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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/dec/HQ_05499_concepts.html NASA wants geniuses to propose “grand visions” for space exploration. The suggested topics include sustainable human presence throughout the solar system and so on. Proposals are due in Feb. Go get the government’s money. The party last night went well. We prepared for 16 to 30 people, and about 8 showed up. S’cool. We all had fun, and the house is stocked with booze and candy for the foreseeable future. Today we drove into town to see the Ansel Adams exhibit at the Museum of Fine Art. It . . . → Read More: Art Thank you, spammers, for yet another thing I really didn’t need to know. There was a large batch of spam in my inbox when I corrected a teensy problem with my web hosting company, and dislodged TWO THOUSAND messages accumulated there since the 9th of December. I get a lot of spam. Anyway, there was . . . → Read More: “Dwa” domains I’m wondering if there’s a cell phone plan that doesn’t suck. I’m currently on Verizon. I hate them, but they have the best network, based on my totally unscientific sampling. I pay around $159/mo for 1400 minutes shared between two phones. That’s the “bottom line on the bill” figure, not the $90/mo they claim such . . . → Read More: Cell phone prices **Broadway** “Eet’s the most wonderful tiiiiiiiiiime of the yeeeeeeer” **/Broadway** 35 degrees, and steadily raining this morning as I made my way to the train for one more round of “hide and go debug the memory interlacing issue”. I realized on the plane yesterday that I’m definitely the old guy now. The flight was totally . . . → Read More: Slush I’ve had an exciting couple of days. Here’s a hella-long brain dump about my adventures. It’s presented (mostly) in reverse chronological order, because I like to review from the present back as far as I feel like going. . . . → Read More: Tampa In Palm Beach Gardens, at the Hampton Inn. $169 a night. It feels like such a ripoff. Especially given that I had to use google to find out that there is a restaurant in the Mariott next door. The guy at the desk tried to send me to some “ale house” a mile and a . . . → Read More: Travel, again Except, now you do. create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands Okay, now I know I’m getting old. I actually sorta like the early train. This is the 6:40 train, which is the last one with which I can basically guarantee a spot in the parking lot that’s both closer to the train and $2 rather than $3. It’s populated with hardcore commuters who are quiet . . . → Read More: Early train Last night we drove into Boston after the thundersnow (yes! thundersnow! score!) to see the Tallis Scholars. It was the most amazing concert I’ve been to in years. . . . → Read More: Tallis Scholars |
