Comments on: Grand Clues All Around http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:36:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Funky Hideaway - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-76855 Funky Hideaway - Asymptotia Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:18:25 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-76855 [...] I love downtown Los Angeles. No two ways about it. It’s rapidly getting better, as you may have heard, and there are so many interesting things to find down there. I hope to do a report sometime on an extended walkabout I did down there last month, but that’s for another time. Today, I left campus to go and hide downtown, first stopping by the excellent Grand Central Market for a bit of shopping for ingredients for a special dish I am going to prepare for a Salon-style gathering at some friends’ on Saturday. More on that later. Then I went to work in one of my favourite cafes in the city. I shouldn’t give away my hideouts, but there’s only you and me reading, right? It’s the Lost Souls Cafe, hidden down an alleyway (Harlem Place Alley) off fourth street between Spring and Main. Perfect for the subway at Pershing Square, and one of the few non-bar type places open until 10:00pm downtown. (Wish it would go until 1:00am or so.) [...] [...] I love downtown Los Angeles. No two ways about it. It’s rapidly getting better, as you may have heard, and there are so many interesting things to find down there. I hope to do a report sometime on an extended walkabout I did down there last month, but that’s for another time. Today, I left campus to go and hide downtown, first stopping by the excellent Grand Central Market for a bit of shopping for ingredients for a special dish I am going to prepare for a Salon-style gathering at some friends’ on Saturday. More on that later. Then I went to work in one of my favourite cafes in the city. I shouldn’t give away my hideouts, but there’s only you and me reading, right? It’s the Lost Souls Cafe, hidden down an alleyway (Harlem Place Alley) off fourth street between Spring and Main. Perfect for the subway at Pershing Square, and one of the few non-bar type places open until 10:00pm downtown. (Wish it would go until 1:00am or so.) [...]

]]> By: Backreacting Asymptotically - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-46829 Backreacting Asymptotically - Asymptotia Tue, 22 May 2007 06:16:29 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-46829 [...] Anyway, in the photo below is Bee (click for larger - she’s the main blogger behind the excellent Backreaction, and she’s done a post there which briefly mentions her visit to Disney Concert Hall with me), at Grand Central Market (inserted into a photo taken near one you saw earlier. See also this post.): [...] [...] Anyway, in the photo below is Bee (click for larger - she’s the main blogger behind the excellent Backreaction, and she’s done a post there which briefly mentions her visit to Disney Concert Hall with me), at Grand Central Market (inserted into a photo taken near one you saw earlier. See also this post.): [...]

]]> By: Stephen Uitti http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6676 Stephen Uitti Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:29:43 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6676 I can never find a good quantum mechanic when i need one. You see, i have this photon that's broken. I can never find a good quantum mechanic when i need one. You see, i have this photon that’s broken.

]]> By: Cynthia http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6611 Cynthia Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:14:09 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6611 Hey you, the BA, brilliant observation! Admittedly, you have a sharp eye for detecting the dicreteness of check cashing within this quantum marketplace. However, I'd like to challenge your sharp eye to uncover the superpositioning and--of course--the entanglement of credit card use within this quantum marketplace;)... Hey you, the BA, brilliant observation! Admittedly, you have a sharp eye for detecting the dicreteness of check cashing within this quantum marketplace. However, I’d like to challenge your sharp eye to uncover the superpositioning and–of course–the entanglement of credit card use within this quantum marketplace;)…

]]> By: Count Iblis http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6520 Count Iblis Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:57:45 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6520 An interesting question is if quantum mechanics could have been discovered on purely theoretical grounds in the 19-th century in an attempt to solve inconsistencies in classical electrodynamics, such as violation of causality if you take the back reaction of accelerated charges into acount, stability of matter, etc. An interesting question is if quantum mechanics could have been discovered on purely theoretical grounds in the 19-th century in an attempt to solve inconsistencies in classical electrodynamics, such as violation of causality if you take the back reaction of accelerated charges into acount, stability of matter, etc.

]]> By: Weldon http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6482 Weldon Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:21:36 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6482 A little more physical would be a discussion of how the neon signs are in different colors A little more physical would be a discussion of how the neon signs are in different colors

]]> By: Plato http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6444 Plato Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:16:07 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6444 Onions? Onions?

]]> By: Aaron F. http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6421 Aaron F. Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:32:28 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6421 And look... Del Rey products come in discrete, identical jars! ^_^ And look… Del Rey products come in discrete, identical jars! ^_^

]]> By: Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6404 Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:37:00 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6404 Obviously, it's the discrete levels to sandwiches as advertised in the sign in the background. Also, check cashing involves discrete sums of money. Wow, QM <i>is</i> everywhere! :-) Obviously, it’s the discrete levels to sandwiches as advertised in the sign in the background.

Also, check cashing involves discrete sums of money.

Wow, QM is everywhere!

:-)

]]> By: Ambitwistor http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6400 Ambitwistor Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:02:32 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/11/28/grand-clues-all-around/#comment-6400 Neon signs... atomic emission spectra --> discrete energy levels? Neon signs… atomic emission spectra –> discrete energy levels?

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