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Well, fall is upon us. I’m either drugged or sneezing. It’s awesome. Flying back to Norfolk (pronounced “Naw-fuck”) Virginia today to do the second round of work with NASA. I’m back on Wed night. Friday, Jen and I fly to Michigan to become Godparents for Z, and M’s new daughter, D. Along the way, . . . → Read More: Fall I made a recipe out of my new book, “Successful winemaking at home,” the “carrot whiskey. In point of fact, it’s a wine made from carrots, plus 4 pounds of sugar, some wheat, some raisins, plus oranges and lemons. So, it’s 100% weird, if not 100% carrot. It’s also not distilled. Don’t ask me, I . . . → Read More: Hooch For all my statistics-lovin’, concerned-about-the-human-condition homeboys out there, you should consider looking in on Hans Rosling. Though he is not as physically attractive as you, he is both more articulate and smarter than you. Or at least, than me. Judge for yourself. Go watch the TED talk, then go to http://gapminder.org and play with his . . . → Read More: Hans Rosling I slept until, like, 9:40 this morning. Apparently, I was wiped out from being onsite. This almost always happens. I opened my laptop this morning to see this, which I had forgotten that I had written while leaned up against the outer wall of some airline’s “gold elite” club, sucking their free wireless signal: The . . . → Read More: It’s just the rain Work done: Beer me. Oh yeah, the directions from my hotel indicate that I should turn left on “Lumpkin St”. No kidding. “Lumpkin.” Im a’ take a picture. For the interested, things are going much more smoothly this morning. I attribute it to a combination of “daylight,” and “sleep.” New essay is up, composed in an airport: On Happiness Well that sucked, but it’s over now. I’ve been around, and I thought I had seen most of the behaviors of airports. Here’s a new one: I was in the Providence airport and the power went out. Eventually, backup generators kicked in and the display boards rebooted, but everything else remained off, except the infernal . . . → Read More: Travel Wow. Orange alerts suck. I made it through security in decent time. Everyone was really cheerful and friendly, but they’ve upped the ante to “all shoes must be removed.” I’m actually in something of a rush, or else I might have used words like “decline” and “disrobe,” but I don’t really want to know what . . . → Read More: Travel Went on the fishing trip today. It was a total junket, but that’s okay. I’ll post pictures at some point. We retained 8 “stripers” of legal size, and released a heck of a lot more. I felt sort of bad about the whole “killing sentient beings” aspect of it … but if I’m going to . . . → Read More: Good things |
