Cafe Borrone, Menlo Park

Cafe Borrone, Menlo Park
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Misc

1) My DNA seems to be stalled in the stage of "DNA isolation." When will it move on to "DNA analysis"? Perhaps some kind of toxic material has been identified in the DNA, and they're not going to take any chances with it?

2) What's the best word to describe the expression one detects always in the faces of fellow motorists when driving? It's often a compound of "ennui," "anger," and "frustration," but there's still a certain sameness in all of these that remains to be named.

3) Now I look at my desk, and see that the book lying there is Ogden Nash's The Face is Familiar. So, perhaps the answer to question #2 is in the book? No ( If called by a panther // Don't anther). I need to return that book to the library.

Article on G4G7 by Ivars Peterson

Nice article (and thanks for the link—not that it's my content anyway, it's a NYT article by Ed Rothstein that I shamelessly archived ).

But it should have said

Where else would you find Raymond Smullyan spoiling a card trick by John Conway by palming off the top card from a prearranged deck.

"Ah, I see," Smullyan said. "It's a card you have to blow on, first."

[He blew on it, and it changed into the card Conway expected to see.]

"I should have known better than to let you deal the cards," Conway said.