Larry Wall, creator of Perl, is giving two free-and-open-to-the-public talks in Cambridge next week ( Read more... )

I am having a good day.

In the wee hours this morning I played two games of Tic Tac Toe against a bot with the Volity web client. The application is not in a state where anyone other than me can use it, but we have nonetheless acheived target depth. It's all lateral digging from here. I IMed radiotelescope around 1a.m. to share the moment. He said "WTF, mid- ( Read more... )

doctor_atomic in town, so met for lunch today. We played Cribbage on the grass in Harvard Square (where I narrowly avoided getting skunked), and ate at Cafe Pamplona, in the sun. (My first time there. Yum yum.) The skin on my face interprets the unfamiliar presence of Vitamin D as a viral intruder and defends itself by turning red and peeling off ( Read more... )

Went to hear Richard Dawkins read from his new book The God Delusion at the, uh, church that Church Street (I assume) is named after at Harvard Square. With dougo and the dictator555Ha ha ha... I just now discovered that the introduction that the introducey person introduced him with was taken word-for-word from his Wikipedia page ( Read more... )

The Stah Mahket Shaw's at Porter is open 24 hours again, just like it was when I first moved here nearly six years ago. This is a good thing. I just visited and bought some phoney-baloney bagels, which is better than no bagels at all, esp. since I v. much wanted a hot buttered bagel and didn't want to go to Dunkies for it. (Also discovered that ( Read more... )