Went down to Dot this afternoon, to dig around in what I had left at my mom’s house. She’s in the process of getting it ready to go on the market, and I just needed to make sure that nothing important got sold in the process.
Also had dinner at the Ashmont Grill. I’ve [...]
Slate has a nice article on why Mitt Romney needs to stop making polygamy jokes if he wants to be a serious presidential contender in a year or two.
I still don’t understand how the man ever became governor of Massachusetts. If you want proof that the Massachusetts Democratic Party is a little bit goofy, [...]
Ditched out on class today, after turning in my paper, because I was feeling pretty awful.
On the way home, walking through the Davis Square T Station, I noticed a large pile of boxes; 40 of them in all, labeled “Kone” (which happens to be the name of the T’s escalator repair vendor). As [...]
I showed the picture above to my students yesterday, in company with pictures of a couple of other labs over at MIT (built, respectively, in the early 1960’s and the late 1980’s). I asked them to compare them, and which one they liked the most.
One student, Isaiah, had this to say:
“It looks like a [...]
My sister, on a bicycle adventure yesterday, dropped off some coffee. Some amazing, wonderful coffee from Flat Black. I’m having a nice steaming cup of Sumatra this morning, and enjoying it immensely. (I tend to make my coffee a little strong; not quite oil-consistency, but heading in that direction. This particular [...]
“Morale was deteriorating, and it was all Yossarian’s fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
- Catch-22
I’m not sure what it was about this quote that jumped out at me this morning, but something did.
For those who haven’t read it (or [...]
Went to see V for Vendetta tonight. Excellent movie, one of the better ones that I’ve seen recently. I understand why parallels have been drawn to the Bush administration, particularly after the line “Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.”
My favorite line of the movie, though: “A revolution without dancing is not [...]
I’m getting old or something. I seem to remember that not too long ago I could just get up, start exercising, and not have to worry about stretching out or anything. These days, it seems like that’s not working so well for me. 90 minutes of basketball today, and I can actually [...]
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Jason, Justin and I were all at Chicago at the same time, and I’ve played disc with Seth. Cool kids all. And the pics are amazing.
And I’m making my call: 81-81 on the season, 3rd place in the division.
Discuss.
Michael Green is heading to Pomona College. That’s great for him, but too bad for all them UofC kids.
Yesterday’s Pressbox column talks about a new paper by a couple of UChicago economists. They’ve analyzed the role of economics in determining media bias in the United States, with interesting results: to wit, competitive pressures will have a mitigating effect on natural bias.
That said, though the math may work, I’m not sure [...]
Class today covered intellectual property law, mostly copyright and plagiarism. Which is interesting, to some degree.
But we didn’t really touch on new technologies, patents and trademarks and all of those areas of intellectual property law. I would have liked to; in some ways, it’s a departure from journalism, but there are [...]
Yummy.