Hey there fabulous people,

As regular readers know, I will be helping out and possibly sailing in the North American International 14 championships, which will be held at Shilshole Bay on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The race committee is looking for one to three volunteers on Friday who can hang out on the committee boat and assist with scoring, ( Read more... )

Well that was quite the day.

Got up early. Went to Ballard. Tore up rotten boards off of the 14 fleet dock, sawed them into small pieces, filled four or five dumpsters, cut and screwed down about 50 new boards. Fortunately the rest of the fleet showed up to help so it went fast. But still, many hours of labour.

Then we had a fleet meeting, which went ( Read more... )

... will not be me. But Seattle is hosting the 2007 North American Championships for International 14 sailboat racing the first weekend of October, and there's an out-of-towner who will be borrowing a local boat from a local retired sailor, he needs crew, and I am free that weekend. So it just might be the case that my first ever i-14 race will be  ( Read more... )

After watching Superbad the other day I was thinking about Seth's obsession with Evan's mother's breasts when it struck me like a baseball bat from behind how it was that the writers structured the interactions of the three heroes. They used Freud's structural theory of psychodynamics.

Seth represents the id. He is immature, childish, short-sighted ( Read more... )

A reminder for west coast readers: there's a total eclipse of the moon, Tuesday 2 AM PDT until 5 AM.  Should be spectacular if it is not cloudy. If you miss this one, the next one visible in the Americas will be in February.

Leah and I and a few other friends will be attending the outdoor production of Richard III on Thursday August 16th in Seward Park. It's free, it's outdoors, there's only a 20% POP tomorrow. The more, the merrier.

Details here: http://www.greenstage.org/

A big thank-you to everyone who made our annual summer barbecue such a success. It was a lovely day and a great way to celebrate our anniversary.

I am particularly thrilled that I got almost all the Wayward Girls (and Mike) in one place. Heather, unfortunately, was out of town, David arrived later, I'm not sure why Karynne wasn't in this shot.


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Woo hoo! I just got my third patent!

I can now add "Type Inference for Object-Oriented Languages" to "Schema-Based Machine Generated Programming Models" and "Document Customization For Transparent Execution On A Client And A  Server", my patents from 2004.

So that means that if you want to infer types, translate XML into classes, or run the same code ( Read more... )

Even a day of modern air travel -- delayed flights, oversold flights, and the luggage guy not being able to tell us whether our luggage was in Toronto or Chicago -- could not completely undo the relaxation of two weeks at the beach.

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Last time I played Scrabble against C she kicked my ass something like 270-360. I decided to wait until she was under the weather with a terrible case of tonsilitis to try for a rematch. I drew the blank on my opening rack and two turns later managed to turn EILLRR? into GRILLERS. C followed up with JOGS on the triple and then bingoed with PRINCES ( Read more... )