I live in Seattle now. I have a cool new job. I took a camera to work today and took a picture from my desk. Here is what the view out my window looks like.


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This year's winner for worst possible opening of a book ( Read more... )

I visited the Granary Burial Ground yesterday. There are a lot of famous dead folks there, including Sam Adams, Crispus Attucks, and Ben Franklin's parents ( Read more... )

Paraphrased Question from Reporter: "Mr. President, did you order Gonzales to go into Ashcroft's hospital room while he was groggy and nearly unconscious to try to get him to sign off on an illegal wiretapping program he didn't believe in ( Read more... )

So, you're a fishmonger in a small African country. You want to move up in the world by maybe getting a little store instead of selling fish on the street, but stores cost like $500 for a few months' rent, and where the heck are you going to get that kind of money without a store? It's a catch-22. Takes money to make money and all that ( Read more... )

I can't believe I forgot about this!  Today is free cone day at Ben & Jerry's!  Go!  Go, my children!  Stand in line for an hour for a small cup of FREE ICE CREAM!!

    In 2005, Nintendo spent ovre $180 million on research and development.  The Federal government spent less than half that much on research in education.

One of the last living great American writers died today. Arthur Miller's still kicking, but I can't think of anybody else who's really up there. He was truly a great man. He wrote some of the best books ever written, and they weren't great because they were perfectly set up socratic tragedies or great because they used particularly elegant ( Read more... )

I wasn't feeling that I was properly celebrating Easter and everything it means to me, so I made Ollie help me make some Easter eggs, so we could celebrate Eostre's birthday in style!

Here're the eggs we made:


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Me: "Hey, that's Stevie Wonder ( Read more... )