Jodi and I finished dinner tonight and the suggestion arose that we shouldgo to a local cafe for cake, coffee, and a little atmosphere. She had some work to do on a research project, something she could do with her Powerbook, and I had a paper to edit and some […]
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YAWN STRETCH OW! Well, at least I won’t need my legs to type this. This morning, Jodi and I met friends at Sequoia High School down at the bottom of our hill. The occasion was not breakfast and coffee, though it became clear an hour later that both of those […]
A month ago, I mentioned that our car was broken into and a number of canvas shopping bags were stolen [1]. The reason we have them is the same reason people buy canvas shopping bags: we’re more and more tired of only having the choice of paper or plastic. Neither […]
In the past few years, there has been a lot of fuss about music sharing. Something that I and my friends regularly engaged in during high school and college – making mix-tapes, in this case – became so easy with the advent of the web and p2p programs that suddenly […]
Can you spot the music critic from the Hartford Courant? Bonus points: can you find my sister? (Photo from the Shag Frenzy website) (Need help spotting the Critic? Check out his blog for a likeness: http://blogs.courant.com/eric_danton_sound_check/ Powered by ScribeFire.
Last year, the sixth seal was broken and at&t rose from the ashes of the baby Bells, which in turn resulted from the sacrificial burning of AT&T. It’s in the Bible. I swear. Can’t find it? Try the Qu’ran. No? Keep looking. Anyway, a lot of people have laughed at […]
I was recently witness to the kind of modern slight against women in physics that reminds me that while we’ve all come a long was as a field, we have a mighty long way to go to achieve mutual respect. Without going into details, or naming names, the incident can […]
“Marketplace”, a daily show about money, the economy, and the intermingling of business and personal lives, presented a short piece on how the desire for a life of academic pursuit, and the desire for a life together with another, can come into conflict. On tonight’s program, reporter Jane Lyndholm presented […]
I’ve been running pretty silent again lately. It’s not like interesting things have stopped happening in the world. About a third of the Republican presidential candidates still don’t believe in evolution, the basis of progress in the entire modern medical and social fabrics of our world (good luck on real […]
Jodi and I went down to Stanford tonight. We do this occasionally, to take a walk and maybe grab a cup of coffee. On our way back to the car, we saw a huge art piece sitting off on the side of the path. It was built from what looked […]
Over coffee at the dining room table this morning, Jodi and I churned out another episode of “The Two-Body Problem”, our (weekly?) netcast. You can grab it from the show’s website: http://twobodyproblem.cooleysekula.net/#%5B%5B3%20June%202007%5D%5D This week, we were particularly interested in the recent immigration bill and the statements by NASA administrator Michael […]
Yesterday was a pretty good day. Jodi, a friend, and I hiked from Portola Road up through the Windy Hill open space preserve to Skyline Drive at the top of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The view from the top was stellar, not only because of the expanse of the Bay […]