Just back from the Wildwood beach ultimate tourney. It’s a great weekend, lots of fun on the beach, lots of craziness on Saturday night, a general excuse to get together, play some disc, and party with friends.
FNG ended up 3-3; none of our games were particularly close, they tended to be big wins or [...]
How well do you guess you guess?
Take the Estimation Quiz. I got a 24%. Oh, yeah. I rule. Or something.
So I’m reading a mailing list earlier today, and happen across one particular exchange. One guy had asked a question, another had responded with part of an answer, the first guy clarified, the second guy passed along a web link to a page that answered the question (or close to it).
The first guy replied [...]
For those who hadn’t noticed, and it would be easy not to, Mumbai (aka Bombay) was buried by torrential rains this week. By torrential, I mean 3 feet plus in less than a day. That’s a lot of rain.
As Jayadev points out, this is roughly equivalent to New York City getting 3 feet [...]
Reading the latest on Anna’s blog (instead of working) and it got me to thinking…
Specifically, it got me wondering how I feel about being a number in people’s lists of other people. I’m not sure that sentence really makes sense, but I think it will if you go read Anna’s blog.
I think that in [...]
I’ve been re-reading The Big U, Neal Stephenson’s first novel. It’s a rather dark comedy about the downfall of “American Megaversity.” For those who consider themselves intellectuals, or who like novels, or who are just curious about my brain, I strongly recommend it.
For those who have never read his work, Stephenson has written [...]
Spent the weekend down in Madison, Connecticut, playing with FNG at Mud 2005.
It was, without exception, the worst-run tournament I’ve ever attended. I mean, it was terrible. We got the fields for a 8:30 captain’s meeting on Saturday. The captain’s meeting started 15 minutes late, and failed to mention things [...]
Yesterday brought with it, among other things, the first update from Rachel (Lindner, for those who are confused) from her current billet in Ghana. She’s working in Accra for Journalists for Human Rights.
Since I know that at least a few of the people who read this blog aren’t lucky enough to be on Rachel’s [...]
Much disturbing randomness going on today.
Piece of disturbing randomness number one: I get an IM from someone whose screen name I don’t recognize. I’m very confused. I write back “Hi, who is this?” The response is “Hi, we went on a bad date a long time ago. Were you at [...]
There was a time when I considered myself to be better than average with the English language. As a matter of fact, I still do. (I also consider myself to be very humble; you can judge these beliefs for yourself.)
I read Norman Mclean and Dave Eggers and Kurt Vonnegut and think to myself [...]
Today was the most boring day ever.
1300 miles of driving over the past 3 days have left me with very stiff muscles in my legs.
I have sworn off open-casket anything, forever.
Pepperoni pizza is very good. I think Angelina’s may put crack in their’s.
Headed to Anna’s in a few, just watching a movie…nice and relaxing. [...]
…where you’re just in a bad mood, don’t really want to deal with people, and yet you have to?
And not only that, the people that you’re having to deal with are being remarkably dumb?
Yeah, I’m having one of those.
An example. When you log in to the voicemail system at work, you’re greeted with this [...]
My paternal grandmother died this morning, rather suddenly. She’s been feeble, in a home with full-time care, for many years. But she seemed healthy.
I really wasn’t at all close to her, so it isn’t a big loss for me. By that I mean only that it wasn’t a loss on the [...]
I was reminded today, several times, of a piece on an old episode of This American Life. Specifically, the piece is a monologue (there’s no better word for it) by Sarah Vowell, explaining what happens when she tries all of the advice she can find to cure insomnia.
The best part of the whole thing [...]
Jabe is playing the Lizard Lounge July 15th (solo), and again on August 5th (with a full band).
Good stuff. Worth going to.
When I say “The King”, of course, I’m referring to King Kaufman, the sports columnist for Slate.
He devoted part of his Friday column to Katie Brownell donating her jersey to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Her jersey was requested after she threw a perfect game in Little League this [...]
Less than 18 hours after the London Bombings, wikipedia already has a massive entry. Included are details on everything from the timeline and economic damage, transcripts of the dispatch radio messages to buses, and worldwide responses.
The page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_London_transport_explosions.
This is the first time I know of that an encyclopedia has also been used [...]
For those who were surprised by today’s bombings in London, you shouldn’t have been. They were predictable. In fact, on March 16, 2004 Chris Hitchens wrote for Slate that they were nearly inevitable. And they were. The attack on the World Trade Center, too, was predictable; we just like to tell [...]
I thought I’d try a new theme. Nothing against the default theme, but something that I don’t see a dozen times a day seemed like it would be a good idea.
I settled on Rin after checking out a number of options. I happened to stumble across it when browsing the entrants in Alex [...]
I thought I’d try a new theme. Nothing against the default theme, but something that I don’t see a dozen times a day seemed like it would be a good idea.
I settled on Rin after checking out a number of options. I happened to stumble across it when browsing the entrants in Alex [...]