June 27
Better Than News
Indiana Jones and the Last Grilled Cheese Sandwich is an American action-adventure foodie film directed by Steven Spielberg about archaeologist Indiana Jones, who is searching for the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich.
Love, Mannequin Style is an anthology comedy television series. Each episode features a story of mannequin romance, usually with a comedic spin.
Gödel, Escher, Dick is an alleged user's manual for the Philip K. Dick android.
The Day the Gorp Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction foodie film about a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to deliver an important message about snack foods.
The Rocky Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic frozen confections film a father (Viggo Mortenson) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) seeking rocky road ice cream in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Beyond Plausible
Where's Pepper? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between a chef (George Segal) and his senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with his seasonings.
Spice-Lord is a 2021 science fiction comedy film about a zoologist (Chris Pratt) who discovers a new species of worm which excretes a hallucinogenic drug.
Nostromo Cafe is a restaurant located aboard the spaceship Nostromo.
In Other Words
"Held Vast Unfortunate Hopes" is an anagram of "The Adventures Of Pluto Nash".
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange?
... that The Noel Harrison Sensation (or simply The Sensation) is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which actor Noel Harrison uses to project his sensorium, in order to experience opening nights of films by himself and his friends from novel perspectives; and that Harrison usually manifests The Sensation as a movie poster, although he occasionally manifests as a life-size cardboard figure of himself?
Selected Anniversaries
1806: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan born. De Morgan will formulate two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.
1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).
Topic of the Day
Food
Tartrazzini is a transnational dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and parmesan sauce colored bright green-yellow with tartrazine (nonfiction). Often one or more of the ingredients will be infused with tartrazine in advance.
They Live, We Eat is a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chicxulub Chips is a brand of snack food, consisting primarily of tephra from the Chicxulub crater.