It’s raining now.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the rain might cool things down a bit, which will be nice for the long run I was planning on doing tomorrow morning. On the other hand, the Trek bar, which I planted this afternoon at the corner of Olcott and [...]
Archive for June, 2005
On Weather
30Jun05Shout out
29Jun05The Weezer song that is currently number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart starts with the line “Where I come from isn’t all that great”. That’s Rivers Cuomo singing and that’s Storrs, CT he’s singing about. He is our one celebrity, and we’re proud of him.
That said, I don’t think the [...]
Thank god for Sweden
29Jun05Sambassadeur - Between The Lines
I have no idea what they are singing about, even though they are singing in very understandable english. I have no idea what they are singing about because I am just dumbstruck by their voodoo Swedish production values. It seems like no matter what the Swedes do, no matter [...]
I invented a new term
29Jun05It’s called “procrastinatorial explosion”. It’s a word play on “procrastination” and “combinatorial explosion“. I’m not yet sure what it means. Any suggestions?
Comparison
28Jun05I generally don’t like attempts to compare the current war in Iraq to the Vietnam War. People seem to suggest that because the current situation is similar to the situation in Vietnam that it will fail just like Vietnam. But that argument is nonsense; it’s a false analogy.
That said, I find it interesting [...]
Aggressive is good
Queer is bad
We don’t need anyone else
We are happier than everyone else
The computer is an information lubricant without limits. A global commons of thought is inevitable. Ignorant Americans are a local majority and a global minority. There is hope.
(thoughts after reading this)
In the Future
27Jun05Jon “Hannibal” Stokes tells us Ten things he learned about the future at the Wired NextFest. Warning: geek humor ahead.
Challenge
25Jun05Tenzing: Hero of Everest reads like a Lord of the Rings FAQ: terribly written and devoid of any sort of literary structure at all, but enthusiastic enough and devoted to such an enthralling subject that it is a worthwhile read for like-minded geeks.
Reading about Tenzing’s early drive to break into the mountain guide industry and [...]
I lucked out today. I thought I’d go to the diminuative Tuesday farmer’s market–as compared to the dimaxuative Saturday one–to get some new potatoes. I passed them up on Saturday and regretted it. But when I arrived to pick over the half dozen stands, I found something even better: STRAWBERRIES!
I was a [...]
Good Coverage
17Jun05There was some hoo-ha in the House yesterday about a memo from the British government that suggests Bush made up his mind about the war and then tried to gather intelligence to support that strategy. The Christian Science Monitor has a good collection of opinions about the topic.
Now, whatever your opinion about “impartial journalism” [...]
