Boozhy: a blog

Boozhy Miscellania: Health Nut

Apparantly, I gorged on health food this weekend. 

Boozhy Events: Oh Happy Days

Boozhy Dates: Shake Shack's Closing

My office overlooks Madison Square Park, which has the decided advantage of allowing me unparalleled access to Shake Shack, the best burger joint in the Universe.  But, sadly, as happens every year, the Shake Shack closes and I am cut off of my delicious supply of brisket/beef shake shack burgers.  Today is the day it closes.  Woe is me.  I'm entering the bleak period of my life known as the "untasty winter".   You still have a few hours, get it while the getting's good.

Boozhy Headlines: Beauty Is In the Eye of the Beerholder

Many people mistake the name of this site for Boozy.  As in booze.  As in I like to have a few drinks now and again.  As in yes, I'm a drunk, but the site isn't named after booze!  It's Boozhy, like bourgeois, the educated middle class that appreciates a Martini with a meal every now and again to numb our self loathing.  Another side effect of the martini is the well known phenomenon of beer goggles; a phenomenon that is much more predominant during the Holidays when love is in the air and booze flows freely.

It turns out UK scientists have worked out a formula to calculate how beer goggles affect a drinkers vision.  The study was funded by Bausch & Lomb and the formula is to the left.  But, as a science geek and a drinker I find the science a little suspect.  First of all, "δ" isn't defined (if you read the article symbol defn's are available).  Also d (distance) doesn't appear in the formula and as the article states that distance is a factor in beer goggles, I'm troubled.  It MAY be that δ=distance over in the UK.  But, science symbols are typically universal, and "d" always equals distance, not δ.  Anyway, assuming that δ=distance, I still have a problem with the formula in that distance times the smokiness +1 seems fairly simplistic in that 3-D models for fog are much more complex, and my guess would be that fog and smokiness are similar. 

But, then again, maybe I'm thinking about this too much.  On the other hand, it seems the good scientists of Manchester University are as well.  Maybe they are trying to determine exactly how many pints it takes to look past their traditional level of dental care...