BurningbirdI did go see Serenity tonight. The movie theater is about 1/2 mile from us, and no one was out. We had the stadium seating theater; shared with approximately 20 other people. The seats were excellent and so was the sound, but the film developed a flaw in it for the last ten minutes. Didn’t […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. David Weinberger wrote about turning down attendance at an event because the guest list ended up being all men. When I told the organizers why I wasn’t coming, they replied that they had invited three women who turned out to be unavailable. After our conversation they have invited some more women. But, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Recently, irritated by what seems to be an endless round of pushback against RDF, I made a put up or shut up statement in a post. Well, whether my irritation is justified or not, telling people that they have to put code down in order to have an opinion was not only […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to a note from a friend, I found out that in the last week or so, I’ve lost several hundred links and several hundred points in the link race at Technorati. I guess I had my 15 minutes of, well, I couldn’t call it fame. What could we call […]
I wanted to thank Daniel Mosquin for his kind words about my photographs, and also take this opportunity to point to his Botany Photo of the Day site. It’s really a terrific site to explore. In fact, I was exploring it, via Tim Bray when I had a note from Daniel, asking if I minded if he linked my […]