Went to a meeting of the greythumb group this evening. Cool stuff. Smart people, in many different ways. This month’s speaker talked about synthetic biology and designing organisms from scratch. I’m next month’s speaker. Among the other people there, I met Virgil, the guy who…
Here’s the first sentence from my first post of each month this year. Jan 1, 2:10am: “Help…”Feb 1, 1:10am: “Good times watching the state of the union address.”Mar 1, 3:59pm: “** bleary ** Is it the weekend yet?”Apr 1, 7:51am: “I was watering the seedlings…
Every few years I try to organize my library. On Tuesday, I tried to explain it to technolope and capital_l as a test to see if I’m enlightened yet. It seems to me that an enlightened human being would, at least as a start, have…
FARK is an alternative news source, with funny headlines for stories that he finds online. This one stood out for me: Spanish judge wants to question U.S. troops. In other news, people in hell want refreshing Mike’s Hard Lemonade Also in the news, Monks can…
Below are the first sentences from the first post of each month in 2004 (except for Jan and Feb, in which I did not have a journal). This idea was stolen from too many people to count. It seems to me that art has two…
Spent the morning on the phone with a real, live customer and I may have actually been able to solve his problem. Guy had a cluster, see…and…well…there were some technical details, see…and now he has a WORKING cluster. I think. Then Chris and I met…
Tried to work from home yesterday morning. No dice. The still-packed boxes kept calling out to me: Chris, unpack us, unpack us! Unpack us, you obsessive compulsive freak. You know you can’t rest until we’re unpacked… So I took the 9:50 train in. That sucked…
I heard a conversation on the radio this morning which was a classic example of how to lose (win) a political debate. The topic was transportation policy. The occasion was an ongoing strike of the bus drivers (which sucks all around). The participants were the…