be as fabulously happy as he is, but come on.  While I'm sure it's part of the born-again terms of agreement that one must work to get everyone to believe the same new beliefs, there's room for all 304,059,724 forms of religion in this country (I personally counted).  (No I didn't.) 

[wombat]

He was interviewed in the Onion AV Club this past week http://www.avclub.com/articles/alton-brown%2C33872/(note: story seems to be temporarily down), and sounded exceptionally bitter about his self-imposed new diet (almonds, fruit smoothies, and sardines, for those who do not wish to read the article). He also came off as way more of a douche than usual in this interview

Well, I'd be cranky too, on that diet.

Also: very interesting interview, thanks for the link. I have to stop forgetting to read the AV Club since they stopped printing The Onion on paper around here.

[JorgeFabregas]

He was interviewed in the Onion AV Club this past week http://www.avclub.com/articles/alton-brown%2C33872/(note: story seems to be temporarily down), and sounded exceptionally bitter about his self-imposed new diet (almonds, fruit smoothies, and sardines, for those who do not wish to read the article). He also came off as way more of a douche than usual in this interview (his"usual" ranging from warm, open, and generally wonderful in his "Feasting On" specials, and "really douchy" in some episodes of Iron Chef America). 

A personal twitch happened when he mentioned that America has gotten too religiously heterogenous over the past few decades.  I...ugh.  Don't even want to go there.  Okay, I am going there.  Born-again Christianity is fabulous, I'm sure, and I am sure he'd love others to be as fabulously happy as he is, but come on.  While I'm sure it's part of the born-again terms of agreement that one must work to get everyone to believe the same new beliefs, there's room for all 304,059,724 forms of religion in this country (I personally counted).  (No I didn't.) 

Really? I don't think that's what he said. He seems to have nostalgia for simpler times, but he seems to be describing rather than decrying:

AVC: So has the foodie explosion made home cooking more or less accessible for beginner cooks?

AB: I think it’s made it harder, because I think that the foodie culture comes with a bit of snobism and elitism. It’s like the whole slow-foods thing. I still don’t know what the heck that’s about. Food’s either good or it’s bad. I think that anything that striates food or puts it into categories tends to intimidate people. I’d still rather have my wife’s Thursday-night spaghetti than the fancy blah-blah-blah from the Charlie Trotter cookbook. But that’s just my taste. But I don’t think that foodie-ism has made it easier for beginner cooks. Because you know what it does? It’s pushed the family cookbook off the shelf and it’s made food more about jumping through hoops; expensive, hard-to-find ingredients; and processes that are over a lot of people’s heads. So I think a lot of that stuff has gotten in the way of good home cooking.

AVC: You’ve said you conceived Good Eats because you wanted a cooking show that wasn’t boring.

AB: But I also wanted it to be accessible. I wanted the food to be stuff that everybody can do. There’s never been a Good Eats recipe or application that could not be done with anybody with half a mind and two hands.

AVC: But it seems that food as entertainment is huge today: Iron Chef, Top Chef, Hell’s Kitchen, No Reservations, the Food Network as a whole. Where do you think this trend of watching food came from?

AB: I think it comes from the fact that we live in a constantly fracturing culture. You know, when I was a kid, there were three networks, and people had more in common on the streets. Let’s put it this way: We had more in common than not in common. Well, one of the things about the Internet and the culture that’s come out of the Internet is that it’s made people cluster into micro-communities. We’ve become hive-minded. We’ll gather with four people who have something obscure in common with us, like “I macramé squirrels!” or something that’s far less appealing than that. We’ve lost a lot of our commonality. We don’t believe in the same religious aspects in this country anymore, we are more fractioned from a political standpoint. Just the fact that we have 600 channels fractions us even further.

But we crave commonality, and when you talk to anthropologists about this subject, they’ll tell you no matter where you go on planet Earth, no matter how obscure the tribe, no matter how remote the village, there are two things that everybody wants to do in a group: One of them is laugh. The other one is eat. Food is the last thing we have in common with each other, and we crave it. If you think about it, the words “communicate,” “communion,” “communal,” “commune,” all come from the basic root word for “common,” which just simply means to make one, to make common. We crave it. And I think that one of the reasons Food Network tends to be more popular—besides the fact that we’re family-friendly, relatively smart, good clean entertainment—is that we help with the commonality. We need to have something in common with each other, and food’s it.

It can also make for fantastic spectacle. And passions, and experiences. It’s the switchboard of life, food is. That’s how I see it, at least. And I think that explains the phenomenon, if it is a phenomenon. I mean, I look at it and it doesn’t seem like a phenomenon, because I look at food and say, “Of course, it’s infinitely interesting.” Everything connects through it; there is no food story I don’t find fascinating. But I don’t consider myself a foodie, I’m not. I don’t get all frothed up about this season’s Spanish saffron fad. I get more frothed up about flying airplanes than I do about cooking. But what I do like is that I can cook and feed my family and be self-reliant. And I enjoy that, but I can’t get that excited about it. There are a lot more things in life than eating. And I don’t spend that much time cooking. I cook smart, I cook fast, I get on with it.

[bluemoon72]

Really? I don't think that's what he said. He seems to have nostalgia for simpler times, but he seems to be describing rather than decrying:

Hmm, I'm definitely willing to give the benefit of the doubt, but to me,

We don’t believe in the same religious aspects in this country anymore

and

there were three networks, and people had more in common on the streets

seems to reek of "we were all good Christians together once, and now all y'all are just a bunch of freaks.  Oh, and things were much better when the mainstream media...the ONLY media, in fact...put forth the quality ideas and opinions of quality white middle- to upper-class males and that's the way it should continue to be."

Or, perhaps I'm reading too much into a (real) interview in a (fake) newspaper.