Winter on 125th

Winter on 125th
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I was about to declare a FAIL on winter in NYC, and then I looked out the window on what had started as a warmish sunny day, and found that it is Snowing! I dare say though, that the chances of getting to crack out my snow boots are still pretty close to nil this season.

Frag!

I suspect some sort of xss exploit caused that last post... deleted.

Birthday meal?

Yes, that IS a birthday meal.


And I'm putting you on Notice:

I'm jealous.

Echoes of Challenger & Columbia

In another finding, the panel reported that flight surgeons' medical opinions were not valued by higher-ups. Several senior flight surgeons told the panel that officials only wanted to hear that all medical systems ''were `go' for on-time mission completion.''

Network Neutrality starts in the...

I just got kicked out of an internet cafe called Cyber Cafe in Kolkata's Lake Town neighborhood for using the built in windows software Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect back to my computer in the states. This from a computer running XP with all updates turned off with only IE 6.

I was put on the phone with their "Engineer" who told me that if I was going to use his computers, I could only use programs on his computer.

Umm. Ok.

I decided not to argue network neutrality with him, or explain that his network was incredibly insecure, and just got my refund for Rs. 70 for the remaining 9 hours of my ten hour committment.

A pity too, as it was costing me $.20/hr to connect to the internet.

I'm going back to metered GPRS based internet access at $.0013/kb.

Good enough for email, anyways.

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overload

Watching Namesake on the plane's overhead TVs enroute to Kolkata while admiring the beauty of Afghanistan at dusk from 37000 ft on American Independence day.

Isaiah Washington out of Grey's Anatomy

So I read this while watching NETWORK, which was somewhat amusing.

But seriously, Isaiah thinks that he should get points for being shut down for bigotry?

Come on...

 

 

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Isaiah Washington out of Grey's Anatomy

via digg on Jun 09, 2007

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," Washington said in a statement released through his publicist, Howard Bragman, without elaboration.

 

 

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Robot lawnmower kills Danish man

This wouldn't be an issue if the lawnmower had been 3law compliant.

 

 

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Robot lawnmower kills Danish man

via Engadget by Nilay Patel on May 31, 2007

Filed under: Robots

In what we surely hope isn't the opening salvo of the robot insurrection, a 45-year old Danish municipal worker was tragically killed by an industrial robotic lawnmower this afternoon, after the unit tumbled off a slope and onto the poor fellow doing his job. Although we've seen quite a few robotic lawnmowers, we're not too familiar with the RC-controlled Dvorak Spider 01 unit the man was using; our only hope is that this is, of course, an isolated incident.

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Die Hard viral marketing/graffitti

Die Hard viral marketing/graffitti
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Outside my front door.

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Lloyd Alexander died

In case you missed it...

I really liked the Prydain Chronicles.

Zoe

Zoe
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Ephraim's dog Zoe sleeping on one of our sofas.

MobilecampNYC

MobilecampNYC
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Intros @ MobileCampNYC

MobileCampNYC

One of the Great things about living in NYC is the existence of interesting conferences you hear about the week of.

With OS X & Linux set to invade the phone space this year, people twittering and facebooking from their phones, this feels like a good time to talk mobile.

cat and turtle

CuteOverload had this today...

Today's random number is

I've been trying to seed a new random number generator with the text of posts from digg.com.

Over the last day or so, the function keeps coming up with this:

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Weird that...

Die Hard - Music Video

In Soviet Russia...

I keep reading about the Rove Administration putting Political Minders in every department, to ensure compliance with "The Message" - to the tune of the CDC not having postings filled abroad because they haven't had people approved by the powers.

Does this not sound a little bit Soviet? Didn't some of us grow up hearing about "political officers" in every Soviet Institution?

Perturbing, no?

Your Forces Have No Power Over Me Here

Stephen Hawking weightless.

How Burritos get to NY from SF.

The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

Idlewords is usually brilliant, but this bit is better than most.

His tagline is good too: "Brevity is for the weak."

Posner on Cooperatives

I found this interesting.

As Becker points out, abolishing the favorable tax treatment of ESOPs would permit a market test of this form of corporate governance. (In confining my discussion to cases of governance, I focus on situations in which, as in United Air Lines before its bankruptcy, or the proposed reorganization of the Tribune Company, the ESOP owns all or a controlling amount of the common stock of the corporation.) I believe that it would usually flunk the market test. Granted, the ESOP has an advantage over the conventional worker-owned firm: the value of a firm's capital stock is the discounted present value of its expected future earnings, so that a worker who owns ESOP shares has, at least in his role as part owner, the same horizon as the corporation itself, rather than the truncated horizon of the worker in a conventional worker-controlled firm (a cooperative), who cannot benefit from anything the corporation does after he retires and who consequently has no financial stake in maximizing the corporation's present value.