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Sigh. But I can’t stand to unsubscribe from any of them!

This contest is fun! (Marred by their misspelling of Sanskrit.) I’m quite confident of my answer on ten of them, pretty sure of a couple more, and am much less sure of the remaining four.

This article rather scares me – while there’s a lot I don’t like about the way my country’s government works, I had taken it for granted that laws were actually passed by the House and the Senate. Apparently not, in one recent case: why bother reconciling details between competing versions, if you can find a […]

I can’t wait to see how this turns out. Don’t get me wrong – the proposed law won’t leave us in an ideal situation, but I am glad to see a real stand for openness, and sensible penalties for making unauthorized personal copies. On a related note, I laughed at this quote from an interview […]

Congrats to Alice and Ravi on their new baby!  (Born yesterday, for the record.)

Cleaning out my list of saved links: A visit to the Ghibli museum. Lean manufacturing books are next up on my reading list. I’m glad some Congresspeople are seeing the DRM light… Because the bad guys aren’t about to let up. I repeat: the bad guys aren’t about to let up. Google’s hardly a saint, […]

Last night, I had dinner with friends at Korea House in Santa Clara. (Which I recommend.) They had a raspberry wine on the menu, which I decided to try; it was okay, but the best part was the explanation of the name (punctuation, grammar as in the original): A hungry monk, eating wild black raspberry […]

One of the most pleasant surprises about this townhouse was that we discovered, a few months after moving in, that the trees in between the houses are flowering plums. It’s really beatiful for a week or so every year; like having our own cherry blossom festival. I was hoping to share some pictures with my […]

When I got home this evening, I noticed that one of the dogs had pooped on the carpet. Which sometimes happens; they’re wonderful in many, many ways, but housebreaking is not their forte. Anyways, I took them out, and the phone was ringing as I got back in, so I ran to answer it. Once […]

I believe I have complained here in the past about my DVD/DVR player that crashes periodically. Today, its DVD drive decided to stop reading disks, too. Sigh; by far my worst electronics purchase. And now is not a good time to be spending more money on stuff like that; fortunately, we have enough other devices […]

Yay for boys who like painted nails.

We spent the middle of the day yesterday at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The first time I’d been there; quite nice, I will go back again. Though my favorite part was just listening to Miranda and Jordan talk to each other while they were walking through the galleries together. Anyways, I bought […]

I earlier complained that “if Bush walked into a 7-11, pulled out a gun, and killed everybody there, the papers wouldn’t venture an opinion as to whether or not doing so is illegal”; given the events of recent days, it would seem that I was perhaps a bit pessimistic. Most kind of the executive branch […]

Happy birthday to me. Not that I would describe my current life as a selva oscura; the first half has been pleasant and is ending quite well, and I am optimistic about the second half.

Or at least like it; the episodes don’t do much for me, but the Egg Song is quite something.

It will take me a while to process Plain and Simple. (Which I learned about from the bibliography of the XP book, for what that’s worth.) Some facets: There can be well thought-out, stable systems of behavior that are strong enough to exist for quite some time next to American society without being absorbed. It’s […]

I finally got around to putting up some 2003 pictures of Miranda. Which is good; it was embarrassing to have skipped an entire year. Acceptable when one’s child is older, but, up until recently, she looked quite different from year to year. (And yes, I know there aren’t any 2005 pictures up, either; they will […]

I’ve never been interested in collectible card games, but Perplex City sounds pretty cool. It probably wouldn’t be wise to indulge, though: if I enjoyed it, I would be tempted to spend rather too much money on it…

I’m really not sure what to say.

It turns out that I misinterpreted the comment about not sending the new iPod to me because of the cost. So they will be happy to send it to me, if I or a coworker can’t pick it up in person; it will just take a little while, because the person who would take care […]