21 Jun 2008, 9:48 a.m.

Zurek Tip

If you want sourdough soup in New York City, use the MenuPages find-a-food search and search for "white borsch," "white borscht," and "zurek" in Brooklyn, the East Village, and the Lower East Side. In general, …

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19 Jun 2008, 16:14 p.m.

Semifinal Thoughts

Zed wrote me several weeks ago with some research on Trollope and the "metropolitan moon". He gave me permission to post it so here goes: The context was a spat between Trollope and the Anglican …

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19 Jun 2008, 16:00 p.m.

Summy-Come-Lately Nitpicks B5

Babylon 5 has enraptured the Harihareswara-Richardson household; we're up to 4 or 5 episodes a week. Quick review, halfway through the first season: I love the political intrigue and much of the dialogue, but Sinclair …

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17 Jun 2008, 12:37 p.m.

In Which I Am Suddenly Michael Lopp

World of Warcraft is the new golf. Battlestar Galactica is the new baseball.

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14 Jun 2008, 22:22 p.m.

Brick To The Back Of The Head

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 …

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06 Jun 2008, 6:58 a.m.

I Am Never Going To Meet My Lawyer

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 …

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05 Jun 2008, 13:55 p.m.

Aside

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 …

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03 Jun 2008, 9:00 a.m.

Weird Things

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 …

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02 Jun 2008, 9:10 a.m.

Quick Reviews

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 …

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29 May 2008, 7:15 a.m.

Work Quip

"Tuesdays With Morrie? Didn't that turn out to be fabricated?" "He didn't really meet those five people in heaven."

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