I've got pictures from Toronto, some of which are actually decent shots. Where do folks upload their images for linking these days?

Most of what needs saying about that trip can wait for the pictures. Meanwhile, four days of air travel in the past three weeks have me falling further behind on books again:
14: The World is Flat, by Thomas ( Read more... )

Bought: 24 August, 1999. 11 (maybe 14) miles ( Read more... )

Falling way behind on the book posts. Fortunately, the next three are best reviewed together. Books 11-13 are His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman. Short version: The Golden Compass was interesting, if slow; the first third of The Subtle Knife was more interesting, and then in the space of five pages I switched from reading because I was ( Read more... )

Made another trip to car dealerships yesterday, to finish looking at Hondas and get more details about the Jetta (necessary because the Diesel version doesn't appear on Volkswagen's websites at all, and the brochures are all Wacky Volkswagen Marketing Fun™ with no specs whatsoever). With Honda, I was expecting to confirm that the hybrid Accord and ( Read more... )

I've been talking about getting a new car for a while, both of my longevity goals for Bucephalus (100,000 miles travelled or availability of hybrid sedans). That he failed inspection on Saturday (because his windshield crack, though stable since September, is longer than Memphis allows) has finally spurred me to action.

( In which many car dealerships are visited )

I thought this was an interesting experiment: how will people react to what appears to be a random street musician, but is actually one of the world's top violinists, playing one of the world's top violins?

It would be more interesting if they'd included a comparison with the experience of an actual street musician, of course, but we can't really ( Read more... )

New community: whittled_writ. Blame go_dorito.

I've finally made myself sit down to read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 23-page Summary For Policymakers of their Fourth Assessment Report( and I'm going to spend almost as many words blathering about it as IPCC did writing it )

(I'm assuming here that "NBA ordered to buy FedEx Forum outright for the full cost of construction and operations to date, and told in graphic detail where they can stick their non-compete; Heisley and all members of the Memphis Sports Commission sentenced to PMITA prison for defrauding the public" is not a possible story ( Read more... )

1 question, 5 minutes 20 seconds:

Is this funny to you?

(The audience are clearly huge nerds)