Yes, it’s the tentative return of the Tohu Bohu Book Club, discussing the fourth chapter of Better Together. We started with the Introduction, and had a good start on that, then had another interesting discussion about Valley Interfaith and house…
Having mentioned my bedtime reading habits, it’s probably a good time to record that the first bedtime book of 2004 was Moo, a remarkable and hilarious novel of life at a large research university in the Great American Midwest. I’ll…
In Which Your Humble Blogger compares the book to Monopoly in Spain.
Among the good things about winning last night’s game is the fact that now, whatever happens this afternoon, we start the last day of the season with a chance to play another game. Even if the Giants lose today, and…
While Your Humble Blogger is ruminating about the debate, Gentle Readers may want to peruse this note by Mark Liberman over at the Language Log. He uses an interesting tool to look at the words that one speaker used more…
I have a couple of points to make about the joint press appearance, none of which is particularly interesting or important, but then there are other places to go for that. First, the most entertaining part, for YHB, was watching…
I may or may not write about the joint press appearance in detail, but I do have one question: did y’all get the split-screen, or was it just C-SPAN’s feed? …
A quick note before the debate begins: given that most of the undecided voters don’t have any idea—I mean any idea—what is actually going on in Iraq, and given that the fundamental question of this election really is whether the…
OK, here’s where those of us who listen to jazz get all cranky about how the database hearts of music players don’t accommodate us. No, there’s no need to get started about orchestral music, which certainly deserves its own players…
I heard about Brewster Rockit: Space Guy from one of those LJ friend of a friend of a why-am-I-wasting-time sort of things. It isn’t what I’d call original: vain and ignorant male captain, hypercompetent female second-in-command, mad scientist, black humor…
