Sometimes dread does have a name. For example, this morning I dreaded my mother. I snuck upstairs with my cereal because every time she sees me make a bowl of cereal she criticizes me for …
Reread Anurag Mathur's book The Inscrutable Americans. Much like R.K. Narayan's My Dateless Diary, which is better and which mentions Berkeley. The funniest portion of the Mathur novel concerns our Indian visitor's discovery of American …
Yesterday I tried to "show San Francisco" to a cousin, Anand-from-Michigan. Of course, that went miserably, because the wonder and loveliness of San Francisco is the many little neighborhoods with distinctive characters, and the bookstores, …
This set of links on Gödel, Escher, Bach includes a reference to...Clifford Pickover!
Today's Papers gives me good news and bad news. Bad news: the India/Pakistan situation seems to steadily move towards war. Dammit! Good news: a leaked draft implies that the military tribunals won't be as horrendous …
I am considering making a New Year's Resolution. I should probably make any such goal manageable. "Reduce clutter" and the like might be good. I can start the new palindromic year with elegant open spaces …
Spent too much time reading books instead of brutally eliminating them from "must have in new flat" selection. Now, checking my grades. And... they're all in! B in Imperial Russian History, B in Political Psych, …
Cingular Wireless has gotten on my nerves to an extent normally reserved for members of my family. The fella who sold us a Family Plan at the Stockton store made us several -- I'd say …
By the way, you may wish to check out holiday pictures and Kris's, Susanna's, Leonard's, and Frances's recollections of the season..
Back in Berkeley. I believe that the good times, as I told Seth, have temporarily stopped rolling, but I had a terrific week or so of vacation. I'm cleaning and sorting -- err, arranging. My …
