Brief but happy
Went to the Lui Collins house concert in Palo Alto tonight. I was a bit concerned about attending two concerts...
Flo control and image recognition
Very cute article about using image-recognition software to control a latch on a cat door, thereby preventing the cat (named...
Carroll on the Middle East, again
Jon Carroll continues to be one of the few people I see discussing the Israel/Palestine situation who shows much awareness...
Sensible decisions
Note: the following contains opinions only; I don't know enough about the facts of the case to make statements of...
Hold the last note out
When Lui Collins sent me the CDs I'd ordered a couple weeks back, she included a postcard showing her upcoming...
Forward, into the past!
According to this Boston Globe article, U. Connecticut physics professor Ronald Mallett has an idea for how to build a...
Grumpy Jed
Lots of mood swings lately. Tonight's the second time in a week that I've been struck by an unaccountable bout...
Minor milestone
Strange Horizons received its 3000th fiction submission today. That's an overall average of a bit under five submissions a day...
Historical perspective
Article in the San Francisco Chronicle gives a historical overview of copyright law, in light of the new Consumer Broadband...
More lack of solutions
Jon Carroll's column today doesn't provide any deep wisdom or solutions to the Israel/Palestine mess, but it does provide a...
Short
I think it's been a bit over four months since I last got a haircut. It was getting to the...
Ring ring
My cell phone rang. Who would be calling me this time of night? I thought. I was driving, but I...