Zack Weinberg once told me that a relative of his had predicted a change in Zack. Zack was about to move to New York City to start at Columbia, and the relative predicted that, after …
Kevan and Holly are here. Evidently it IS possible for me to keep up with them in conversation, but only if they're severely jetlagged. I'll take what I can get. This weekend they're doing Come …
I'll be offline for much of this weekend at a retreat in San Antonio. It looks like my 10-year high school reunion, scheduled for next weekend, is cancelled for want of RSVPs. I'm managing three …
Hulu now features the first two seasons of Babylon 5. Since Leonard and I enjoy Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, we've started on Bab5, which features (I am promised) big old arc-y …
Paddleboating in the Jefferson Memorial basin: harder than I'd thought. Iron Man: extremely fun. The fake Wired cover near the start stakes the claim that Tony Stark has the most badass gadgets EVER. Which he …
"Tuesdays With Morrie? Didn't that turn out to be fabricated?" "He didn't really meet those five people in heaven."
I can't attend much of the World Science Festival because I'll be in Washington, DC this weekend visiting family. I'll be missing Alan Alda, "Seeds, Survival, Stalin," and a bunch of neat dance. However, I …
Every day that I experience a thin sheen of capsaicin-induced sweat on my face is a better day, ceteris paribus.
I have now inhaled Scott Westerfeld's Uglies trilogy, complete with a night where I stayed up till 1:30 reading in bed while Leonard slept, just to finish Specials. Now I'm reading the companion novel, Extras, …
Curtains! and The Counterfeiters are both very good, but I got a kind of whiplash from seeing them a day apart. I walked out of Curtains! with a huge relaxed smile on my face, gloating …
