I used to watch Buffy, when it was on the air, but I stopped at the end of Season 3, when we decided G was paying too much attention to the screen (ie any). Over the years, people have urged me to watch the rest of it, and I resisted, mostly feeling like it wasn't a good use of my time ( Read more... )

15 years ago, last week, I met a young woman who would become the mother of my four (awesome) children ( Read more... )

Folks I work with at MIT are looking for a contract programmer.

the posting

I can talk to you about it, but I don't really know the details.

I believe the project is funded by a US Gov't grant and relates to information privacy and transparency.

I haven't quite figured out what to make of this process, but if you happen to see a balloon like this today...


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I think this is just about the best piece of music ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcVqJh0qEMc

Click to view

(Well, at least this week I'm hopelessly in love with it. Next week it'll probably be something else.)

I'm looking for a video clip to punctuate a talk, emphasizing that just because you implied something doesn't mean I inferred it, and if I infer it when you didn't imply it, that's my fault.

Any ideas?

(Neither Weird Al's "Close But No Cigar" nor "Paris When It Sizzles" quite fit the bill.)

After five days of somewhat odd cold/flu symptoms, I finally saw my doctor. I'm usually a fan of "it'll go away on its own", but my annual physical was scheduled, and I wasn't quite foolish enough to cancel it because I was sick ( Read more... )

This is a scam artist, right? You can tell by his English and typing, and then wanting to pay like that at the end confirms it.

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There's been a little staffing change at work, and I'm supposed to start spending 20% of my time on eGov stuff. This will including attending meetings like the gov2.0summit, where everyone will dress in business formal. No one is saying I have to wear a suit and tie, but people are suggesting that if I do, I'll end up being a lot more ( Read more... )

In an article in in the Aug 2009 issue of Psychology Today, I read this paragraph about [White House chief of staff] Rahm Emanuel's family:

The center of the Emanuel universe was the family dinner table, a boisterous place where all the meaningful issue of the day were hotly debated. While Rahm has called the verbal combat that took place there ( Read more... )