Got the proper keys, did some painting, had a maid service do a thorough cleaning of the kitchen, bathroom & living room (that was J’s V-day present), and took a few pictures of the place: The Bedroom: The 1/2 room: my “office:” The Living Room: The Kitchen: The cool looking building that is behind ours …
It’s a data entry day for LtL, and I just came across a great road name: Gore Orphanage Road. There’s a story in that I’m sure.
If you know of any interesting road (street, avenue, etc.) names, drop a comment. I think sometime I will write a story populated by people with names I’ve gathered from spam messages and but all living in places that are real but seem fictional.
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Due to a series of unfortunate occurrences, the LtL blog has been struggling to get back to a fully functional state. This should be complete by the end of the week. Thanks for your patience.
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If you are an inveterate tweaker of computers, always trying to find a new cool program that will do things better or just differently, if you are not afraid of installing programs that haven’t even reached version 1.0, if you are not totally enamored with iTunes, or if you really love finding new music and …
Lobbyists Find New Congress is Open for Business Lobbyists who dreaded Democratic control find they’re being heard. by Tom Hamburger and Janet Hook Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi terrified the oil industry late last year when she outlined her priorities for the new Democratic majorities in Congress. Within the first 100 hours, she promised, they …
This doesn’t seem right . . . I’m not really hot-headed and certainly don’t have strong will power. But I guess if the computer says I am Green Lantern than who am I to argue? Now if I could just remember where I left that ring . . . Your results: You are Green Lantern …
Ultra-Dense Optical Storage — on One Photon from PhysOrg.com
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image’s worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.
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WIND SHEAR, a sudden, drastic change in wind direction or speed over a comparatively short distance. Most winds travel horizontally, as does most wind shear, but under certain conditions, including thunderstorms and strong frontal systems, wind shear will travel in a vertical direction. Microburst wind shear is an extremely violent downward blast of air that …
For too long now I have been grasping for at straws rather than making my own chocolate milkshake.
Tony Long writes a column for Wired called “The Luddite.” I recommend you read his November 9th column, “Oh, the (Lack of) Humanity.”
I know that living in NYC I have become inured to homelessness and need and quite often simply ignore those people who have nothing, who are dirty, who smell, who scare me with their need and their misery. So I ignore them, pretend they don’t exist and all the while, there is a yawning, gulping feeling in my stomach that tells me I am doing the wrong thing, making the wrong choice. It’s not about giving them money per se, but acknowledging them as human beings.
Anyway, it’s a good article.