Coming once more to a supercontinent near YOU! All the excitement a balding 33 year-old engineering PhD candidate and his sweet-and-sour Italian wife can PROVIDE! Check out one of THESE exciting appearance dates ( Read more... )

Reviewing an old post of mine:

It's almost the epitome of wonkish, nerdy, left-wing political geekitude to admit this, but I watched Barack Obama's Democratic convention speech on PBS tonight ( Read more... )

Interesting blog post from Marc Ambinder in The Atlantic about how Sarah Palin's the likely front runner in 2012I haven't posted too much about politics lately because I believe the issues are pretty obvious and clear cut - while there are a handful of serious libertarian types out there who really believe Obama or McCain is a choice between the ( Read more... )

Long story short: I took a full time position at Microsoft as a Program Manager, and we're moving up to Seattle, likely starting in May 2009 ( Read more... )

...how Sarah Palin can be, in Fred Thompson's words, "a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment," when she's being glowingly endorsed by the same guys who've been running the government for the past eight yearsI mean, how can you take on the establishment when the establishment publicly declares it loves you ( Read more... )

...that I'd leave Seattle the exact day PAX starts up ( Read more... )

I beat all 20 levels of Fantastic Contraption in ~36 hours, thereby reaffirming that I made the right career decision in becoming an engineer.

Except that maybe I should be working with mechanical stuff rather than software. Oh well.

The Dark Knight (2008) : Batman (1989) :: Batman (1989) : Batman (1966 ( Read more... )

Yes, WALL-E is as good as everyone says it is. The real question in my mind, though, far more important than merely larding it down with superlatives, is how does it compare with Pixar's other works of genius ( Read more... )

I need to post on various big-picture things - Seattle, Portugal, etc., but for now I just want people's advice on one thing ( Read more... )