Yes, I was in the glee club. And the chess team, too.
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Bulk update. Time marches on, and already the beginning of the week fades into the mist: * Mother and sister came to town. We went to Block Island and rented mopeds to scoot around. It was awesome. After that, we went to the Pumpkin Spectacular. This morning there were waffles with cherry conserve, and a . . . → Read More: Many things…
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Mom and sister are in town. Went to the vegetarian restaurant this evening. Tomorrow, off to Block Island, and then to the Pumpkin Spectacular in the evening. If we’re feeling really adventurous, we might even crack a bottle of the carrot wine. Who knows? Long week. That’s about all I have to say about that. So, every Libyan schoolchild will have a laptop in pretty short order. I’ve babbled about the $100 laptop project before … and now it’s real. For further details, go check out John Negroponte’s talk at TED. For its $250 million investment, Libya will receive 1.2 million computers, one server per school, a team of . . . → Read More: Laptops and clusters Many things happened this weekend: Yesterday, I cooked down $20 worth of tomatoes into 5 quarts of spaghetti sauce and a gallon of tomato juice. technolope and capital_l made the trek down from Boston, and we went to a pick-yer-own apple farm. While there, we reveled in the pumpkin field (so orange!), and picked . . . → Read More: Weekend codename: Canning Frenzy The Harvard Bookstore Readers Series looks pretty incredible. Thanks to medyani for pointing it out to me. I think I’ll be going to Dawkin’s talk on the 19th. Unfortunately, Paul Farmer is already sold out. In other news, I think that I’ll be making spaghetti sauce (for canning) today with the $20 basket of tomatoes . . . → Read More: Authors and Apples I just wasted a day, dithering around rather than making decisions. I just watched Richard Dawkins’ TED talk. You should go watch it too. . . . → Read More: I just An article in the Rolling Stone asks about voting machines, and whether they can be systematically tampered with. Their conclusion is that if the machines are centrally administered by a private firm (as is the case in Georgia, Florida, and Ohio), and if standards for the machines are lax (apparently, nobody knows how to certify . . . → Read More: Conspiracy theory Todd, of the Mighty Hammer Brewery, sends a horrifying update about a fire in a hops warehouse. Fires have long been an expensive danger at hop warehouses, largely because of the potential for spontaneous combustion from heat buildup in bales of resin-loaded varieties. The new album by Evanescence rocks. I don’t think it’s as brilliant as their last one, but it’s still damn good. |
