Wes Phillips

A cardboard listening "room." I'd call it a pod, myself, but in a small space like that surround sound probably is essential. I do dig the look of laminated construction, though.

Mutually agreed cooperation on the disputed NAS drive chassis (it's warm, it vibrates, and it's next to the monitor).

Yeah, it looks cute, but Huckleberry is making his move to take over the whole thing. When he has annoyed Bagheera enough, she'll leave in a huff—or else haul off and smack him. Since he's always up for a ruckus, there's no downside.

Alicia Zuckerman has a nice coda on Kurt Vonnegut over at the HufPo. She gets the final word on Vonnegut's epitaph because she actually asked him what he wanted it to be.

"I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it."

Back in March, I posted a linkhttp://blog.stereophile.com/wesphillips//index4.html">link; to a Physics Web articlehttp://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/3/3/1">article; on iconic equations, which quoted Gauss' assertion that if Euler's formula wasn't immediately obvious, the reader probably has no chance at being a first-class mathematician.

Anybody who has been around NYC for the last 20 years or so will attest to the fact that it has gotten a lot easier to get great burritos. Ever wonder why? Idle Words fills us in on the secret.