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Today’s Call With Dad
- He is amazed that people think Glenn Beck is smart, and has some sort of special understanding of things. “It’s a special understanding, all right!” says dad.
- People don’t answer their phones anymore, so you can’t do random digit dialing surveys anymore.
- But you could recruit millions of iPhone users to be study participants with their fancy phones!!! He wants to know why I didn’t think of this and become rich?
- And why didn’t I go to stay in school? and go then go to MIT?
- And then something about measuring stuff with cameras in your mouth.
- “Could you tell me everything you ate over the last week?” “Tacos.”
- My dad suggests something that we then describe as “tantamount to slapping Glenn Beck in the mouth.”
- “You’ve never heard of Joshua Bell?”
- And then five minutes of my dad narrating Rachel Maddow to me with commentary.
- And then, rambling about how Pynchon is very interesting. Very interesting! He finds it interesting.
- This is verbatim:
- And then, this other book about Alexis Sawyer. He’s a French guy. He became a cook, you know. A chef in England. And the British could not cook at all! They are terrible at cooking. They still are, I think, if you look at Ramsey’s kitchen nightmares. He came up as a big big chef and became like the first celebrity chef. He developed sauces that were commercialized. They’re like the Hines of England. He became rich and famous and that kind of stuff, but he was never accepted by the you know you know upper crust because a mere chef couldn’t be an equal to these upper class English twits. This is the time of Dickens, Charles Dickens. So first he decides to open up a soup kitchen, so he did that. And he developed the gas stove that was used by the British army up until the Gulf War. And then the Irish Potato Famine happened, and he opened a soup kitchen over there. And he went out and worked with Florence Nightingale.
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