They're all the same thing -- from the Wikipedia featured article on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone">Tropical cyclones "[Cyclones] are classified into three main groups, based on intensity: tropical depressions, tropical storms, and a third group of more intense storms, whose name depends on the region [emph. added]. For example, if a ( Read more... )

Yesterday I solved the Commute Challenge quite simply: I took a cab. At about USD4, a cab seemed ridiculously cheap compared to NY, where I lived about the same distance from the office and would've paid closer to USD12 ( Read more... )

When is someone going to remind Steve Ballmer that two wrongs don't make a right?

The Tampa airport keeps paging "Linda Blair, please go to the nearest beige phone. Linda Blair to the beige phone ( Read more... )

Warning: It's foul. But so, so, so funny.

That is when my life will start (start) to untangle ( Read more... )

I haven't been around in forever, this is turning into a very bad habit. But I do want to acknowledge that yesterday was Marry Your Baby Daddy Day .

I am frightened.

Also, Eve wrote me a lovely set of lyrics in honor of the Iranian president:
(to I Get a Kick Out of YouMy story is much too sad to be told ( Read more... )

Received an e-mail from my alma mater with a link to a Q&A on the latest building project: converting a former middle school into an arts center.

"[I]t is certainly our intent to retain the exterior of the 1910 building. There is also good reason to try and retain the art deco façade of the 1934 auditorium. The aesthetic merit of the 1954 exterior ( Read more... )

One of the small joys of riding the New York subway is the little ads, often business-card size, that people slip in under the plexiglas covering the regular ads. Most offer either work-at-home jobs ($500 a week!) or diets (30lbs in 30 days!) - with a new variant I saw just yesterday:

Free Diet Samples!

But the point of a diet is....not eating, ( Read more... )

It's only taken a week or so for me to catch up on everything. We had an amazing, stunning, fantastic trip, even through not-great weather and truly horrendous exchange rates. (Worst experience: discovering that the London Underground now costs £4 for a single-fare ticket. That's $8. We discovered this after we'd taken our luggage down a very long ( Read more... )