An otherwise bland NYT article has an amusing anecdote about the former Chief Justice tucked into the end: …Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist [...] once skipped the State of the Union address in the Reagan era to attend to other matters. The speech “conflicted with the watercolor class he was taking at the local Y.M.C.A.,” Chief Justice Roberts, who had [...]
J.D. Salinger died yesterday, and so I can’t help but think about Catcher in the Rye. Like most people, I read it in high school. I hated it. I hated just about every moment of it. I hated the slang, I hated the dated values, and I especially hated that I was supposed to care about a self-centered, arrogant, whiny [...]
Perhaps it’s years of training, but I tend to think about a lot of things through the metaphor of theater. When I meet new people I feel like I’m auditioning; when I’m at parties I feel like I’m on stage. But more than meatspace, the internet is a veritable smorgasbord of creative expression. You’ve got just about any show you [...]
Wired Magazine has renewed its Sexiest Geeks of the year voting (warning: yesterday it had photoshopped naked people, so possibly NSFW), and let’s face it: that list is crap. Instead of a list of Geeks Who Are Sexy, the submissions to Wired list People That Geeks Find Sexy—an entirely different category. Most of the men and women on the list [...]
