Year: 2007

  • Philosophical Courage

    I’ve been getting an Aristotle Quote of the Day on my (Google) home page. Today it was, “Character is habitual action.” And–totally apart from the content–I am thinking, “What guts! To say something so flat out straightforward, so intellectually committed as those four words.” And there is nothing obviously true about these words. Where are…

  • Discovering Louise Nevelson

    So yesterday B and I went into SF in the afternoon to visit our friends D and P and get some cultcha. We went to the deYoung museum in Golden Gate Park and took in the Louise Nevelson exhibit. For some reason I did not know who Nevelson was. I read her bio on the…

  • Things to done

    Saturday * Get salad greens and heirloom tomatoes at the farmer’s market at Splash Pad park * Work out with B at the gym * Drop off shirts at the cleaner * Start laundry * Make pizza and salad * Fix problem with misdirected payments to writer client * See Michael Clayton * Have a…

  • My slides from Unbroken Chain

    Here are my slides from our panel at UMass (called “They Made a Fine Connection”): | View | Upload your own Without my comments, the slides are kind of telegraphic. If I get a sound recording of our panel, I’d link them together into a slidecast. I’ll also put my thoughts down about the symposium…

  • The limits of multitasking

    I was running a search on a labeled group of messages (from a mailing list) in my mailbox, looking for just the unread ones, but I was also doing something else at the same time (actually two or three other things, drinking coffee, firing up a YouTube video, looking for a file on my desktop)…

  • Unescaped entities on the loose

    So, I’m back from the Dead Symposium at UMass (I’ll post my slides soon), and Thanksgiving has come and gone, and I’m at the office now wrestling with my new MacBook Pro, trying to get everything possible onto it from my old G4 without breaking any of the new stuff. I think I’m almost there…