A letter from Sam Yoon:

I hope you had the opportunity to read the cover story in the Boston Herald about security in Boston public housing developments. Click here to read the story. Click here to read the Boston Globe's editorial on the subject.

( I am contacting you today to ask for your help. )

Lynne just bought her book. I just lost a girlfriend. ;)

The costumes are awesome, the lines are crazy, and all of the theme music has been surprisingly good. This is the consensus of ursamajor and jennifer.

Meanwhile, we are all sitting in line next to curious George while someone plays "autumn leaves" on the accordion. How bizarre.

I'm going to semi-bring out my professsional geek hat, such as it is. In my day job, part of my work involves dealing with enterprise cell phone accounts and figuring out mobile device strategies that will add value. Sometimes this means adding things that are cool and sometimes it means advocating really boring and seemingly obsolete things. ( Read more... )

Thank you to everybody for the birthday wishes! I have to admit that, while I didn't make a big deal out of turning 30, that turning 31 is a little odd. I do feel older, like I'm actually entering my 30s. Somehow, I thought that I would actually feel older as a 31 year old when I was in high school or college, but I realize that I'm really not ( Read more... )

My 2 cents on the LJ kerfuffle about proactively banning livejournals and communities based on their interests: It's a completely moronic and un-Internet type of thing to do ( Read more... )

I've finished up for the semester and I HAVE to leave town this weekend. Where should lynne and I go? We were thinking Baltimore, but that's looking less likely due to lack of incentive. (no baseball game, people out of town). So, whee should I go? New jersey? New york? Philly? Maine? Six flags? Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Mstislav Rostropovich has passed away and I'm finding myself practically dumbstruck. Slava was a hell of a cellist and I remember seeing him in Boston just a few years ago and being awed that he could play with such energy and ferocity in his mid-70s. His Shostakovich and Dvorak concerto recordings are an absolute joy to listen to and I always ( Read more... )

Right now, i'm waiting in the intermission of ursamajor's chorus performance of St John's passion.

And there's a 9 string viol in the orchestra. So, of course, that reminds me of the best viol player in the world (or at least the world of Livejournal), rhiannon76. And there's some 13 pegged viola sized viol there, too. It makes me regret that I've forgotten ( Read more... )