On Bad Man Dead
@Clarence Rosario Apparently variations on that joke were being made it at the rate of 400 a minute last night?
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On Consider The Pizza
I've had shitty bagels all over the U.S., including New York. I've only ever had good bagels in New York. But that could just be a coincidence. Like I said, the "bagel food product" thing was my wife's suggestion, and to be fair to her, I think she was probably responding to an ad for Dunkin' Donuts or McDonald's bagels or something like that.
But I still want to how fold-ability got to be an inherent attribute of pizza. Will no one explain that to me?
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On Consider The Pizza
I knew you meant the slice. I've just never heard of any self respecting pizza snob wanting to do any such thing to a poor, innocent slice of pizza. That's something you do to crappy New York street pizza (itself a suitable candidate for the "pizza food product" appellation). I've never heard a pizza snob (with the possible exception of the Chicago deep dish folks) suggest that legitimate pizza should be made in anything other than a stone or brick oven. Where are you getting what you call pizza?
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On Consider The Pizza
As a self described pizza snob, "pizza" from national chains such as Papa John's is not pizza.
Yeah! My wife, who grew up in New York, believes that just as Velveeta is referred to as a "cheese food product," bagels made outside of New York (and many made in New York) should be referred to as "bagel food product." Calling the what national pizza chains make "pizza food product" would be a reasonable extension of that practice.
Pizza is meant to be folded in half...
Ye... wait, what?
...brick oven variety (can be good, but it's not pizza)...
Seriously? What then is pizza? And please don't tell you mean Original Famous Ray's or something like that?
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On How Nuclear Power Plants Work
Excellent point. One other fact... I understated the number of nuclear incidents by a factor of eleven. There have been thirty-three: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdFc0cVRMVDR5c1ZmeC1lR2hac0xjMXc&hl=en
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On How Nuclear Power Plants Work
And as if on cue: http://www.propublica.org/article/status-of-spent-nuclear-fuel-in-question-at-crippled-japanese-power-plant/
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On How Nuclear Power Plants Work
From a pure cost-to-power and pollution-per-megawatt standpoint, nuclear is the clear winner.
Can you show your work on that one? Specifically, what factor are you using for the cost of indefinite storage of the waste produced--a problem that to the best of my knowledge (as illustrated by the ongoing sagas of Sellafield, Hanford, and Yucca Mountain) hasn't been satisfactorily solved--in your calculation of cost-per-megawatt? And how are you then factoring that same issue into your calculation of pollution-per-megawatt?
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On How Nuclear Power Plants Work
Well, three anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
But isn't saying that nuclear power is no more dangerous than fossil fuels to sort of miss the point? Isn't the idea to find something clearly better than fossil fuel?
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On How Nuclear Power Plants Work
Yeah, I read that post over the weekend, and a few things struck me about it. First and foremost, the author's smugness and certainty that I didn't know these things was a little off-putting. I read on and found very little that I hadn't already seen elsewhere.
His certainty that, despite the fact that every safety measure thus far has successively failed (and he doesn't seem to know quite why), the containment vessel won't fail struck me as unjustifiably optimistic.
But finally, what prompted me to click close tab was his saying that once whatever was in the containment vessel had settled down, the vessel would just be cleaned and the waste placed in "terminal storage." See, the problem as I understand it is that there really isn't any viable terminal storage for nuclear waste yet. As far as I can tell, everyone's just paying England to dump it in the Irish Sea. So even if everything works the way it should, we'll end up with an increasingly irradiated Knifecrime Island, and that can't be good for anyone.
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On A Gallery of New York in Spring!
Yeah, Riverside Park and environs have been pretty spectacular the last couple of weeks.