There's no beating Judy's ham!
There's not much to say about this week's Glee. It's hard to stay with a timeline, as I can't find any point in this week's episode that specifically references an occurrence in the previous week's episode. There is a temporal clue, though, as we know that Finn is invited to the Fabrays' house for Sunday dinner. This does, of course, lead to more time-continuity issues, as Rachel appears to run into Susie Pepper in a restroom at school, immediately after dinner. That could be Monday morning, but then Rachel is wearing a different outfit before rehearsing with Mr. Schuester. Is that Tuesday? Let's be generous, and assume that some of this week's episode happened in parall

Back then, of course, if the fight lasted less than fifty rounds, we demanded our nickel back!
It's been a while since I put up trivia, and I've been stocking up on misses. Unfortunately, I've misplaced most of that stock, but here are a couple of the tougher ones from the last few weeks. Get these, and you too could be taking your local pub for a bottle of wine and a gift certificate every week. According to Mattel, what is Barbie's last name? Who is the only Major League Baseball player to hit a home run for both leagues in the All-Star Game? (Not in the same game, obviously) What African dog breed is also known as "The Barkless Dog?" What comedian introduced Johnny Carson as the new host of The Tonight Show

It's beginning to look a lot like...
WARNING: Minor Glee spoliers ahead. If you haven't watched this week's episode, you may want to come back tomorrow. Also, there's a spot where I link to a blog post that links back here, so you could get caught in a Recursive Internet Loop if you're not careful. Previously on Glee: The football team won its first game with three weeks left in the season, and then continued to practice for six more weeks. Meanwhile, Mr. Schuester announced that we were two weeks away from Sectionals, then led his merry band of singing, dancing teens through three weeks of mash-ups and throwdowns, all in preparation for the aforementioned Sectionals, which still haven't h

Why does it happen? Because it happens.
When I lived in Michigan, a friend of mine hosted Monday Night Football parties. I expect he still hosts them, I just don't live there anymore. Anyway, a bunch of guys would show up, and we'd spend the evening drinking beer and sort-of watching the game. Since we usually only had a passing interest in the game, we would turn quickly to other distractions, usually games. It was at these parties that I was introduced to a dice game my friends called "Scat." Scat is a variation of poker dice. The rules are as follows: The goal for each player is to make the best "hand" (actually, it's to a

Lesson 12: Why Bigger Isn't Better
In the final post on strongly asteroidal graphs, we look at asteroidal graphs other than S3; namely, graphs IIIn (for n > 2) and IVn (for n > 1). Fortunately, changing these graphs into minimal strongly asteroidal graphs is not nearly as complicated as it was for S3, for two reasons. The first, and most important, is that there is only one potential middle vertex