Super Bowl Recap

The Steelers won the super Bowl last night, in a game that didn't hold any rooting interest for me. As a result, I spent most of it doing other things-- making gourmet fried stuff (about which more later), marking a big stack of homework assignments, and writing today's lecture (solutions of the time-independent Schroedinger equation! Whee!).

Happily, Scott Eric Kaufman has a recap, and Fred Clark has the halftime show covered. Oh, and if you want football talk, Jim Henley has a partisan take.

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