Month: November 2005

Since we both optionally commute through Davis Square, and I decided to meet for dinner this evening. I got there a bit early, having swapped Davis and Porter in my head and thinking that Davis was two stops from Alewife, so I wandered around a bit. I spotted the Irish pub The Burren, which looked…

So playing World of Warcraft on my new computer into the wee hours of the morning increased my monthly energy usage by 40 kWh. Maybe I should cut back… Still addicted to WoW.

I discovered over the last 24 hours that there are two products/services that I would like to buy or consider buying that don’t actually exist at the price points or feature levels I want. The first is a new cell phone plan. I don’t really need one, but my first 2-year contract is about to…

Bah. Lawrence Lessig insists on using “data” as a strict plural in Code, and it’s driving me crazy to see “data are” and so forth. It basically causes a misparse, which totally breaks my stream of reading and throws me off. It’s a collective noun now, no matter where it came from. Incidentally, I’m posting…

I got a phone call yesterday from none other than . Total digression from train of thought: I still pronounce his username as “oon-CLAY-ah-mos”, as in the first-person plural present tense of the Spanish verb “unclear” meaning “to make no sense”, as in “we are making no sense”. I’m not sure who the “we” is…

BBN Technologies’ Cambridge office is located in a little tech park between an MBTA commuter rail line and Fresh Pond. There are several other companies in the same area. Across Moulton St., there are three with what I consider to be particularly awesome names: Acentech – A BBN spin-off of the original acoustic design work…

This list of my current World of Warcraft characters was prompted by a question asked by as a comment to one of my previous posts. This just has a lot more detail than anyone could possibly want or need. I’m strongly considering updating this every once and a while… but how many of you would…

The official Excel spreadsheet tabulating the Watertown election is available on the town website. The number of votes received in District A-1 (mine) for city council president was 352… which is the number displayed on the voting machine when I inserted my ballot. Since I voted about 5 minutes before the polls closed, and no…

I voted for assorted city council, school board, and library board positions. Since there was no information that I could find online, other than a list of candidate names, I spent about 30 minutes interviewing the people standing next to various signs. In particular, I talked to the “Yes” and “No” sides of the Community…

So I started to switch from free open source GnuCash, which sorta worked but didn’t have any of the budgeting features I wanted to Quicken 2006, which was included with my new iMac. It has come to my attention that Quicken uses completely custom GUI widgets, although they are designed to mimic the Aqua look-and-feel.…