one year smarter

Here are some things I have learned in 2011:

• Even if tickets are $60 dollars and nobody will go with you, you should go see an R Kelly concert.
• The trick to making sure nobody sits next to you on the Megabus is to sit in the aisle seat with tissues and a bag of beef jerky on your lap.
• A nonboolean treatment of the truth conditions of disjunction is compositionally problematic.
• Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliot is an exceptional album.
• Goons is the most fun card in Dominion.
• Teaching is quite hard work.
• Pickle enthusiasm probably doesn’t factor too heavily when a woman is determining her romantic interest in a guy.  If it does, it’s inversely proportional.  (Exceptions may exist.)
• The Slovenian word for beer is pivo.
• If you’re having trouble picking a team in NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, you could do a lot worse than Hakeem Olajuwon and Kenny Smith.
• Border collies, or at least one border collie, is capable of reasoning by disjunctive syllogism.  I can’t find a video of the disjunctive syllogism, but here’s Chaser doing some fun stuff.
• Despite being on CBS, The Good Wife is very compelling, very good television, and features a stream of excellent guest appearances.