Well boys and girls, tommorow I'll be sailing in the Around Long Island Regatta. I'll be aboard Diane (in Division 04 on the scratch sheet), the same boat I sailed with two years ago. That time we came in fourth in division, and this year we're hoping to do better.

See you all past the finish line.

Hey Gang, for your planning pleasure, I have started nymegadopefest, a community for planning the next NY MegaDopefest weekend, now scheduled for October 15-17, 2004. This is coming up on us pretty quick, and I plan to post a "save the date" thread in MPSIMS this week.

Please join the planning community and jump in with any ideas or thoughts you may have.

I suppose I should weigh in on the ChiDope flap (though I’m not really sure why, other than to hear my virtual jaws flap ( Read more... )

As I have had an overwhelming chorus of support for the concept of drinks this evening, I am sure many of you are waiting breathlessly to hear where we will be going.

We'll be meeting at No Idea, 30 East 20th Street at 6:30. If your name is Oscar, you drink for free. From there we'll probably eventually go someplace to eat.

Wow. I knew I haven't been posting much, but I didn't realize that it was more than a month. After catching up a bit on my reading list, I've fallen way behind.

12) From Windmills to the World Trade Center: A Walking Guide Through History (1995) and From Trout Stream to Bohemia: A Walking Guide Through History (1996) by Joyce Gold. This ( Read more... )

Friday after work, I'm planning to get together with oxymoronnyc, the OxyBF and whoever else wants to show up for drinks and probably dinner. Location to be named later (suggestions welcome).

Love to see you there.

vix1, allow me to express my felicitations upon your natal anniversary.

11) Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife (2000). I found this to be really two books in one, the first is about the difficult introduction of the concept of zero into western mathematics and the second is about how zero, and its alter ego, the infinite, were central to the development of advanced mathematical concepts from ( Read more... )

Well, I seem to be falling farther behind, but so it goes:

9) An Experiment in Treason, Bruce Alexander (2002). This is a historical mystery in Alexander's Sir John Fielding series, set in late eighteenth century London and featuring Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate of the Bow Street Court as detective. The story is told from the ( Read more... )

This week Cristi Lamb unexpectedly - shockingly - died. I still cannot comprehend how someone with such energy, enthusiasm and verve is not still among us ( Read more... )