Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Going Up/Going Down
Instead of absolute positions, this list measures the rate of change, the first derivative, dGood/dt.
+10 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
+9 Taking the stairs
+8 Learning about Greeks and Romans
+7 Walking home via Barcombe Avenue
+6 Thinking about Hispanic culture and language
+5 Science
+4 Penguins
+3 Baseball
+2 Learning poetry
+1 Coffee
0 Tea
-1 Reality TV
-2 Monkeys
-3 Worrying About nuclear proliferation
-4 Trainers
-5 Oscar Peterson
-6 Football
-7 Commenting on blogs
-8 Buying Sandwiches
-9 Arguing about taste
-10 Internally spelling out “different” as “di-ffêr-ent”
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Instead of absolute positions, this list measures the rate of change, the first derivative, dGood/dt.
+10 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
+9 Taking the stairs
+8 Learning about Greeks and Romans
+7 Walking home via Barcombe Avenue
+6 Thinking about Hispanic culture and language
+5 Science
+4 Penguins
+3 Baseball
+2 Learning poetry
+1 Coffee
0 Tea
-1 Reality TV
-2 Monkeys
-3 Worrying About nuclear proliferation
-4 Trainers
-5 Oscar Peterson
-6 Football
-7 Commenting on blogs
-8 Buying Sandwiches
-9 Arguing about taste
-10 Internally spelling out “different” as “di-ffêr-ent”
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