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There seems to be a problem with my comment system. Dreamhost now wants all .php extensions running Apache scripts changed to .pcgi.

raza said the pgci switch worked for him. I\'m saving mine for break.

Are you talking about the video where that girl is coloring a butterfly, and she stares into her orange crayon, and the screen gets all blurry, and we get to see how all orange crayons join the extended family of crayon colors?

Do you remember Mathnet? It was a mock Dragnet type show all about math problems. I think it originally was a skit from 321-contact, but they eventually made it a separate entity. Man, I used to watch that show like it was goin\' out of style. To this day I still remember my love for the word \"dodecahedron\"

Yes dodecahedron was the best. I still like to say it.

I thought Mathnet originated from a sketch on Square One. I\'d bet my life on it, since for a few years I loved a show that revolved solely math and now couldn\'t solve a simple alebraic function.

it is from square one. but alison and ryan and I have already had this discussion, so I\'ll let them carry on. ;)

You\'re all right. It was Square one. My bad. Does anyone remember the episode where you learned about Space Diagonal from the moron who bought a grandfather clock that was too big to get into his house?

my heart hurts.

no, but do you remember the one with the rockstar who kept his teeth really clean? he got kidnapped?

heh. that makes it look like i\'m a mathnet link.

Yeah, I was fortunate to grow up without cable until my teen years too. It was either soap operas or pbs or books, so I chose the latter, and that has made all the difference.

yes. absolutely.

lucky bastards. my parents wouldnt get a tv till i was 12. which is to say, i have no shared common background.

We are geeks, and that\'s the way I like it. You\'re right about Mathnet\'s deadpan pop-culture referencing, Jared.

Mariah: I like The City of Lost Children better... but Delicatessen alone is a damn good reason to get a TV.

In regards to the lesson of the Space Diagonal (AKA application of Pythagorean theorem) a woman refused to sell a 12ft tall, 2ft wide grandfather clock to a man with 12ft ceilings and an 8ft door. The math net team conducted experiments and did calculations to find that the vendor was right in not selling the clock, because the space diagonal of the clock was 12.16 feet, thus it would not have fit in the man\'s house.

in a laughable attempt to save cash, i had my cable turned off. this has led to my watching hours of pbs. i have really come to love the charlie rose show. way better interviews than larry king or bill o\'riley - if you\'re into that sort of thing.

Tom Lehrer, man. Tom Lehrer.

I thought it was Jim Lehrer...

again with the mentioning things in weblogs that i was talking about earlier.

lerhrer is great, but nobody beats the maglaughlin group:

tom lehrer, man. tom lehrer.

Strangely, that\'s exactly what I was going to say.

i couldn\'t agree more about the mcneil-lehrer newshour ruining evening pbs...and it was more than that. it was the end of the day, and you could smell the food cooking in the kitchen. no one had bothered to turn on lights yet, so it was still dim in the living room. your clothes smelled stale from all day and the furniture had the same quality. that time of day will forever be associated with the dreaded da-dadada da da of news hour theme.

How can you say Henrietta Pussaycat sucked? She was so sweet. Her and Daniel.

I don\'t think that anyone has mentioned one of my heroes: Norm Abrams from the New Yankee Workshop. Aside from all the abstract type learning that went on, New Yankee Workshop was all about making something with your hands that was functional and you felt good about. I think very few young people ever get to make something of significance with their hands, that in the end they are proud of.

Jess: You\'ve pinned it perfectly. The Dreaded News Hour marked the beginning of night, with the sound of pots banging around in the kitchen. Soon, mom would waltz into the family room with her wine, demanding to watch channel four news. Dinner, homework, and bedtime couldn\'t be too far off. And in winter, it was already dark out, practically night. Dr. Who was a much better, surreal, close to the evening than was Tom Lehrer.

As far as making things with your hands goes, it still mystifies me that my dad his 2 brothers, and a few friends pretty much built the house I grew up in by themselves. I\'ve inherited some of his handyman skills, but I could never fathom of undertaking something of that magnitude.