Yes, Mum & Dad… I am eating well. (This picture actually was stolen from someone else’s site, where you can see some really nice pictures of Los Angeles.) Go have a look… and then go read about the crazyass wonderful high tech stuff that the people who ate this food are working on! The Rubin Group, huh?
Month: December 2003
Bon Voyage
Here’s the most beautifully written little bon-voyage I’ve received so far in preparation for my upcoming trip to India: have a good time in india and may the words flow like the ganges, strong and rich and full of souls. Thanks, Rob.
Jaime Escalante
I just read a very interesting article over at reason.com titled Reason: Stand and Deliver Revisited: The untold story behind the famous rise — and shameful fall — of Jaime Escalante, America’s master math teacher. This courtesy of Brenda, a post at isomorphisms: representations of the identity. A blog which, by the way, absolutely rocks. Anyone who starts the bio on her about page with the following is gonna be interesting as hell: My name is Brenda, and I study mathematics. An unusual introduction, I know; there is other information, answers to more conventional questions, that could have served as …
The War, aka If you don’t like this deal…
Tell you what. Let’s make a deal. You believe what you want. I’ll believe what I want. If you agree to this deal, I’ll go into battle side by side with you to safeguard it. I’ll write books about it. I’ll wade through swamps under-munitioned to make sure it isn’t ripped from us, and I’ll cradle you in my arms when you’re shot to pieces, as I hope you will me. I’ll spend my life building machines that will safeguard our freedom, I’ll pay taxes to fund a governmental organization that will protect this sacred right of ours. If you …
Really, I don’t like this one bit…
But I’ll post it anyway. Er, thanks for violently executing the injection of this horrible thing into my poor unsuspecting head, Adam… And another scary thing, also c/o Adam, is here… Gollum in da haus, yo.