- CJ and I dropped in for lunch at Mexican bakery El Bolillo in Monona because it was snowing and we were tired of driving. This turned out to be a good move — it’s a friendly family place and they make cemitas, which were new to me — it’s a Puebla-style torta, on a very soft, sesame-seeded bread which I think is baked in-house.
- Michael Lugo has upgraded the platform on his blog and is kind of on fire! I really liked this post about what Pythagoras would have done if he’d had access to linear regression, and this one, mathematically modeling the Lake Wobegon effect.
- “Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly,” by Peter Winkler.
- Jeremy Lin has played 13 games as a starter, and I think the weight of the evidence now favors him being a productive NBA player much more than it did at the time of my last post.
- Dexy’s Midnight Runners covered 1968 instrumental hit and pep-band staple “The Horse.”