Gina Gallo, the winemaker for the company of the same name, says: "I love Pinot Grigio. Some people are a little tired of Chardonnay with too pronounced oak. It conflicts with food." (from Daily Tipple Wine News)
For some reason, all California wineries, especially in Napa and Sonoma make Chardonnay that reeks of turpines. Why? We know from the French that it's not the grape, but rather the process that does that. Look at the labels of Caliwines for the word "oak". They act like they're proud of it. So it makes sense that American taste buds are seeking the less complex Pinot Grigio as solice. Of course now that they know we drink it, they'll want to jack up the price...
Again, filchy boy suggests a field of study to include in the expanding beautiful experiments list: Game theory, a branch of mathematics.
Games I enjoy are logical games where the outcomes seem to be calculable such as chess or slot machines, and complex games such as baseball, where the next move is indeterminate. But, I cannot see the theory for the game. Knot theory however, is a simple, geometric mapping of a game-like situation onto a one dimensional structure, a knot.
My analysis of a trefoil and a twisted loop, above, show they have different properties as well as similar properties. Can a complex situation like a game or even a personal relationship, be equated to a tangled knot? If so, can they then be analysed and thus untangled?
What I've read:
Symbolic Logic/Game of Logic by Charles Dodgson (1897),
Laws of the Game by Eigen and Winkler (1981) and
The Knot Book by Colin Adams (1994).
The reverse cowgirl promotes the upcoming movie about the life of Bob Craine. I've heard the movie is sensationalized, so here is:
The real story of Col. Robert Craine.
