This has gotten a lot of attention in media that we nerds pay attention to, but not much elsewhere. Last week something blew up deep in space. If you’d been looking up at the sky at that time, you’d have set several records. You’d have seen the furthest naked-eye-visible object. Seven and a half billion [...]
At first glance, this might seem just another editorial about a candidate’s Q&A session with the newspaper’s board. Until you check out who the author is. Not like I expect him to come out and endorse her in November (if she’s even endorseable by then), but politics continues to make for strange bedfellows.
The Princeton professor and noted translator died today. If you’ve ever labored under the idea that the Greek classics were boring, stuffy, or just not action-packed enough for today’s modern world then you’ve never read his translation of The Odyssey. The credit for the brilliant pacing and development of Odysseus’ long journey home, and which [...]
The three terribly addictive online games I’ve wasted the most time on: Boomshine, Desktop Tower Defense, Constellations.
A pox on those of you who pointed me to them.
Just cut it out, you guys.
When you watch an interview with David Lynch it’s always surprising how totally normal he seems. Once you get past the hipster hair style he’s got this unpretentious gee-whiz enthusiasm about things. Did you know he’s a vegan, or at least a vegetarian? He shows us how to make quinoa (pronounced kin-WAH) with organic broccoli, [...]
Or any day. “For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina – or [...]
Last September, I did a photo trip to the relatively untravelled Maple Falls in South Mountain Reservation. At the time, it was pretty dry and I made a mental note to revisit it in the winter, after the rain and snow caused some more flow. So yesterday the faithful companion (Brandy, the dog) took a [...]
Did any of you guys catch the first two episodes of John Adams? I did. Very well done. Love the casting. But not a first. At first I thought, “Ah Gawd, Paul Giamatti as John Adams! How am I ever gonna take this seriously?” Not that there’s anything wrong with Giamatti, but I must just [...]
Last time out, we were still wrestling with getting sound working in the Ubuntu 7.10 release. It never happened. But along the way, I found some intriguing instructions for installing Linux as a virtual machine in Virtual PC 2007…
In another context someone wrote, ‘better? There is no “better’”. That applies to the film classic Gaslight, running on TCM this weekend. A movie who’s title has become a verb, the plot in short is: a young English voice student on the mainland meets an imposing and romantic older man. He woos her, she falls [...]
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