Caltrain's Baby Bullet Wins Tranny Award
From the "Headlines I wasn't expecting to see" department.
Monthly Archive for May, 2005
I'm off to Vegas to see an early showing of Serenity tonight at The Palms (San Francisco was sold out, and as an excuse to go to Vegas goes, I'll take it), and I'm staying through the weekend.
I haven't been to Vegas since I was 12. I was there with a friend for his mom's wedding. While Excalibur is moderately kid friendly, we ran out of things to do at some point during the weekend, and decided to run up and down and then back up and again back down the tower's 28 flights of stairs.
I suspect I'll be able to find a little more to entertain myself with this time around...
I enjoyed it for the most part, but I can't help but think Lucas saw Return of the King and got jealous; "I can end my epic with a battle to the death above glowing lava too!"
I heard the news on the radio while driving home, and it was the best thing I'd heard out of Washington in a long time. The scary question is: how many more situations like this will arise in the next four years where one outcome will result in such utter relief while the other outcome would be as unimaginably terrible?
Joel on Software - Bionic Office
A9 just moved to a new office with a lot of interesting angles, and I was reminded of this article about a neat looking office space.
Dear New York,
Okay, you have a very nice city.
But don't let it go to your head! Besides, I'm already pretty much over the humidity thing, and it's only May.
Love,
Benjy
Joel on Software - Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
I'm almost totally convinced. The next time I'm in a position to affect a coding convention, I'll reference this article. And hopefully by then, we'll have tools that can check hungarian "types."
Remember when we used to have those "presidential veto" things? Yeah, those were cool.
Rick's free ticket mojo came through again, and I'm leaving for New York Thursday afternoon, and I get back Monday night. I've never been, so I'm very excited; If anyone has any recommendations, drop me an email or give me a call.
Unfortunately, my sleep schedule has been drifting in the wrong direction for the last few weeks, so hopefully I'll be able to get up at a reasonable time to enjoy the days while I'm there.
Boy am I going to be in for a rude awakening when I actually have to start paying for my own vacations...
British Elections - So were you still up for Galloway?
I heard this interview with George Galloway the other night in which Jeremy Paxman asked Galloway "Are you proud of having got rid of one of the very few black women in Parliament?" Suffice it to say, my politically correct mid-90s upbringing didn't train me to even know where to start reasoning about this question.