The Big Dig We Must
It’s somehow comforting to realize that, after all the years of construction, heavy machinery, foundation problems, and everything, the biggest threat to the two big sections of the Big Dig opening on time is… software. Or, more precisely, software plus all the infrastructure needed to run it. (Why is it that no one thinks until [...]
There’s good news…
An unexpected letter today from my friend Dan in DC. A while back when I was singing with Suscipe Quaeso Domine (aka the Suspicious Cheese Lords), we used to joke about doing a joint concert with the Mediaeval Baebes. (The Baebes were founded by Katharine Blake from Miranda Sex Garden and exemplified a female version [...]
Off back East
I’m flying back to Boston tonight to recruit at MIT Sloan tomorrow and Wednesday. Blogging will be accordingly light, unless I can find a decent WiFi hotspot near Kendall Square–one that’s not restricted by MIT.more…
Summing up undergrad in half an hour
The recruiting panel for the University of Virginia last night was fun. Assistant Dean Shawn acquitted himself nobly. The panel discussion was good, though at one point a bit awkward (“What’s the alcohol policy? And how many students drink anyway? And what about outside the dorms?” Umm…). At the end, we were asked to sum [...]
Mario in the house
We watched Mario Batali make orecchiette with sausage and broccoli rabe yesterday afternoon in front of a large crowd at the Festa Italiana Seattle. He was appropriately fun and informative, explaining the rationale behind using hard semolina flour for his orecchiette, then busting a little on Emeril (he added a clove of garlic to the [...]
Adam: the politics of talking
In a pair of good blog entries, Adam discusses the thought process that goes into participating in class discussions at HBS. For that matter, a lot of the thought process is the same at Sloan. I like the point about stale hands. I think the same is true about other discussion forums. There’s nothing more [...]
iSync, therefore iAm
With my wireless dead, it took me a day to find out that iSync had finally been released (in beta). Pluses: great interface, reasonable speed syncing to my iPod and my .Mac account. Minuses: didn’t detect my iPod automatically when plugged in (there’s a “Scan for devices” button); my sync’d address book doesn’t show up [...]
Rainy Seattle day
We got Larry safely off yesterday after wandering the Public Market for a while. (In case you were wondering, the Athenian Inn is long on atmosphere and view, short on staff and food.) We decided to go to see Mario on Sunday and napped and gardened yesterday prior to going to dinner at Arvind and [...]
Old home week
In addition to being Mario weekend, it’s also Old Glee Club Friends weekend. Larry is here staying with us tonight, and on Sunday I’ll be in a panel discussion with my old fellow singer Shawn Felton. I haven’t been around this many friends from Virginia since the last time someone got married.more…
Wireless gateway resources
Apple hasn’t adjusted its price points downwards on its wireless networking gear to compensate for the general industry trend. This is ironic, because Apple was a prime mover in making WiFi more popular and therefore driving prices down. The net effect is that I&8217;m wondering whether I should look elsewhere for a replacement wireless router. [...]
Wireless hiatus
The good news: Doc got his base station back (the one that was lost a month ago at Linux World). The bad news: my original graphite base station has bitten the dust. It continuously flashes amber and red lights (before now it would intermittently cycle into red and then back to normal functioning). It’s outside [...]
Oh god, tear my ears from my head
That wasn’t really Colin Hay from Men at Work in the first few minutes of the season premiere of Scrubs, was it??? Oh god. He just took it up an octave in that early-eighties Sting manque kind of way. I guess it is.more…
Birth of the Bush Doctrine
Greg points to the Al Gore speech and points out some interesting parallels between now and 1991, when the campaign was under way and Gore was part of a team hammering Senior about the economy. Because of Greg’s link, I finally went back and read Gore’s speech. And I have to say, I’m actually pretty [...]
Lyric revisionism in service of products
Just heard the first commercial to use music from Moby’s new album 18 (as opposed to his completely licensed album Play): an Intel commercial using “We Are All Made of Stars.” To begin with, using Moby’s song for a commercial promoting burning mix CDs is pretty cool. However, they revised the chorus: Instead of “People [...]
I know what I’m doing this weekend
Mario Batali will be at the Festa Italiana Seattle this weekend. I will be there to make sure Lisa doesn’t throw herself at him . Too bad I’m bad at bocce.more…
