As I was walking out my door this morning I tripped over a copy of Race for the Galaxy: The Brink of War. It lunged at my leg and clawed its way up my body; it's currently sitting on my shoulder whispering "play me! play me!" in my ear.

Can anyone recommend a dentist in Sunnyvale or surrounding areas (Mountain View, Santa Clara, Cupertino) who takes Delta Dental insurance?

I was talking to a friend about avoiding added sugars in foods, and commented that he should just avoid any ingredient that ended in "-ose", except perhaps for cellulose... or Bose speakers.  Our subsequent conversation used the words rose, chose, hose, lachrymose, grandiose, suppose, lose, loose, goose, and verbose.  We missed working in nose, ( Read more... )

To the curly-haired woman driving the silver Accord, California license plate 5TVA439 eastbound on Mathilda in Sunnyvale this morning ( Read more... )

A golden iPhone marked "for the coolest one".

(And yes, I already shared it with a few people on IM and posted it to Facebook. Gotta love social fragmentation.)

"[...] armed with a chainsaw and sword"
-- from a crime report in the SF Chronicle, 2009-08-26

I'm glad Cash for Clunkers is dying -- if you want to give a boost to the car industry, there's got to be a fairer way to do it than by handing $4500 to a semi-random group of people to buy new cars. Why not hand out transferrable vouchers by lottery? That would be fairer ( Read more... )

THIS FRIEND IS A SERVER APPLIANCE PRODUCT. ACCESS IS AUTHORIZED ONLY THROUGH PUBLISHED INTERFACES. UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATION OR REVERSE ENGINEERING OF THIS PRODUCT IS PROHIBITED AND WILL RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OF YOUR WARRANTY AND SUPPORT CONTRACT.

[...] Computer scientists talk about the difference between exploring and exploiting - a system will learn more if it explores many possibilities, but it will be more effective if it simply acts on the most likely one. Babies explore; adults exploit.

Each kind of intelligence has benefits and drawbacks. Focus and planning get you to your goal more ( Read more... )

Many many years ago, at Pennsic...

Yes, I know, a lot of stories start this way. No shit, there I was... but this isn't one of those stories ( Read more... )