January 2010 – Page 2 – Jarrett House North

Grab bag: Shawn Moore is back

Shawn Moore Joining UVa Football Staff (The Good Ol Blog)

“Shawn Moore, former star quarterback at Virginia, is joining Mike London’s football staff at UVa.” Or in other words, hell yeah.

(tags: uva football)
An N Server Cutoff Multi-Priority Queue (MIT Operations Research Center)

Interesting (old) paper on the mathematics behind priority queuing systems.

(tags: statistics operationsmgmt)
Seiji Ozawa diagnosed with cancer – Exhibitionist

Best wishes to the maestro and hopes for a speedy recovery.

(tags: music bso seiji)

We haven’t taken down our Christmas tree yet. Sometimes I fantasize about just sticking the whole thing away, decorations and all, and hauling it out next year ready to go. But these guys did one better: they launched it. On 32 model rocket boosters (Estes D boosters, to be exact). Watch:

(Okay, it’s not really a tree, but who cares? It’s still one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.)

Grab bag: London hacking

30th anniversary of The Clash’s London Calling (Boing Boing)

Among the greatest albums ever.

(tags: music)
Kodak picture frame hack (Boing Boing)

Pwning your neighbor’s picture frame for fun and profit!!!!111!!! Note: if the picture frame responds to ping or one of half a dozen other protocols, you can probably find the MAC address remotely too. Just sayin’.

(tags: security)

Grab bag: Apple buys Quattro

Report: Apple will buy Quattro Wireless – Daily Business Update – The Boston Globe

Congrats to my friends at the Waltham based mobile advertising firm.

(tags: apple)
Repertory Theatre’s Brad Graham dies | Culture Club | STLtoday

Noting the passing of the coiner of the word “blogosphere.” (Hat tip to Tin Man).

(tags: blog obit)

The Virginia Glee Club Wiki: live history

I’ve been busy recently, in my capacity as historian of the Virginia Glee Club Alumni and Friends Association, launching the next stage of the Virginia Glee Club history project: the Virginia Glee Club Wiki. Currently at 29 articles and growing, the wiki is intended as an authoritative repository of all sorts of Glee Club history.

Why a new wiki? There’s a lot of material that is relevant to the Glee Club’s history (biographies of lesser known Club members like J. A. Morrow, tour information, newspaper clippings) that does not meet Wikipedia’s standards of notability. I also felt it was important to have a more topic centered approach to presenting information about the group’s history than I can do with this blog. Finally, I wanted a platform that other Club folks could contribute to.

The wiki is still in its early days, but already there are some interesting directions emerging. I’ll highlight some of the new articles over the next few days.