Lost Conversations is the title of a series of blog entries that have
been sitting in draft form for too long; it’s my attempt to do some
“spring cleaning”. This is the third in a series — the other two are:
Lost Conversations #1: Matchmaker
Lost Conversations #2: Two Fandoms, One Approach
Russ “Burkean [...]
It’s a gorgeous and sunny-but-cool day here in Accordion City, and although there’s lots to do at work, things are going nicely both in terms of my own productivity and today’s trading…
Construction of my new IKEA “Expedit” bookshelf is not going as
planned. Wendy and I were doing just fine until step 11, not far from
the end: attaching the right side. Getting the pegs to line up is a
chore, and I suspect a third set of hands might come [...]
I discovered this in a post in the blog This is Hi-Fi via a recent trackback:
…Accordion Guy used to have a relatively cool blog with topics such as the multi-part “Worst Date Ever“.
Dude, I wasn’t going to stay a single guy forever, and I certainly wouldn’t do so for the story value!
Back
in 2002, I was invited as one of the special guests for the
100th episode of MuchMusic’s show MuchOnDemand, a live show tailored
to the after-school crowd. The show, which was hosted by VJs Rick
Campanelli and Jennifer
Hollett
at the time, is an hour long and features [...]
I laughed all through the movie. Steve Carell’s bang-on portrayal of a
nerdy man-child, the strong supporting cast (especially Seth Rogen and
his often-ad-libbed performance as a grown-up version of his Freaks and Geeks
character), the endless tream of good jokes (even the ethnic humor got
done just right) [...]
Today is Wendy’s last day at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School,
a job she’s held for the past three years. In the terms of the working
world from which our parents came, that’s like being reincarnated with
your boss twice.
This is one of a [...]
…a lot. Here are just two of the many things going on:
New entries in The
Farm: An intro to subversion from Red Hat Magazine, moving
from ADO to ADO.NET and wondering if Joel Spolsky was actually being
“agile” with the spec for his new product, Copilot.
Now it can
be told: Tucows [...]
[I also posted this question on Ask Metafilter.]
Here’s one for the security buffs!
I often get called to appear on the nightly news whenever they need a
guy to talk about computers, the internet or blogging. This time, it’s
a piece about “how terrorists use the net to organize and [...]
Here’s a graphic I stumbled across yesterday. It’s for a book in
French, which I’ve shown below. The title translates directly as “The
Virtual Samurai,” and as you can see, its author is Neal Stephenson,
“The Dark Prince of Hacker Fiction”:
“Virtual Samurai?” you might be asking yourself. “He [...]
Here’s a bang-on bit of satire from this week’s edition of The Onion:
An excerpt from the article:
Critics of Intelligent Falling point out that gravity is a provable
law based on empirical observations of natural phenomena. Evangelical
physicists, however, insist that there is no conflict between Newton’s
mathematics and [...]
The original album cover.
Last year, I posted three tracks from Eric Weber’s unintentionally
hilarious 1970’s self-help album, Picking Up Girls Made Easy. I
recently stumbled across a single MP3 file of the entire album!
From the back cover of the original album.
Here it is, [...]
Over
at the wedding blog, I offer a song to Wendy in the “East
meets West” spirit of our upcoming wedding: dekha ab
to [4.9MB MP3], a Bollywood
treatment of the Beatles’ tune I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
dekha ab to is performed by Mohamed Rafi and Asha Bhosle, names [...]
Blogware, the tool created by Tucows and used in the creation of this and several other fine blogs for which I am a contributing editor, has its own blog at blog.blogware.com.
In addition to the usual Blogware hints and tips, the Blogware blog
also has entries about blogging in general and pointers to [...]
As I write this, we’re at 39 days and just under 21 hours to the Big
Event: September 24, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.. Expect heavier posting on the Wedding Blog.
I noticed that I have a number of mostly-finished entries, some of
which are very old, sitting in a directory on my computer called “Blog
Drafts”. I thought I’d do a little “cleaning house” by polishing off
those entries and posting them under the title “Lost Conversations”.
The first one took [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
