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The Boston in Me
The horrible events at this year’s Boston Marathon have put me in a melancholy mood, and I turned to MetaFilter to make better sense of the senseless tragedy. After reading the thousand-or-so comments that came before, I said (in...
Bikeaversary 01
I'm surprised the last main entry before this one is a note about Steve Jobs’ death. Weird. Much time has passed since and I am finally beginning to feel I understand some of the contours of this new life...
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
one last time…...
Arab Spring Arrives Late in Israel
Source: Israelis march for lower living costsSource: 250,000 Protest Cost of Living in Israel “We know that we cannot achieve everything,” Itzik Shmuly, the chairman of the National Union of Students, acknowledged from the podium in Tel Aviv. “But...
Correction on the Usefuless of Torture
I recently overheard someone explaining that intelligence acquired by means of torture was crucial in determining the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, which determination led to bin Laden’s death by US armed forces. This lie must be exposed as...
Wanna Grab Lunch?
Joel Spolsky»no relation« recently wrote up some of his thoughts about lunching with coworkers. Where and with whom we eat lunch is a much bigger deal than most people care to admit. Obviously, psychologists will tell us, obviously it...
Just Folks
My coffee supply was running low this morning, so I pulled on some jeans and pod-personed the two blocks uphill to my local grocery of predatory prices, Cala Foods»A 50-count bottle of Advil is priced at nearly $9.«. I’d...
Speaking of Flying
The powers-that-be of the United States are having a difficult time understanding the Fourth Amendment. The problems with universal, arbitrary searches are manifold, and present surveillance techniques at US airports are not specific enough for the dangers they ostensibly...
Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
Multiblog Bug Fix Redux
In my haste, I failed to see the error in my logic. I also was led astray by poor white space formatting. Basically, I turned this into this when what I wanted was this (</mt:Else>s omitted) Here’s everything together....
Multiblog Bug Fix
What follows is incorrect and remains for archival reasons only. There is a corrected version. A few days or weeks or hours after restructuring the main page for this blog, I noticed that the layout for blog entries that...
Lunchtime Shell Game on 38 Geary
On Thursday, 13 May, a few of the tech team»and HR« at my work took cabs to Dong Baek, located in the Tenderloin’s northeastern section.1 John Jonathon Leslie Jeffrey Sung Jack Lunch was great, better than I expected.2 I...
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