From The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, by Roy Porter: Writing this book has not only made me more aware than usual of my own ignorance; it has brought home the …
Eating roasted carrots and reading case law make a good Sunday afternoon. PG&E v. Drayage has a funny smackdown (the "When the court interprets a contract on this basis" paragraph) and a citation of Black's …
My column this week remembers a tough bug to reactivate. Which bug tracker would God use? It is one of the sillier questions I've asked. In computer programming, we use special programs to keep track …
"The Toxicity of Recreational Drugs" by Robert S. Gable explains: for any given drug, there's a dose that's usually lethal, and there's a dose that usually produces a high. How different these doses are, i.e., …
So maybe hours of D&D + an hour of Battlestar Galactica + a conversation with my mother (though that was pretty nice) give me bad dreams. Hoo boy, that was dystopian. I also blame "When …
Last night Leonard and I played with Alice, a fun learning-to-program package that lets one play with 3D objects. And he and I wrote a small interactive fiction game using Inform 7. It's called "Brrrasaurus!" …
My column this week: in search of lost time. "Here." She passed me a bottle of water and a tiny envelope with a pill or two inside. I'd never taken a sedative before, unless you …
Tonight's D&D game Tonight's Battlestar Galactica party at my place a list of women who are indisputably exerting tech leadership John Darnielle, specifically, "Thirty Short Poems About My Favorite Black Metal Band" (I also like …
Compare "Every class period, I will tell you a lie" to "Cattywumpus". The former I don't mind nearly so much. This brings up nagging ethics debates I've had recently with disagreeable people and new friends, …
OK, a few NYT links and then a commentary. Paris and relationships, anorexia and struggle, and Michael Lewis's classic "The Satellite Subversives". Oh, and I'll also throw in Adam K.'s Clifford Pickover parody for no …
