Want to hear a horror story about control freak managers? ...The engineers were placed out of the loop regarding what was happening in the standards committee and when they finally agreed on a standard, our …
A woman doing some relaxing work-surfing on the sociology of baby names will give the wrong impression.
In case you didn't see it last week, a lovely and thought-provoking article on memory from the NYT. Includes "dual processing," "neurological," "memory" and "double perception" theories, déjà vécu, presque vu, and jamais vu.
I'll have to add the complete list of Comment Is Free articles by Daniel Davies to my bookmarks. A particularly applicable post: how Davies proposes to deal with abuse from commenters or fellow stockbrokers.
George W. Bush and I agree: Get well soon, Roger Ebert! Today Cody's on Telegraph closes. Joe sent me some pictures from the memorial service. Goodbye, old shop. In memory, via a book blog, some …
I have to get this document scanned. Instead of dealing with the stupid scanner software, I'll just use our fax machine to fax it to ourselves, since any fax to our number gets turned into …
The most intellectually stimulating part of Jesus is Magic (that's not saying much) is now available on YouTube: Silverman's song "Jewish People Driving German Cars". Also on YouTube: videos from Square One TV, specifically Mathnet. …
More melancholy. I can glean no pleasure at all from memories of indiscretions that were fun at the time. I made wince-worthy mistakes with booze, boys and writing. Yes, writing. A moment of bombastic self-indulgence …
I watched the overtime and the penalty kicks at a crowded cafe near my house, where the crowd ran very pro-Italian but gave good sporting cheers to French goals too. The pro-Italian folks celebrated for …
Today some del.icio.us poking-around led me back to the Voyager. Would you rather be a girl named Adah or a boy named Adan? A boy named Carmine or a girl named Princess? A boy named …
