Mona Patricia Tilden Davies, 1928-2012. R.I.P.

Goodbye, Grammy.


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Hey everybody, I’m hosting a housefilk at my apartment the evening of Sunday, November 18th, from noon to 5:00pm.

The location is 100 Christopher Columbus Dr., Jersey City, NJ, just outside the Grove St. stop on the PATH train.

If you’re interested, RSVP to me by LJ message or at agd12@columbia.edu to get the apartment number and my contact info.

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I'm headed off to Ireland this evening for a three-day conference outside Dublin, then a weekend hanging around downtown on my own. Look for pix on my flickr when I get back!

Under a blanket of new-fallen snow!

Hey everybody, I'm hosting a house concert by Heather Dale, awesome Celtic and folk musician and winner of three Pegasus Awards, at my apartment the evening of November 15th. Doors open at 6:00; showtime is 7:00.

You can hear some of Heather's music at her website or on her YouTube channel.
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(Crossposted from my comment on facebookMy first computer was a Mac Plus, and I've been Mac-only ever since. While I was too new to the scene (I was in second grade when we got that Plus) to fully understand why so many people were so excited when Steve returned in ’96, I saw the impact almost immediately--by the time I was out of college, iMacs, ( Read more... )

At least one of these statements is false.

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My eclipse pics (dumped straight from the camera since I'm too lazy to pick out the good ones).

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Here's my candidate for the two things about programming (inspired by a ycombinator comment via apenwarr):

1. Like every other significant field of human endeavor, programming is fundamentally unlike anything that came before it.
2. It became the bottleneck in human progress much faster than any of the others.