Bizarre computer behavior, wacky Comcast behavior
A couple hours ago, I plugged in my iPhone to sync it to my computer. A series of iTunes dialog...
Productive, more or less
Today I completed the first 15 items on my to-do list. (Plus a few other things that weren't on the...
Improv Everywhere in San Francisco this afternoon! (And Chicago tomorrow)
Improv Everywhere is running one of their Mp3 Experiment events in San Francisco this afternoon--two hours from now, which presumably...
Online Encore
I still haven't figured out the right way to balance my language blog with my main blog. Whenever I post...
Underestimating Palin
There seems to be a general sense among liberals, and even among some conservatives since the Couric interview, that Gov....
Palin/Couric sketch on SNL
Most of you who care have presumably seen the segment of Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin in which Palin...
~Gasp! It’s … REAL!~
I've seen a bunch of stories in the last couple of weeks that boil down to this quasi-plot: Someone encounters...
David Foster Wallace on tourism
Recently came across an interesting footnote about tourism (specifically about Americans being tourists in small-town or rural America) in David...
The trouble with groups
Several years ago, Clay Shirky gave an excellent talk titled "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy." (Link is to...
Wicked fairies and christenings
Way back in late 2000 or early 2001, Palo Alto mainstay Stacey's Bookstore was having a going-out-of-business sale, and Nao...
Philadelphia: Secret Theater, tonight and tomorrow
It's the "second annual five-company Shakespearian Secret Dessert Theater"! The last two nights of it are tonight and tomorrow night....
Beaker sings “Ode to Joy”
For the past couple years, this guy wzauscher has been posting videos of himself singing various classical works in multiple...