Last weekend, I went to visit Julie's family, and it was a rare white Christmas in Lubbock, Texas (enough to give the yards and rooftops a uniform coat of white, little enough to vanish without a trace the moment the sun came out on the 26th). It was good to see her folks under less-hectic circumstances, and it was a very pleasant and relaxing ( Read more... )

ITA's company dinner cruise was nice and relaxing.

The vegetarian tasting menu at Oleana is amazing.

The movie Primer is amazing if you love time travel stories and being confused. Which I do, apparently ( Read more... )

Via The Consumerist:

After it broke last week that Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa was claiming it was the fault of the victim and her two toddlers that she was raped in their parking garage, the hotel has decided to withdraw the claim. They also apologized for the rape in a general sort of way-but not for subpoenaing her friends and professional ( Read more... )

A woman raped and robbed at gunpoint in a paid parking garage at the Stamford, CT Marriott Hotel & Spa filed an anonymous lawsuit against the hotel, alleging negligence. The hotel's response1. Alleges that the woman herself was responsible. Evidently, the paid parking garage of a Marriott hotel is the sort of place where one should be taking ( Read more... )

I have a new bank card, all of a sudden, with a different number and expiration date. Evidently, a bunch of credit card data was compromised, Bank of America blames some unnamed third party but doesn't say who. Blah.

On an unrelated note, tonight is evidently the night for sending bunches of email.

Olin College, by consent of the remaining former directors of the Franklin W. Olin Foundation and a majority vote of the College Trustees, has amended the Founding Precepts of Olin College, item six, to reduce the Olin Scholarship by 50% starting for the class of 2014 (entering in Fall 2010 ( Read more... )

The current shareholder meeting for Fidelity includes a proposal for the board to implement procedures to avoid investing in companies complicit in genocide. The proposal is pretty straightforward and very minimal:

RESOLVED ( Read more... )

Quoted verbatim from an email to their customer service:

Since you were unable to reach an advisor earlier, to help you with this I have included the instruction as to how to reach an advisor through Alex [the bot]. Once you call us at 1-888-322-1122 (or *vm on your virgin mobile phone ( Read more... )