I finally got rid of my 1985 Nighthawk!  Woohoo, more garage space!  The DMV paperwork was threatening to become a nightmare.  A few years ago I started the process of transferring it to a friend, and we never finished, and the DMV does not like in between stuff.  At one point it looked like I would need to pay 7 years of back insurance + ( Read more... )

Girl-on-girl wrestling

Choclate-bacon-bark ice cream

Love San Francisco!

Remember this crash?  This one is apparently very close to where I went to college.

We're working on some new desktop software at work.  It will look at your email and analyze your relationship to people and topics, and try to tell you things you didn't realize about how world sees you.  What topics cause you the most stress?  Who are you getting more/less close to over time ( Read more... )

Good things going on:

--I have both my vehicles back and working
--I gave back that terrible rental car
--I have just begun a paid vacation of at least two weeks.  My boss's boss insisted on it after I made some noises about quitting.
--I'm looking at plane tickets to Cancun, and they're looking pretty good.

We're looking for a roommate again.  No drama--Tyler is moving in with his girlfriend, and we wish him the best.

So if you're interested in a room in a house in the Sunset, or you know somebody who is, let me know.

I recently finished "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford.  Overall, really good book, I highly recommend it.  But I had one of those moments where I was basically yelling at an inanimate lump of paper.

The Mongels have united most of Asia and finally turn on Europe.  They invade Russia, then Poland, then Hungary.   ( Read more... )

In this post I said that Whalen (the 911 caller) never spoke to Crowley (the cop) at the scene. I based that on on this statement by Whalen's lawyer:

"Let me be clear: She never had a conversation with Sgt. Crowley at the scene," Murphy told CNN by phone.
However, Whalen gave a press conference today. The NYT says:

Ms. Whalen said that the only ( Read more... )

At TAM I met the wonderful folks from the Skeptically Speaking radio show/podcast.  A couple quotes from me made it into the July 17 show, which I'm just listening to now.  If you want to hear, go to their list of shows and click "TAM Forever."  I'm in the bit that starts around 48:16.  Can't figure out which voice is mine?  Hint:  Krebs cycle.

I've been following somewhat the story about Prof. Gates of Harvard, who is black, being arrested in Cambridge by Sargent Crawley.  Many thing the arrest had racist overtones, since Gates was arrested for breaking into his own house after showing Crawley ID proving he lived there.   I think I first became aware of this story through the Daily Show ( Read more... )