I was looking at a google map of my neighborhood and noticed "Waltham Airport", more or less on a neighbor's lawn. Several sources confirm this location for "WLM". Very very strange. I guess maybe there used to be an airstrip there, and when they built houses over it, it never got de-listed from various databases?

Does anyone know of a carrier that will let you use a smartphone without paying $30+/mo for data service?

(this is for my kids.... they don't need data service; I just want to pay the $9.99 per line, but I'd like them to be able to be android phones.)

Am I right in assuming that laser disks are entirely worthless now? I have about 40 movies. I suppose I could keep their 12" sleeves as art....

The last time I wired a house for ethernet, 100Base-T was state-of-the-art ( Read more... )

Should I hold a little bbq/party Monday afternoon, at my new house? It now has electricity, a working bathroom, and two chairs. And it's kinda nice.

(it does not however, have any sort of kitchen.)

How should I pick colors for my new house?

It's currently painted in a fancy Victorian 6-color style, which is mostly pleasing, but incomplete in some places and peeling in others.

High-res pictures for anyone who wants to suggest a color scheme [possibly via photoshop :-) ] are here.

My offer for 23 Lord Street, Waltham has been accepted. Assuming there are no great unpleasant surprises in the inspection or mortgage process, by June I should be a home owner again ( Read more... )

I seem to be the only person who has submitted an elevator pitch for the Semantic Web, yet, so they featured my video:

http://semanticweb.com/

(in a few days, it'll move off that page; here's the permalink.)

Is there an effective technique for finding out which of my friends, or even friends of friends, wants to chat about some particular topic I feel like talking about?

... without bothering everyone else.

I saw a facebook meme with all the usual rules, about coming up with 15 of your favorite albums in 15 minutes. In thinking about that, it seems to me there's a big gap between the albums I merely liked a lot and the albums I listened to a hundred bajillion times. And it seemed like there were about 20 of the latter, so I've listed 20.

Berkeley ( Read more... )