Safe back in Halifax. Wife and baby already in bed when I got home–might as well catch up on Rome. Normally I would read at this point, but since I already went through two books at the airport–Westerfeld‘s Pretties and the Gischler debut Gun Monkeys)–I think I’m justified in spending an hour or two catching up with Vorenus and Pullo.… Read more →
Category: Storytime
Sappy Dad
Wow, I spent a lot of time today looking at the pictures of Sarah I have on the “baby picture blog” I use to keep the family up-to-date with her development. I have never spent as much time on a trip to Boston (and I’ve made a lot of them in the last 10 years) wanting to go home… Read more →
Dinner with the boss
Had my (annual) dinner with my boss tonight. Dinner ran for about 4 hours, with around 1 hour of social chit chat and 3 hours of work discussion. I talk to him every couple of weeks normally (I love my job) so this isn’t a “let’s catch up on the year” thing, just a chance to actually talk face-to-face. Still,… Read more →
Dispatches From Boston
..well, not really Boston. Since the last time I visited company HQ lots of interesting things have happened, notably including the purchase of the company by a much bigger company, the closing of the old office and movement of people to a different office in nearby Framingham. (Of course, the “Boston” office is also no longer HQ.) I am somewhat… Read more →
Gah. Please kill me.
Wow. Two days of the brutal stomach flu. Let’s summarize: Didn’t eat anything Friday, was awake maybe 8 hours. Didn’t eat anything Saturday until dinner, slept in quite late, and napped 90 minutes longer than my infant child. Managed to keep down four slices of dull pizza–but am currently awake paying for it with some knotted-gut agony. This is the… Read more →
There are some searches you should never do.
No, this is not a post about ass-eels or anything. However, after finding this article at Wikinews… well, between that and the lobsters, I feel I must stop making good-hearted fun of the Minnesota State Fair. That is all. Read more →
Scotland and Nova Scotia
Charlie Stross reports on his LJ that: “The Scottish Socialist Science Fiction Vanguard Party exists, and periodically meets in a pub. I can report that last night’s session was attended by, among other people, comrades Banks and MacLeod, with guest delegate John Meaney from the People’s Reactionary Suburb of Kent. It was resolved that (1) Scotland is even damper than… Read more →
Me==Lucky
Not only is my wife an intelligent, attractive, and happy woman, with a professional career, she’s a pretty great mother too. She also does house painting, and all the yard work. As if that weren’t enough, she’s a pretty good cook as well. This weekend for Thanksgiving she attempted her first turkey. This was also the first time we’ve used… Read more →
Child of Privilege?
So, some of my North End friends made a comment a while back about me growing up in some rich suburb. Now, I am by no means “street”–let’s get that right out of the way–but I certainly didn’t grow up in any kind of gated community. Similarly, I have never been poor–my father was always a white collar worker (albeit… Read more →
A Friday Miscellany
Best paragraph on technology I’ve read today: I don’t think we’ll ever have the feeling of the one place you have to be ever again… Increasingly, the name of the game will be software agents that bring the “places” to you and streamline their interfaces together for you, until it feels once again that there is just one place you… Read more →
Tuesday is poker night
When Mal cashed out at 500% of his buyin, I thought he was surely going to be the champion of the night. Until I cashed out, several hours later, at 1900% of my initial buy in. I believe the phrase here is “Boo-ya-ka!” That is all. (I am going to be so tired tomorrow.) Read more →
Right, about the lobsters…
Look, I can’t even begin to explain this. You’ll have to go read about it. It’s a lot weirder to walk into these things everywhere than it is to read about them. I think I have to stop making fun of the Minnesota State Fair: the beauty pagent-slash-butter sculpture and seed art doesn’t seem so unbeatably weird and regional now. Read more →
War is Bad, Peace is Good…
…and Harlan Ellison is, well, Harlan. Anyone who knows anything about science fiction knows about Harlan, up to and including the fact that he once kind of took out a hit on an editor of his (well, actually a comptroller) over cigarette ads (it’s a funny story when he tells it) Apparently the Penny Arcade guys, didn’t know about Harlan. Read more →
About Movies: DVD Wishlist
A few years ago, around the time I was first considering getting a DVD player (I was a very late adopter of this technology, unlike most things) I commented to some friends that there were 7 movies that really would want to get DVDs of that I suspected would never be released on DVD. These weren’t my absolute favourite movies… Read more →
About Movies: Atlantic Film Festival Blog
I am somewhat saddened that due to a conflation of poor planning, vacation timing, parenthood, and crap at the office, that I won’t be seeing nearly as many films this year at the Atlantic Film Festival as I have in past years. However, my weekly poker pal Carsten (no, you can’t call him Bu’)–one of who’s hats is that of… Read more →
