{"id":72,"date":"2005-08-16T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/16\/salt-talks-2\/"},"modified":"2005-08-16T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T19:11:00","slug":"salt-talks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/16\/salt-talks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Talks 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0679454438\/qid=1124219352\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-9088817-9512649?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/weblog\/roadtoreality.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Click for more info from Amazon.\" \/><\/a>Whatcha readin&#8217; these days? I&#8217;m painfully slogging my way through Roger Penrose&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0679454438\/qid=1124219352\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-9088817-9512649?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\"><i>Road to Reality<\/i><\/a> and cross refrencing websites and math texts to try to figure out what the heck he&#8217;s on about and getting caught back up on polar representations of complex variables in the complex plane, with the goal of truly understanding <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/EulerFormula.html\">Euler&#8217;s Formula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back at the ranch, here&#8217;s what our majoritorially popular misunderestimated philospher king is taking with him on a 5-week vacation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-bushread16aug16,0,636257,print.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines\">Newsday.com: Bush Salts His Summer With Eclectic Reading List<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(A colleague at work sent me a link to this article as an inside joke because I use <i>Salt<\/i> as the archetype for things we sell a lot of where I just can&#8217;t understand the appeal &#8211; we&#8217;ve sold around 200 copies of the audiobook on cassettes and CDs at $40-50 each, and it&#8217;s around a 15-hour listen. I gave up 3 or 4 tapes in.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatcha readin&#8217; these days? I&#8217;m painfully slogging my way through Roger Penrose&#8217;s Road to Reality and cross refrencing websites and math texts to try to figure out what the heck he&#8217;s on about and getting caught back up on polar representations of complex variables in the complex plane, with the goal of truly understanding Euler&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/16\/salt-talks-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Salt Talks 2?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}