Median age: 78

Listeria doesn't scare me. I couldn't figure out how so many people are ill, and then the CDC nailed it: Median age 78.
http://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/cantaloupes-jensen-farms/092711/epi.html
I guess those nursing homes should nix the fruit plates for awhile.

Fungi and bacteria infections are generally what kill the elderly. I have often wondered how wasabi plays a part in the longevity of the Japanese due to its interesting anti-bacterial properties.

The 10 best albums of all time.

I have decided that I disagree with most music critics regarding the best albums. I do not necessarily believe that the best album has to be the most influential. I describe the "best" as what I can listen too over and over and over without getting tried it. This means that there are constant subtleties and nuance that I am discovering or rediscovering. Here is the list of what I believe the top 10 albums to be, in no particular order:

1. The Stone Roses -- Second Coming
2. Van Morrison -- Veedon Fleece
3. Angel Tech -- Angel Tech
4. The Clash -- London Calling
5. Radio Citizen -- Berlin Serengeti
6. The Beatles -- Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here
8. Color Filter -- Sleep in a Synchrotron
9. Dr. Dre -- 2001
10. Nine Inch Nails -- Pretty Hate Machine

Of course, I'm a huge fan of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Tori Amos and others that are in my regular rotation (as you can tell I have a thing for folk and blues), but they don't have the draw of constant play that I get from these albums. There are many albums which I wish were in this list, but just are not quite right for perpetual play. Gramophone by Gramophone is a wonderful album for example. Led II is wonderful as well, but it all comes down to mood. I think that "Second Coming" is the best album of all-time for my disposition.

暖かくて寒くて？

I like my casual frozen food to be hot. 大磯のホテルにあった。

Windows does not have unixtime. :(

I like my Mac. I like unixtime. It helps keep me organized, but I was surprised to find that Windows does not have a similar feature from the shell. I did find that I could generate unix-like time, which made me happy. :)

In a batch file, can do substrings that can be used to generate new date information.
My batch file sui.sh was:
echo %date% %time%
echo %date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%.%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%time:~9,2%

The output produced:
Tue 08/30/2011 11:28:31.09
20110830.11283109

Happy, happy sui. :)

Compressor jet engines work best at altitude, but you cannot get around being on the ground. Here's my numbers for fuel burn during taxi taken with a stopwatch from single-engine start to runway-hold. 10gal/min is a rule of thumb for taxi, but the carriers keep the actual numbers close to their chest. I have much more detailed information, but you get the gist of it.

FLT	Origin	Dest.	Min	sec	gal/min	total
DL1412	ATL	DTW	21	23	10	213.83
NW1730	DTW	BOS	10	30	10	105.00
DL1857	ATL	BOS	28	55	10	289.17
DL63	ATL	LAX	7	30	10	75.00
DL9010	LAX	SFO	6	0	10	60.00
DL1074	SFO	ATL	12	25	10	124.17
DL1852	ATL	BOS	32	20	10	323.33
DL1855	BOS	ATL	20	12	10	202.00
DL1516	ATL	DTW	12	40	10	126.67
NW25	DTW	NRT	30	30	10	305.00
DL500	NRT	ATL	5	15	10	52.50
DL372	ATL	BOS	10	45	10	107.50
DL1855	BOS	ATL	19	27	10	194.50

Y_{0}?

I was told that I should add to blog, why not?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX