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Rabbit in the Moon
So now that I live in a place with a real climate, I try to go out and get lunch and take a walk around. I often go to Fry‘s, a very cool discount electronics shop about two blocks from my office. So I typically walk over and check out different parts of the store […]
June 5th, 2008 by alephnaught
How do we choose?
At least this isn’t a political post…. I was reading another article today in the NY Times (“Myanmar Arrests Activist as U.S. Aid Ships Leave”), and it made me think. We either need to go in and remove the government (think Grenada) or let them die (think Rwanda). How do we choose?
June 5th, 2008 by alephnaught
I’m glad the NY Times is picking up on this stuff
First, I’ve seen some articles about the political issue I brought up a few days ago. And, I’m heartened to see the article in the NY Times today (“Many Blacks Find Joy In Unexpected Breakthrough”) that described how blacks in this country are feeling more optimistic than ever thanks in part to the expected nomination […]
June 4th, 2008 by alephnaught
Trip to Renton, WA
I made my first business trip to the home office of Classmates.com. Its located in Renton, WA, which is about 10 to 15 minutes outside Seattle. I enjoyed the trip. Alaska Air is a nice airline, the planes are pretty clean and reasonably new and the flight crews were pleasant (not quite Southwest-jovial but I […]
June 1st, 2008 by alephnaught
I can’t help it – one entry on politics
So the Democratic Party has decided, perhaps, what to do about the Florida and Michigan delegates. There’s one thing that’s being played down that bares repeating: Both candidates agreed not to campaign in both states and that both delegations would not be seated at the convention. That is, I guess, until one of them needed […]
May 31st, 2008 by alephnaught
Culver City Art Walk
Today was the West Hollywood and Culver City Art Walks – we decided to go the Culver City one. We stopped in at least 10 gallerys (Basil came along in tow and was a very good dog, he didn’t growl at a single painting, although I think some deserved it). Some of the realist work […]
May 26th, 2008 by alephnaught
Mulholland Drive
We decided to go on a drive and consider David Lynch as well…. Mulholland Drive is a famous road that runs north of Los Angeles through the mountains. It twists and turns, dives and climbs, surrounded by green trees and mansions. The Canyon Country Store on Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a fixture from the sixties […]
May 23rd, 2008 by alephnaught
Sawtelle and Govindas
Got to kick everyone out of work early today. So, Aviva and I took a trip into West Hollywood. First, we stopped on Sawtelle. This is yet another Japanese area, with a few really cool stores like Giant Robot, which is a cool store that sells Japanese toys, books, and just general stuff; I bought […]
May 20th, 2008 by alephnaught
Still getting moved over
I’ve still got to finish moving the images over to my blog, then I’ll start adding some new entries. Most will be in the past, for example some of things we’ve done in Los Angeles. I’ll probably add a page to my travelogue for our trip out here (we drove from Chicago, IL, to Westlake […]
May 19th, 2008 by alephnaught
Switching blog tools
I haven’t posted anything new, although so much has changed in my life lately. Why? Turns out the company (and author) of the blogging software I’d been using, iblog, has left it in a semi-finished state that won’t run on Leopard (MacOS X 10.5); I’ll never buy anything from them again and suggest you don’t […]
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June 7th, 2008 by alephnaught