Couple of friends have indicted they didn't get my Pi Day post. The second square is black, for "." I think it was inspired by a child who associated numbers with colors.
On a little road trip this weekend, Emily and I listened to a recent "This American Life" about coincidences. And we had a weird sort of coincidence on the trip. After visiting with some friends (perhaps more on that later), we swung by Grounds for Sculpture, which was founded by and and has lots of pieces by J. Seward Johnson. Now these are really kitchy sculptures which would typically would probably make me hyperventilate But -- by coincidence -- I was playing throughout the trip with panorama shots on my new carcinogenic iphone 17, will hopefully be posting more soon on flickr or tumblr. But the coincidental kicker was coming across "Luncheon of the Boating Party," as the panorama shot allowed us to get multiple Emilys in the shot -- so because I had the new gizmo, I was able to enjoy a piece I'd ordinarily have not. "No coincidence, no story."
Me: "You sell a lot of these?"
Guy behind counter: "At $200 a piece, its been a while."
"But at the same time that level of criticism has to allow for the possibility that during election cycles people who have maybe not done everything we wanted them to do can get reelected so that we can build a power base so that we can actually do things. And I think we have a balancing act. And I think we've gotten unused to that balance we've spent the entire years of the Reagan counterrevolution out of power. And so we've become critics."But it's nonsense. You can't pretend that Wall Street doesn't have horrendously strong and undue influence on the country. But if you want to get regulation of the financial sector you're going to have to unfortunately to some extent work with Wall Street. Because if you go in naively, you'll find out very quickly how much of what happens in this country Wall Street controls. And one thing I love about Obama is that he is absolutely not naive. And you know, you don't get elected president, when you're a black guy if you're naive. This man -- you know, I couldn't get elected, you know, dogcatcher in my building. He's managed this miracle, he's reelected American president."