My commute was blissfully perfect today. Left the house at 6:47, encountered very little traffic and arrived at the train station at 7:11 (I’ve started tracking routes and times with the vague thought of calculating variances and means…). The train pulled away at 7:20 and into Back bay around 8:11. Got to Boston Datacenters before . . . → Read More: Train stories
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The plumbers are back, and they are drilling into my basement walls again. Drill drill drill. It makes the house shake. They’re mounting pipe along the walls. Looks like we’re going to be able to make the drainage work without a pump. Amazing what you learn when you actually measure. The plumbers have been . . . → Read More: Plumbers Watched “Million Dollar Baby” this evening. Dark, dark, dark. A beautiful work of cinema. The physicality and emotional rawness of the roles really spoke to me. In the end though, when Eastwood’s character finally realizes that there’s no God out there … at least no God who can help with the really difficult crap of . . . → Read More: Million dollar baby Thus it begins: Kuwait’s biggest field starts to run out of oil. Doctors have a saying: “The bleeding always stops.” Engineers have a similar saying: “Unsustainable trends eventually end.” So, hey, guess what: Fill up your car tonight, prices are gonna spike tomorrow. I’m looking at charities. I’m looking for advice on the most productive ways to put a few dollars to good use. Assume for the moment that I can’t be troubled to get off my fat ass and go build a house or something. What charities seem to be doing the most actual, on-the-ground good for . . . → Read More: Charitable giving A musician I know wrote this some time ago: . . . → Read More: Sad story redmed went to a funeral and I went to a beer festival. How shallow is that? What a racket. Tickets were $30, the exhibitors paid to be there, and the exhibitors brought the beer. Pure profit. I’ve got to learn to think like that. It was basically 1,500 people who paid $30 for an all-you-can-drink . . . → Read More: Beer festival The most recent National Geographic had four of the most amazing pictures I’ve ever seen of a big cat attack: http://cdwan.org:8080/tiger/tiger.html The tiger and her cubs had been killing livestock, so they were going to move them away from the village. They found and moved the cubs, but didn’t locate mom. This was from the . . . → Read More: Tiger rage I’m aware that I’m a little behind the times. I just discovered the Black Eyed Peas. They’re bouncy hip hop with fun backup vocals and unapologetic synth straight out of the 80s. I like it. There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. |
