Posted on 2013-06-09
Deep space meets Scandinavian crime. Tonight, I watched last week’s season 3 premiere of The Killing. Jewel Staite plays detective Holder’s girl friend. In one scene, she pulls down Holder’s undershirt to look at the tattoo...
Posted on 2013-05-20
I’m using Crashplan for my on-line backup. If you are not backing up your data regularly – you should. In more than one place, if possible, and not all in the cloud. So when I was sitting quietly in front of my computer the other day...
Posted on 2013-05-13
Thank heavens for the Internet. For translators, it has made researching subjects in their target language easier than ever. It was not so long ago that I had to buy countless dictionaries, reference books, and magazine subscriptions, just to...
Posted on 2013-03-28
Living in a city where, according to a quote whose source I cannot pinpoint right now, “smoking marijuana is legal, but watering the lawn before 5 pm can get you arrested,” I am pleased to see that someone is addressing the concerns...
Posted on 2013-03-22
This famous quote by Dorothy Parker reminded me that as a result of my recent move I keep hearing this question from friends and family: How big exactly is Los Angeles?
There’s no simple answer. In other countries, there seems to be an...
Posted on 2013-03-16
Despite claims such as “x times faster,” Internet service providers usually never quite say faster than what, and the actual speed of data transmission is subject to a whole bunch of factors out of the customer’s control....
Posted on 2013-03-09
You may not know this, but there is catholic boarding school in my past. It was a small school, and we gathered thrice daily in the refectorium, our dining hall. There, we were not allowed to talk. Instead, one student was delegated to read to...