Gay Republican on $5 bill
The LA Weekly has a (politically motivated) article on the long-delayed but now-upcoming book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln....
To Morrow
(A wandery sort of entry that goes nowhere in particular and ends abruptly.) Cindy Kallet is going to be performing...
Pumpkin moon
Twig points out that tonight there'll be a total lunar eclipse, starting at 6:14 p.m. California time and lasting for...
Ada Lovelace’s real job
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, better known these days as Ada Lovelace, is often regarded as the world's first...
Historical slash
Kam and I stopped in the bookstore last night after dinner, and I saw a book titled I Should Be...
My week
I've been exhausted all week. Every evening after work I've been too tired to think much, let alone get any...
No more new Apple laptops this year
An article at MacCentral reveals that there won't be a new PowerBook before the end of the year: If you...
Items: Politics, religion, action heroines, asexuality
I have a vague feeling that the following items sorta kinda go together, even though I can't quite articulate why:...
Day two
Another grumpy morning this morning, but sometime midafternoon I had a nice chat with two of my new co-workers that...
Items: Good news
In an attempt to cheer up myself (have you noticed how HR people and airplane flight attendants always say "myself"...
First day
Today was my first day at Google, and I'm having nearly as hard a time saying anything coherent about it...
Items: Geeky anniversaries
Last Thursday was the tenth anniversary of the announcement of "Netscape network navigator" from "Mosaic Communications Corporation." It was a...