The watermains are getting an early start this season – usually they don’t start popping until mid-December or January. (I don’t know why, but for the past several years, we’ve had two or three breaks each winter.)
Fortunately the guy from WSSC was a bit more careful about parking his truck than the crew from Washington Gas a few months ago.
The TED Talks (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) have a reputation for being quite fascinating, though perhaps a bit disconnected from every day life. For example, David Gallo’s talk about astonishing creatures living beneath the seas. They’re all fascinating (particularly the octipus at the end), but how much relevance does it have to every day life?
But then we have other talks, such as this one by investor Yossi Vardi who talks about how important it is to prevent not just global warming, but local warming too.
This seems to imply that it’s OK to run over people if they aren’t in the crosswalk.
I feel obliged to point out that in order to take this photo, I had to step out of the crosswalk. And yes, I did notice the oncoming semi. (That street is closed most Sundays for outdoor concerts and the like. The truck was there to pick up the equipment.)
A piece of my stir-fry didn’t go down quite the right way with the result that I had a minor coughing fit.
Throughout the incident, Wylie looked at me with a look of grave concern, clearly worried. From the way he held himself, it was clear that there was only one thing on his mind:
If you choke to death, can I have your dinner?
Installing a piece of software at work on Friday, I at long last arrived at the final screen of the product’s install process. It displayed a list of installation notes with these helpful words:
Always read the Installation Instructions
Section below before any install.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like that might have been a useful thing to display on the first screen.
The possibility of Wylie doing something like this is only one reason why I don’t have a video game console in the house.
Yes, it’s true. Sesame Street has sold out – to Google! Never mind that whole “Veggie Monster” flap from a few years ago, check out this video of Cookie Monster singing the praises of Google. (“When me hear a bugling sound, it make me want to Google around.”) Kermit the Frog even gets into, billing Cookie Monster as “one of the world’s finest Googlers.” (It’s no wonder, “with a Google, Google here and a Google, Google there.”)
What’s truly amazing is that they recorded this song 26 years ago. They managed to sell out 16 years before Google launched!