Too many chromosomes. I am enjoying The Omnivore's Dilemma, though not as much as Botany of Desire, which leads me to wonder, is this one even better? I have developed the default assumption that the first or second album by any band is likely to be their best, but it seems that I've internalized no such rule of thumb for literature. Perhaps I don't read enough.
I'm not not sure that this expression has anything to do with the McNugget Number, which may itself simply be an indicator that mathematicians are eating way too much McDonald's.
Ever wonder about those discrete McNugget morphotypes? (image links…)
Ontogeny recapitulates epistemology,
(thanks to Pharyngula, Mike the Pod, McDonald's, Wizards of the Coast and Mexico!)
25 May 2006 at 7:30 pm
Urgh, the comments section totally makes that question non-rhetorical and therefore much much less funny (although the riff on the “makes” double meaning is cute).
http://morgan.rutgers.edu/morganwebframes/level1/page2/ChromNum.html
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/genetics/medgen/basics/minmax_chromos.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Third_albums
If you’re too close-minded to accept that “Hooray for Boobies” might be superior ro “One Fierce Beer Coaster,” well sir, there’s not much I can do for you.
26 May 2006 at 11:31 am
At the exact moment that I wrote the above inane comment, my two roommates were listening to Michael Pollan read at BookPeople. !