Man, I hope Eric Raymond doesn't talk too long at his 6 o'clock speech tonight. I have to get home by eight for Seventh Heaven. I think I'm joking.
Eric S. Raymond, relatively famous open-source software advocate, speaks to the Cal Linux Users Group and other such people tonight at 6pm in Soda Hall (Wozniak Lounge, 4th floor). I may go. I can remember …
Today, Sydney Omarr says of Martha Stewart that she's "a remarkable Leo; she has implanted the following thought in many: 'To do things right, it must be done the Martha Stewart way!'....She does things the …
I finished Twain's The Innocents Abroad last week. Now I've finished Terry Pratchett's Small Gods (I started it Sunday evening) and begun a Philip K. Dick anthology. The Pratchett and Dick I received as gifts …
Last night's Prairie Home Companion featured a wonderful, euphoria-inducing Rhubarb Pie sketch, which almost made up for an awful, superlatively tasteless song infusing gospel into a The-Day-The-World-Trade-Towers-Fell ballad. And I do mean "full of wonder" …
As at least two of you (viz., Leonard and Adam) know, Leonard and Adam and I visited San Francisco's Exploratorium yesterday. I found myself comparing it favorably with Stockton's Children's Museum of Stockton (a more …
From Friday afternoon:"You should come to our party tomorrow night." "The thing is, I might be cuddling." "Yes, cuddling takes precedence."
I am annoyed both at my own fundamental uncertainty about most things, and/but I am also annoyed at other people's certainty. Seth David Schoen sheds some light on the matter.
Some of the singing groups in Music today -- including mine -- were so rhythm-challenged that we would have gratefully welcomed the intervention of a UN Timekeeping Force.
Hey Adam, thanks for the link to a scrumptious Washington Post story on my Jon Stewart Liebowitz.
