October 3, 2008
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McCain’s lost moment
So we just passed a bail-out package that’s marginally better than the one voted down on Monday. But it’s still a bail-out package. When McCain “suspended” his campaign last week and said he was “going back to Washington” to straighten out this thing, I thought, Uh oh. If he goes back there and truly kicks… Continue reading
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Giving good wait
I’ve been reading John McPhee’s Giving Good Weight, the title essay of his book by the same name. That last link (to McPhee’s own site) calls it “a story of farmers selling their produce in the Greenmarkets of New York City as told by a journalist who went to work for an upstate farmer, and… Continue reading
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Um, wait a millennium…
Joe Biden might not have been lying when he said global warming was “caused by man”, but he was at best only partially right. The globe has been warming for the last 20000 years or so: ever since the last ice sheet began to retreat, leaving Long Island, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod, the Great… Continue reading
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Caffeine Nation
I was just standing on line at a Starbucks where the entire conversation, involving everybody in the line, was about their iPhones. Two topics: operations and applications. Operations was about managing battery life and connectivity by manipulating settings. Applications was about everything: Who has what and recommends what. The lesson: this is a data device:… Continue reading