One last entry before I leave for Pittsburgh.
Went out to check on my car and they are doing road resurfacing and they towed my car….but not to a lot, it was towed to a nearby street and I had to find it on my own! How f*cked up is that? fortuneately, I found it quick. 
Cool link of the day : Lite Brite The old 70’s toy can now be played online. surprised to see that Hasbro still makes it! You would think they would have to have tons of warning labels for it.
In case my notoriety in Eric Zorn’s weblog goes away, here it is for posterity:
FLASH ON THE MOB “Someone yelled out, `Look… a street musician!’ and (about 30 to 40 people) started dancing for about 45 seconds, and then quickly dispersed,” says an early report from a witness to Chicago’s first flash mob Saturday evening. Check back to this item later for updates from others who were involved, who have not checked in as of early Monday morning. At the Greasy Skillet blog, Dave Elfving, a reconstructed flash mobber explains here why his interest in mobbing as waned considerably and e-mailer Douglas Uhlinger yawns, “Flash mobs are so July 2003.” My dad, ever the physical scientist, remains engaged by the idea, however. “Flash mobs have the potential to generate considerable nxiety because we are not used to seeing coordinated, coherent actions by groups of people whose agenda is not well understood,” he writes, and “the theory of coherent optics” helps explain why:: “The effective power of N coherently acting sources grows as N-squared, while the effective power of N incoherently acting sources grows only as N. Light usually arises from the radiation of millions of atoms within an enclosure, so N is a very large number in almost any light source. This is why a 20 watt laser with coherently radiating atoms is virtually a death ray while 20 watts of light from the randomly radiating atoms in an incandescent source (e.g. a 100 watt light bulb) gives us no particular concern it its use.”
UPDATE: Brad Held directs us to this photo from the Chicago flash mob. And a recent NY Times article says that Cheesebikini is the best blog for following this phenomenon nationwide
More new food! Stax from Lay’s. Kinda like Pringle’s but a bit thicker. Here is a USA Today article on the subject….
Personal review: TASTY!
Well, it did happen! i was there for Chicago’s 1st Flash Mob (see yesterday’s entry)
At 7:45, someone yelled “Look, a street musician!” and about 30 people got up and started dancing and dispersed after about 1 minute. It was quite surreal! The poor street musician did not know what was going on!
