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Working in Harvard Square makes it very easy to take a break in the afternoon and walk to Darwin’s. Most days I take a break around 3:30 with my friend Jill and we walk, sometimes by way of the Charles river, to this little sandwich-joint/gourmet-grocer/coffee-shop. We never know what is going to […]

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”
-Noam Chomsky
“I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.”
-Noam Chomsky
“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”
-Noam Chomsky

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I thought, being in the the software field, I was the only one who caught this subtle mistake from the the second Bush-Kerry presidential debate.
Watch the debates online.

Well, my boss didn’t get the memo that today is Columbus day. However, I think everyone else in Boston has the day off. The place is a ghost town. I should not be complaining as I do get a holiday of sorts. I did not have to jockey my car this morning in […]

What the Bleep Do We Know
My aunt Claudia recommended this film and I must admit it looks pretty interesting. Ever since I saw the PBS special on String Theory I have been interested in quantum physics. Check out this description from the web site:
“WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?!” is a new type of […]

A few months back, I posted on my little brother’s graduation from high school. Now he is road-trippin’ across the USA in order to go to school in Rancho Cucamunga, California. St. Louis is now in his rear view mirror… look out West Coast!

Riding on the Red Line this morning, I noticed, on the tunnel wall, a =
movie playing. By placing a series of images on the tunnel wall, looking=
out the train window while the train moves through the tunnel, creates =
the illusion of a motion picture. I thought this was very cool… […]

I had previously only ever stopped in the airport of Phoenix. This time, I spent a week. What a beautiful place. I’m struck by all the panoramas one sees in all directions. It’s very flat, with these gigantic rock formations jutting out in random places. I talked with a woman from Phoenix […]