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It’s weird being home on a Friday night. Weird because it doesn’t seem like that long ago that it would have been weird for me to be out on a Friday night. I’ve had two second dates recently. Not sure if there will be any third dates,

http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208113649/http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/] > I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush

I’m quickly becoming a Vernor Vinge fan. One author has singlehandedly brought me back to reading science fiction. This is great stuff. This collection of short stories is a mixed bag. Some of Vinge’s early work is a bit forced and awkward, but on the whole the stories

Joel Spolsky is the Joel of joelonsoftware.com, who writes that his company has a policy that any programmer working for him must be able to write English well. However, he notes that there are precious few good writers writing about software and a good many terrible ones. So he

One would think that the carful of injured riders who went to Big Sur with us would have served as a sober reminder to slow it down and take it easy. Our chase vehicle for the trip contained two broken ankles, one broken wrist, was driven by a rider whose

It was a great morning to take the detour off of 280 and take Skyline to Page Mill to work. Normally I hate stopping to take pictures, but I just felt the need to make everyone jealous, so here: [http://pics.livejournal.com/splicer/pic/0000f29h/g5]Bay from Page

The U.S. Half Marathon is coming up soon, and I’m registered for it even though I have not by any stretch of the imagination trained enough for it. I have spent a lot of this year letting my focus drift away from running, and to date I have