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Strangely, I want to see a movie about people. “Venus,” specifically. I heard an interview with Peter O’Toole as I was driving home this evening, and I’m hooked. He sounds like such a wonderfully erudite actor. My favorite quote from the story (go ahead and click on the “Listen” link) is: If someone asked me . . . → Read More: Movies . . . → Read More: Vignettes, crono-inverted Current statistics indicate that 95% of all the email that comes to my primary email address is thrown away before it hits my mailbox. Another 55% of the remaining is tagged by spamassassin as junk. Apple’s spam filter catches another bunch, and sorts it all into a junk folder. That junk folder is averaging 150 . . . → Read More: Email * Understand sustainable public health and infrastructure building in developing nations (mostly Haiti). Meet Paul Farmer. Save some people from preventable death. * Reconcile intellectual atheism with a moral mandate to do good in the world. Explain it in a compelling manner. Start a national movement which will make it possible for atheists to “come . . . → Read More: To do I’m all buzzed over the new apple “iphone”. It looks revolutionary. Real time feed from Job’s keynote It’s an ipod, a phone, and a PDA. It has one button (“on”), and the rest of the interface is a “multi touch” screen. It connects via Wi-Fi to the internet, and it runs a real operating system . . . → Read More: Fanboy One of my old a cappella groups from Michigan is having their 20 year reunion this year. With amazing thoughtfulness (for them) they decided to tell the alumni about it a couple of months in advance. Bravo! Wahoo! However, they picked the very weekend on which I already have tickets to go see the Tallis . . . → Read More: Music Bee-hold: Bee Wars I have vague sadness for the bees, but also sympathy for the humans. This *is* the toy on which kids play … you know. The bees have the whole world to choose from. What a great weekend. Sunday, capital_l and technolope came down for a long afternoon starting with brunch, and including flying machines, video games, and finally pizza and port. Good times all around. Today, I’m getting myself in trouble. The theme might well be “drain the wound and let the healing begin.” Obtained a second airport express and plugged the existing speakers in the living room into it. This means that I can play music from my laptop to any subset of (its own speakers, the living room, the kitchen). Rock. Go me. Another bottle of the Ivory Tower “volunteered” by blowing its cork clear up to . . . → Read More: Brewing again… |
