Whew–just home from the party, to which I brought two dates:
- Frank Wilczek and
- the dummy of Frank Wilczek that that sat with Shelley Glashow at the 2005 Ig Nobels.
Just a few of tonight’s most exciting events….
- Cane-wielding Minor Domo Julia Lunetta told me about an awesome podcast called Second Shift.
- Pizza flippers hijacked to outer space–what a concept–I can’t wait to hear this!
- I got my copy of Marc Abrahams’ new book The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself signed by many Ig notables.
- If we get really, really poor–I can sell it on eBay!
- Mathematica author Stephen Wolfram has a new project about to launch…
- …so cool I’m sure it’ll show up in everyone’s Wired RSS feed. In other news, he has absolutely no idea how many of us used Mathematica to write our own Sudoku-solving programs.
In other news, red wine plus chocolate cake makes people very, very sleepy. Here’s hoping I wake up in time for the Igs next year, in case I win my own prize for that last insight!