The September Cody's Events calendar is out! Jeremy Rifkin, Sarah Vowell, Tom Hayden, and David Edmonds (author of Wittgenstein's Poker) are among the luminaries making author appearances.

I had dinner with Anirvan and dessert with mutual friends Michelle and Christina. Anirvan told me, among other things, that BookFinder now has a company weblog ("Information Week had a cover story on weblogs [for …

Having pets inures a petowner to gross icky work, smoothing the path to successful reproduction and care of offspring. I guess this is good for society as a whole.

I am assuming that Susan Calvin did not believe in robot predestination, as per her behavior in the story "Robot Dreams."

I wrongly remembered some song lyrics and couldn't remember the title or artist. Me: Something something, always getting faster, something something, like a roller coaster... Leonard: Is that a TV theme song? Me: No! Leonard: …

Kris suggests putting ant traps/poison between the ants' entry point and the cat food that attracts them. Relatedly, Leonard helped me by placing ant posison slow-release devices in relevant locations. I can't stand being close …

I've asked some people for advice on the catfood problem. My next-door neighbor suggested floating the food bowl in a basin of water to create an ant-proof moat. The fella buying cat food in my …

Surprising things occurred today. I saw Anirvan, Michelle, and Christina, and glimpsed Matt Holohan, all at Cody's. I finally got a MacGuffin I'd been trying to get for a while. And I picked up a …

How do I put out cat food such that other life forms (e.g., stray cats and ants) don't get at it?

I moved the cat's food dish recently so ants wouldn't get at it so easily. I tried to explain this to the cat by holding the dish where it used to be and then leading …