I am reading Pride and Prejudice again. But this time, I'm doing so immediately after reading Tooth and Claw. And I must say, PaP makes a lot more sense than it did before. I mean, what exactly was so horrible about what Lydia and Wickham did? Obviously what happened is Lydia rubbed up against Wickham, thereby blushing, but without the intention ( Read more... )

So suppose that you could send a camera-equivalent or two back in time -- totally stealthed, so it wouldn't be noticed by anyone. Let's say that for hand-waving quantum reasons, it couldn't go back more than 400 years, and for hand-waving privacy reasons, the mad scientist who created the thing hard-coded a limitation that it wouldn't go back less ( Read more... )

So I was reading a poem, and my first reaction was "Actually, they threw milk", to the line "they threw stones at me ( Read more... )

Actually, they threw milk ( Read more... )

This coming Sunday will be the 6th consecutive Sunday that I have travelled this summer. For those keeping track at home, first it was travelling back from a weekend in Atlanta (Bar Mitzvah), then it was travelling to Seattle (vacation), then travelling home from Seattle, then it was travelling to MA (visiting family), then travelling home from MA ( Read more... )

Had a great time in Seattle; saw Jeff, did touristy stuff, went to Mt. Rainier... and now I've got to go.

So I've discovered that $FORMER_COMPANY, where I worked before I started at $CURRENT_COMPANY, is in bankrupcy proceedings. I feel bad for my former cow orkers who are still at $FORMER_COMPANY, but I don't think that many of them are actually still there. I'm sure that the owners of $FORMER_COMPANY are doing fine, so I'm not feeling bad about them ( Read more... )

Back at the end of March 2014, I started work at $COMPANY. There was the normal initial startup stuff, getting my development environment in place, downloading SQuirreL, JEdit, and Eclipse; getting a working version of Websphere and configuring it, etc. Also learning about what $COMPANY does; I'd never worked in the $INDUSTRY_CATEGORY sector ( Read more... )

In my home, Pluto is a planet. And I'm thrilled about New Horizons' mission there.

Closest approach in about 8 minutes, woo hoo!

Edited to add a link:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

Do I look like a tourist? Or an easy mark ( Read more... )