Disclaimer: I wrote this entry over a month ago, and only just got to it.
Today, while I was with a subset of Glee Club singing for a bunch of rich doctors, Tom and Danny went to see Randall Munroe speak about things at MIT and then got to get things signed by him. Rather than having a “sign, move, sign, move” approach to things, he actually took the time to speak to everyone a little bit. Tom and Danny were thoughtful enough to print out a copy of the first blog in this series and bring it to him to have it signed. Just to be certain, Tom asked him if the graphs really were unrelated, and Randall responded as follows; “There is lots of data in the world.” (I won’t go on about this, but I really do think this is some of the most important data in the world; it shows we don’t know anything about the universe. That’s all.)
So that’s that. I include a picture in hopefully the most meta moment of my series of blog entries (I can’t speak for the rest of the room):
Two mildly related things.
1) Yesterday, I reviewed my physics textbook while walking 2.3 mph on a treadmill. It worked out very well.
2) On the way back from the reception that we sang out, I ate about a meal and a half worth of hors d’oeuvres and am now about to birth a food baby. Also, it seems the trick to pronouncing things in French is to ignore all the consonants.