There she goes, my beautiful world
Tom, a friend I am sadly estranged from, has described a deep spiritual connection to this place. I’ve never been here before, but I’m not sure that I can say I’ve been here now. It’s nighttime and Matt is driving. Road tripping is great fun, but I can’t say I’ve seen much of the lake or the mountain.
I am astounded by the sheer number of stars in the sky. I’m surprised at myself for this. I grew up very … Read the rest
California can be a pretty wacky place sometimes. It’s a pretty heavily polarized state politically, garnering it a reputation (depending on who you ask) of extreme conservatism and of radical liberalism. It’s part of what makes it interesting to live here, and exciting to be a part of the voting constituency.
I received in the mail today my voter pamphlet. There’s a primary election coming up, and there are over a dozen propositions for us to vote on. Some of … Read the rest
According to reports by a member of the epitasis-list, the Xando coffee bar has closed.
Now most of us here on the West Coast probably think that the problems of two little coffedrinkers in this crazy world don’t amount to a hill of beans, but…
Well, It’s a special place. I’ll explain:
On the corner of Elm and Park Streets in New Haven, Connecticut there is a large brick building which was at one time a firehouse. After the … Read the rest
Been hearing all about the Year 2000 bug these days. In a little over a year civilization as we know it will collapse into utter chaos. Or, depending on who you ask, nothing at all will happen and nobody needs to worry about a thing because it’s all taken care of. Or anyway, it will be all taken care of by the time it matters. It’s the second group that scares me.
But what is going to happen? I mean, … Read the rest
Last night I ran a POV-Ray benchmark available at Haveland-Robinson Associates’ site thinking I was all hot stuff after getting this 300mHz K‑6 machine. My time was 2 minutes 58 seconds. I went to look at the comparison to other peoples’ results and was immediately humbled by the best time reported: 3 seconds. Actually, I think I can feel pretty good about the fact that my machine is only 60 times slower than a Cray T3E-… Read the rest
Yes, yes, yes… Smoking is a terrible, disgusting, stinky habit. I know. As a former pack-a-day Camel smoker, I’m the last one you need to tell. Yet somehow, I ended up in the following picture:
How did this happen?
Well, I don’t recommend this to other nicotine addicts, as it is certainly «slippery ground». I have been known, since quitting smoking three
years ago to partake in the occasional cigar during special events. In the time since I quit, I’ve
smoked seven … Read the rest
For background, please read the article from news.com.
I don’t know why I care much about the fate of Apple, but I’ve been trying to follow this story along, and I am hopeful about Apple’s future. Although I still wouldn’t buy a Mac for myself (we’ll see how their NeXT-generation machines look? I’m keeping an OpenMind on this issue 🙂 ), I think that Apple has been a great presence in this industry and that it would be a … Read the rest
The news can be such a pit of despair.
Last night I heard the headline on TV, something to the effect of «Convicted rapist kills Florida woman… should he have been walking the streets a free man?» and I prepared myself for what I expected to be a typical reactionary media story. As many times as we hear reports from the liberal media with their own slant (agreed that the media has a slant… tongue in cheek that it is … Read the rest
On Sunday, November 19th 1995 at a few minutes before 4pm I was driving my girlfriend to the train station when a 16 year old driver failed to stop for his red light. There was no time whatsoever to react, and his van collided with my SC2 at about 35mph. I must have heard a noise or caught something in my peripheral vision, because I turned my head in time to see the grill of the … Read the rest