Yesterday rachelmanija and I drove down to San Diego to meet our agent at a lunch thrown by The Gotham Group. It was held in a restaurant two blocks from Comicon ( Read more... )

Okay, love is great, but how many of us would be the guy if it was us on this house tour?


The Coolest House in the Neighborhood (And Maybe the Galaxy) -- powered by Cracked.com

Last night I crossed town (that means a very considerable freeway drive in SoCal) for a nifty visit with old friends, during which I drank a lot of strong tea in order to stay alert for the return drive. The tea got me home just fine, but though I was physically pooped, my mind was ooo-eee, watch that hamster wheel whirl ( Read more... )

Within the past couple of days two folks have been talking about networking from the perspective of search engines and ranking (I still don't know what that means, and don't really care) --starshipcat shares a year of research here and david_de_beer talks about it here--causing a peculiar echo effect as he's referring back to an old post of mine, when I asked about ( Read more... )

"At this rate, I shall not pity the writers of history any longer. If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate."--Jane ( Read more... )

One of my favorite leaf-through books is a series of line drawings that somebody discovered in the margins of medieval manuscripts. In those days books were copied by hand, and most of them were churchly tomes. Sometimes, apparently, the monk sitting at his stool would rest his eyes by looking out the window, and would doodle what he saw. The ( Read more... )

Have you seen this? I laughed so hard I thought my ears would fall off.

Via voidmonster

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(By the way, this is the clearest explanation of the Higgs theory and the Hadron I've seen in a long time.)