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 2nd, 2008 by alephnaught
By The Book (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Title: By The Book (Star Trek: Enterprise) Mass Market Paperback: 252 pages Publisher: Star Trek (January 1, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743448715 ISBN-13: 978-0743448710 I liked this book a lot – I read about 2/3 of it on a 2 1/2 hour flight from Burbank to Seattle. There are two stories going on – one […]
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 31st, 2008 by electricbob
Theme changes
I’ve just spent a fair part of the morning modifying images and changing CSS styles (and one php change to do the del,icio.us bookmarking thing) to try to make the theme look the way I like (and color it similarly to my main web site). I’d love comments back on your opinions of the changes […]
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 26th, 2008 by alephnaught
Travel Writing for Profit and Pleasure
Title: Travel Writing for Profit and Pleasure Author: Perry Garfinkel Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Plume (January 24, 1989) Language: English ISBN-10: 0452261597 ISBN-13: 978-0452261594 I liked this book; the first three quarters were all about how to get started writing travel articles for profit. The last part talked directly about the business itself – that […]
May 26th, 2008 by electricbob
Web site updates – added MediaWiki
In addition to hosting my blog directly, I’ve installed MediaWiki’s wiki tool. I’ve become co-manager of the MediaWiki implementation at work, so I figured I should install it here. It was fast and easy to get the wiki set up; the longest parts were FTPing the files to my web site and getting the MySQL […]
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June 5th, 2008 by alephnaught
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