Random, much of it food related

[magid]

In some way or another...

An interesting infographic about cost per calorie and calories by weight, as distributed in an average supermarket.

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Bldgblog points out another way to combat global warming: growing plants with lighter leaves that reflect more light, and painting external surfaces such as roofs and parking lots white. I personally wouldn't appreciate the parking lots, especially in the summer when the glare would be horrible (plus not having a dark color means it would take longer for snow to melt), but it's still an intriguing idea.

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With Earth's ever-growing population, plus the preponderance of people opting for cities, having places to raise food in urban centers seems like a good idea, if they can fit. Which they can, if you put them into high-rises. I'm sure there are lots more technical issues to this than the site mentions, but it still sounds like it could work on some scale.

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This Jewish food pyramid shirt is great:
Tier 1: bagels, matzah, matzah balls, pita.
Tier 2: Pickles, hummus, tzimmes, dill, figs
Tier 3: shmeers, cream cheese / gefilte fish, lox, pastrami on rye
Tier 4: gelt coins, schmaltz, jelly rings, latkes, blintzes

Of course, with the revised food pyramid, the Jewish version needs updating:

Grains: bagels, matzah, matzah balls, pita
Vegetables: pickles, tzimmes, latkes, all kinds kugel
Fruits: apples and honey, figs, grapes, dried plums
Milk: cheese blintzes, cream cheese, cheese danish
Meat & Beans: gefilte fish, lox, pastrami, hummus
Oils and Discretionary Calories: gelt coins, schmaltz, jelly rings

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Amusingly bad writing: "Wilson measured his rectangular fish tank."
Which is for his two-dimensional fish, of course. The problem being that it's a rectangle, so there's nowhere to put the fish food in. Wilson has an alarming rate of killing his fish.

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The work of a graffiti artist, and the movie being made about his art during his travels.

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Oh, and the turkey was out Monday morning. *gobble gobble*

Comments

[feygele.livejournal.com]

I took photos/videos of some of his graffiti in Behtlehem and posted it on LJ last week. Very cool stuff.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'm far too low-tech; I don't usually watch videos at work, and the home machine can't handle them.

Weird confluence of events: I found out about him by reading $SomeStupidMagazine while on a stationary bike at the gym a week or two ago. Serendipity...

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

cool stuff! I loved the graphic especially.

[(Anonymous)]

The second and third items together remind me of the planted roof concept.

Flatland fish!

Wilson has an alarming rate of killing his fish.

Cracked me up. Nicely done!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I like the graphic, but kept wondering if there were a more efficient way of displaying the information (all that Visual Display of Quantitative Information-type stuff).

[magid.livejournal.com]

Planted roofs are really cool... as long as they're part of the design.

I love getting a giggle out of this stuff, though it does mean that there are some seriously geometrically challenged people out there.

[(Anonymous)]

The humorous analysis of the geometrical error was indeed amusing, but it was the unexpected and charmingly-phrased conclusion of that final sentence that got me.

What *is* the term for such a three-dimensional shape? A hexahedron is too broad, but a cube is too specific.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Rectangular prism?

(And of course, I have to take it to it's logical conclusion :-). Of course, in this case, I wasn't as careful as I might have been, since there's nowhere to put the fish in, either, so Wilson has to keep buying rectangular aquaria with fish already inside. Seems like a scam at the pet shop, really.)

[(Anonymous)]

If "rectangular" can be used to modify "prism," why can't it be used to modify "fish tank" to the same end? The sentence didn't say that Wilson's fish tank is a rectangle, only that it is rectangular.

[magid.livejournal.com]

A prism is described by the shape of one base. So a rectangular prism is a prism with a rectangular base, a triangular prism is a prism with a triangular base, and so on. The adjective, in this case, describes a two-dimensional figure. With a real-world object, like a fish tank, adjectives need to apply to a three-dimensional item, or describe only part of it. Hence, I changed the wording to be something about the rectangular front of the fish tank, since the front of a tank is (reasonably, for these purposes) two-dimensional.

[(Anonymous)]

That is an excellent explanation. Thank you.