Well, the final frontier before we break out of this azure prison.

A great post from Vinod Valloppillil about a Houston movie, Where's the Party, Yaar? (good trailer). One of the things I love about Houston is that there are several large subcultures that I know nothing about. Why do I know nothing about them? Because nobody considers it unusual enough to bother mentioning—it's just taken for granted.  That is what I think multi-cultural is about.

The original title of Charles Darwin's magnum opus? On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

I'm explaining to my 12-year old how the digits of PI are infinte in number. In class he learned just 3.14 and I surprised him with 3.14159. After explaining how the digits continue without end, he asked why I used just six of them.  My answer was simple:

e to the x, dy/dx;
e to the x, dx;
secant, tangent, cosine, sine;
3.14159;
square root, cube root, btu;
compass, slide rule, go Rice U.!