content top
recent posts

Postal

Posted on 2012-05-15
To come out with it up-front: I’m a fan of the postal service. It has great infrastructure, is reasonably priced, and mail you drop off in a mail box is delivered, by hand, to pretty much any address in the world. I cannot even get worked up...

Apropos

Posted on 2012-03-30
It is a universal law that when you buy a red (or white, or black, or any color) car, for example, all of sudden the streets seem to teem with red (or white, or black, or any color) cars of the same make and model as yours. So once I published...

©opyright Math

Posted on 2012-03-28
Welcome to the era of copyright overreach. I am sure you remember such milestones as the DMCA, ACTA, SOPA, and the PROTECT IP act? Related are the outlandish monetary claims in RIAA lawsuits over illegal music downloads, such as the $150,000...

Sweet Potato Recipe

Posted on 2012-03-27
They are, of course, delicious just by themselves, or with sour cream and chopped chives, but if you would like something a bit more elaborate, here my favorite sweet potato recipe: You need: 4 medium sweet potatoes 28-oz can country-style...

The Sound Of 焼き芋

Posted on 2012-03-23
It is interesting that posts about roasted sweet potatoes, traditionally a cold-season food, should be popping up everywhere now that winter is officially over. I’m a great fan of sweet potatoes, and not just because of their high fiber...

The O In The Hollywood Sign

Posted on 2012-02-17
Of the Hollywood sign she sang in one of her better known songs: Sometimes I have this dream, when the time comes for me to go, I will climb that hill and I’ll hang myself from the second or third letter O. Dory Previn died a couple of days...

Filter Bubble

Posted on 2012-01-30
Ever had the feeling the Internet is showing you what it thinks you want to see, but not necessarily what you need to see? The algorithmic editing of the web, as practiced by Google and many other feedback-centered services, tends to serve up...
recent from Funny ©opyright Math
Welcome to the era of copyright overreach. I am sure you remember such milestones as the DMCA, ACTA, SOPA, and the PROTECT IP act? Related are the outlandish monetary claims in RIAA lawsuits over illegal music downloads, such as the $150,000 per download per song in the now infamous LimeWire suit. For a long...
recent from 懐かし The Sound Of 焼き芋
It is interesting that posts about roasted sweet potatoes, traditionally a cold-season food, should be popping up everywhere now that winter is officially over. I’m a great fan of sweet potatoes, and not just because of their high fiber content. I like their taste and texture. Too bad I don’t have hot...
recent from Watercooler The Inner Child
Click on image In the early 70s, I was working for Collins Publishers in an old and very cold building in Glasgow’s Cathedral Street. Whenever we sat shivering over our documents, we would talk about how much nicer work could be if only management would let us do it in Suva on Viti Levu, where Collins had...
recent from Miscellaneous Sweet Potato Recipe
They are, of course, delicious just by themselves, or with sour cream and chopped chives, but if you would like something a bit more elaborate, here my favorite sweet potato recipe: You need: 4 medium sweet potatoes 28-oz can country-style baked beans 2 peaches, sliced ½ cup diced onions 3 bacon strips,...

Switch to our mobile site