Monday, August 28, 2006

View of Montebello Road from last Wednesday Morning's Ride

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This was taken from the Motorola Razr camera phone I had with me. The picture quality sucked, but I think it captured the mood very well. ...

The wedding took place at the Greens Restaurant

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in San Francisco, which is located right next to the Long Now foundation , which is very much worth a visit if you're there. Christine...
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Congratulations to Christine & Tom for their wedding

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Video Review: Root of All Evil

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This video comes in 2 parts. Part I introduces religious faith, interviews several people, and discusses how faith is the antithesis of re...
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Friday, August 25, 2006

Sylvia Nasar & David Gruber discuss the unravelling of the Poincare Conjecture

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This is a great article. For one thing, it tears away at the veil behind Mathematics and the orderly proofs of great conjectures, and gets a...
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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Review: Accelerando

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In this novel [e-book-link] , Charles Stross explores the consequences of a Vingian Singularity --- how would one come about, and how could...
Friday, August 18, 2006

Exit Clov at Google

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I will admit that I dislike most of the bands brought in to Google to perform at the Social TGIF --- they are usually over-amplified and und...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

Review: Tomorrow Happens

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This is a rare book that was available at the Mountain View Library , and was very much worth reading. David Brin is one of the most thoug...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

Review: Neverwhere DVD

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Before Neverwhere was a book , it was a TV series. I enjoyed the book enough to become curious about the TV series, so when I saw it in the...
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Friday, August 04, 2006

Review: Wonder Woman: Second Genesis

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John Byrne was responsible for the most recent reboot of Superman in the comics. The reboot was quite well done by comic book standards, m...

Book Review: Anansi Boys

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I've always enjoyed many of Gaiman's short stories, such as the ones collected in Smoke and Mirrors . His longer works, however, suc...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Noam Schreiber on The Pro Growth Progressive

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I reviewed the Pro Growth Progressive last year, and it looks like Noam Schreiber shares many of the same frustrations I have --- the Demo...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

WSJ.com - Web Start-Ups Lure Executives At eBay, Yahoo

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WSJ.com - Web Start-Ups Lure Executives At eBay, Yahoo : A midlevel software engineer who manages engineers and reports to the vice presiden...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

Movie Review: Big Fish

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This is a movie about two men. One, the father, loves stories, the more elaborate the better. The taller the better. No truth should go unva...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Review: The Two Income Trap

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Note: The first chapter of The Two Income Trap is available online. The thesis of this book is that the increasing number of bankruptcy i...
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Review: A Long Way Down

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Nick Hornby's last book, How to Be Good was absolutely hilarious, as was his earlier work, High Fidelity. A long way down starts at t...
Friday, July 28, 2006

The Landis Case: Waiting for the B sample; Pereiro reluctantly poised to take jersey; Landis takes pass on Leno

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The Landis Case: Waiting for the B sample; Pereiro reluctantly poised to take jersey; Landis takes pass on Leno It's quite possible that...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Another lameness about the Mac Mini

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My brother and I tried to setup skype on my Mac Mini. The software installs fine, but the stupid mike wouldn't work. After swapping micr...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Morning Ride up Montebello Road and Black Mountain

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Mark Logan and John Walker joined Matt Stanton and I at the base of Montebello Road. The climb was in the sun and quite warm, so by the time...

Review: The Hallowed Hunt

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If The Paladin of Souls was a disappointment, the Hallowed Hunt make up for it. In contrast to the nervous nellie that Ista was, the lead c...