back to work (kinda :) (1) - Monday,  08/08/11  11:12 PM

Today I went back to work. Not really; I have five...  In case you're wondering, this is not Project Q. I've...  Meanwhile it's all happening, a filter pass maestro,...  Saturn weather forecast: rings, with light right from...  Meanwhile: NASA readies Juno spacecraft for mission to...  We saw Crazy, Stupid, Love last night. Well when I...  Other recent movies: Change Up (okay, kind of stupid),... 

November (1) - Sunday,  11/01/09  11:15 AM

Wow, November. October is over, Shirley's Birthday...  I love that I was blogging a year ago, and I love that...  So what do we look forward to now? (I need to think... 

Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:57 PM (1) - Tuesday,  05/05/09  10:57 PM

The Ole filter makes a pass, Cinco de Mayo edition. I...  I've been ruminating on the value of unique names in...  Oh to be a fly on the wall: Jason Kottke blogs about...  Joel Spolsky hits a familiar nail on the head: why...  Horizontal scrolling and the evolution of medical...  Alternative reality: Steve Gillmor says Rest in peace,...  Huh, looks like the Tour of California is moving to... 

Sunday, May 03, 2009 09:49 PM (1) - Sunday,  05/03/09  09:49 PM

Had a nice quiet day, thanks for asking... took it...  My Caltech class of '79 is about to have - ta da - our...  Completely rational: Catholics attack Dan Brown film...  Good question: Why is it so difficult to fire bad...  This is a total classic, the NewTek Video Toaster,...  Here we have an extensive collection of strange and...  SearchEngineLand reviews the Wolfram Alpha "fact... 

Friday, May 01, 2009 08:42 PM (1) - Friday,  05/01/09  08:42 PM

Today was a reasonably good day. Reasonably. I spend...  One month. That's how long it has been since I first...  Are you ready for The Hunt for Gollum? I am. Yee ha!...  So here we have plasma arc speakers. Wow. Just wow. ...  More coolness: Tables with tentacles. These designers...  Congratulations to my favorite physical wine shop, the...  Not only is the Palm EOS real (apparently), but it is... 

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:32 PM (1) - Wednesday,  04/22/09  10:32 PM

Today wasn't as nice weather-wise as yesterday -...  ... but first, a filter pass...  (I generally read my RSS feeds twice a day, once in...  Earth Day predictions from 1970. Aka, why you...  I'm linking this for the gratuitous Creedence...  Apple announced blowout second quarter results -...  This Windows 7 Starter Edition stuff is kind of weird,... 

Monday, April 20, 2009 09:55 PM (1) - Monday,  04/20/09  09:55 PM

Quiet day of work and contemplation... beautiful warm...  Project Q: 0 cycles...  Oil falls to $45. Remember last summer? Wow, how the...  News of the day: Oracle buys Sun. At first glance...  From Caltech's News: Redshift turns Gold for Maarten...  At what point does a 'model' rocket become just a...  Scoble: The newspaper industry just gave away another... 

Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:18 PM (1) - Sunday,  04/19/09  10:18 PM

Greetings... I spent the entire weekend on Project Q,...  Did you enjoy my Scribd excerpt from Gödel Escher...  GEB was published in 1979, and I've read it literally...  I have shared GEB with many friends and there are two...  Onward, a filter pass if you please,...  Philip Greenspun: show me the money. Links several...  And meanwhile, Venture Capital is under attack. Not... 

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 09:43 PM (2) - Wednesday,  04/15/09  09:43 PM

I'm baaack! Tired, but back. Tired and happy and way...  Project Q: zero cycles all week. And a board meeting...  So today I had a flight booked back from Seattle at...  I've flown Alaska before and found them unremarkable. ...  Back to Project Q, well, sort of; the interestingly...  Microsoft courts startups to build the next big... 

Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:55 PM (1) - Sunday,  04/12/09  10:55 PM

Happy Easter to y'all! Hope you spent the day hanging...  Project Q: zero cycles this weekend. Really hard to...  Well you have to love this: a dress made entirely of...  ZDNet considers why Apple doesn't make a netbook. I...  So in the innermost echo chambers of the blogosphere...  I've been trying so hard to ignore the Pre tease...  ZooBorn of the weekend: a Sea Lion pup makes a splash.... 

Friday, April 10, 2009 07:21 AM (1) - Friday,  04/10/09  07:21 AM

Whew, a l o n g day yesterday, up early, drive to...  I have a riding breakthrough to report - you will...  Project Q: 0...  Today my daughter Alexis is getting her learner's...  Tomorrow I have an unusual riding program: I'm...  Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan,...  Wow, Facebook has 200M users. That's pretty... 

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 09:45 PM (1) - Wednesday,  04/08/09  09:45 PM

Had a travel day, woke up at oh-dark-hundred in...  Project Q report: 0 cycles. Boo. Well okay I thought...  Hungry for a new book? Try this one: In-n-out burger....  From the truth-is-stranger-than-Onion files:...  Another from truth-stranger-than-Onion: Congress needs...  ZooBorn of the day: four little Lion cubs. Baby...  My new motto: "you can post, but you cannot hide"... 

Monday, April 06, 2009 10:36 PM (1) - Monday,  04/06/09  10:36 PM

Blogging from Chicago... a little drunk and a lot...  Had a magnificent meal tonight at Blackbird. Highly...  Project Q report: 0 cycles invested. ...  The Dodgers began their 2009 stretch run today,...  From the HIMSS conference, which I attended, HIMSS...  Related: Tech firms eager to gobble stimulus funds. ...  Here's an interesting post on TechCrunch about... 

Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:29 AM (1) - Sunday,  04/05/09  10:29 AM

Greetings - blogging from Salt Lake City, en route to...  Unbelievable that it was only last Sunday I was...  If you have to ask... Is YouTube a big money loser? ...  Related: Can Yahoo out-Google Google in image search? ...  You have to love this: Rutgers breaks world Waldo...  LGF links a great video on The Basics of Evolution. ...  Last weekend I noted Microsoft's now-infamous 'Lauren'... 

Saturday, April 04, 2009 09:14 AM (2) - Saturday,  04/04/09  09:14 AM

My yesterday was good... how was yours? Worked...  Project Q. That's what I'm calling it - for now...  So we have a house full of girls - all of our kids...  It isn't our biggest problem - at all, compared to say...  I'm going to Chicago tomorrow, on Delta, and I check...  Note to airlines: charge me $15 for a sandwich, like...  ...