John Gruber, who is the person to read for informed, incisive Mac advocacy, takes a piece by Paul Graham and spins from it a discussion of the appeal of Macs to either end of the techie spectrum, but not the middle. Here’s the money quote from Graham: And open and good is what Macs are ...
Via Daily Kos, Digby refers, in passing, to the ‘Constitution Restoration Act of 2005‘, currently supported by a nut-cluster of the right. Here’s Digby’s quotation of the first clause, with her emphasis intact: The Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 – Amends the Federal judicial code to ...
We’ve been listening to some BBC Radio 4 before bed lately: The News Quiz, the fantastic Mitchell & Webb, some odd bits of older archived comedy. It’s wonderful to get a bite of the concentrated Englishness of Radio 4 from so far away. I get a tiny bit cranky when the archived copies of recent ...
The whole meat-in-pastry thing continues to baffle and bemuse the New World. My eye having been caught by reference to ‘The Pasty Shack’, a modest emporium of said comestible in Sacramento, in this month’s Sunset magazine, I went a-Googling for a website. I found it, only to be somewhat disappointed by its ...
This hellishly PowerPoint-ish and (I’d say) woefully committee-driven manifesto for social work as part of the medical process was sitting by the elevators on the seventh floor of USC University Hospital this week. It’s wonderfully syntax-strangling, but I was particularly taken by the list halfway down the ...
To the Getty Center on Thursday for a calming afternoon away from it all. The gentle funicular that runs from the car park up the hill, alongside the serpentine 405, always reminds me of the trip across the lake at Disney World. The places couldn’t be very much more different, but in each case the ...
Tom Burka steps in to take on the, frankly, far-too-easy task of finding the ridiculous in Scalia’s ramblings on the Ten Commandments issue. Says the NYT report: He called the Ten Commandments “a symbol of the fact that government* derives its authority from God,” adding, “That seems to me an ...
As a present for my birthday, my mother very sweetly sent me an old friend in a squishy padded envelope: Carrots, the quite adorable small white rabbit that you can see in the picture. Perhaps as a result of the rigours of the transatlantic journey, Carrots now has a rakish look: one ear back, the ...
This afternoon, on the side of a church minivan in Koreatown: Please don’t go to hell. Believe in Jesus Christ. No idea why, but it tickled me to see going to hell portrayed as some sort of dreadful faux pas, from which one’s social standing might never recover. Or maybe it should be interpreted as: ...
I was taking A. to an important appointment yesterday morning, so of course when we headed out to the car we discovered that a tyre was flat. A call to AAA got the wee narrow spare put on (this is the point at which I swear I’d have done it myself but for the fact ...