Quirky: Important questions are asked by Academics all the time...

These probably aren't among them: Can we do business with space aliens? or Calculating interest on goods traveling at close to the speed of light (a paper written by Paul Krugman of all people)

PS - I'm trying to figure out a rhythm/focus for my blog so please bear with me as I figure out how to organize my seriously random thoughts and inspiration amongst the dozens of blogs I follow. I've noticed the stuff I find funny tends to be of the 'quirky' (or deliciously macabre - but out of deference to my sister who feels that this would poorly represent me, I'll try not to post too many of those) variety and hence the label that I'll try using from now on.