Here’s a sports-related question that I’ve never in my life considered until this morning when the guy I was talking to on the train asked me what I thought about the subject. He asked, “Do you think college sports players should be paid to play?” I don’t know the arguments, pros or cons, in response…
Ugh! I’ve got to break this cycle soon. It’s too much what it was like when I lived in L.A. and worked nonstop from morning until night. I haven’t been going to the gym and that’s got to stop to. Especially since I’ve been trading gym time for work time. Today was like every other…
Reading the chapter on Confucius, I came across the most remarkable passage, attributed to the sage. It is a passage that from the ground up, instructs a nation to be a nation of highest virtue. What it all seems to come down to, according to Confucius, is knowledge. Why is the question for knowledge so…
The mail just arrived (unusually late) and I received the March 2008 issue of ASIMOV’S and the April 2008 issue of ANALOG. That issue of ANALOG means I now have Joe Haldeman’s entire novel, Marsbound. I’ve only read part 1 of the serial thus far; when I have a chance, I can now read parts…
Driving home from the Metro station this evening, it there was a light rain but a bright sky in the west. While approaching the railroad tracks (and waiting for a MARC train to pass by), I noticed an incredibly bright rainbow in the east. The photo (taken with my iPhone) doesn’t really do it justice.…
A few minutes ago, I left India behind (after a fascinating chapter on Gandhi, written, remember, back in the early 1930s) and I’m about to dive into the history of China (and then Japan) and I’ve been really looking forward to these.
I just finished a scalding hot shower. There’s nothing like a hot shower to warm you up on a cold, cold day. And now, finally, I’ve crawled into be with my book and a tall glass of chocolate milk. A very pleasant evening to you all!
This afternoon, after work, I braved the metro Red Line (with delays abound over the long weekend due to station maintenance) to head over to Union Station and get our train tickets for this weekend. I had a free companion voucher that could only be redeemed in-person. But Kelly and I now have round-trip tickets…
I mentioned earlier in the month how 2007 was my worst year for reading since I started keeping track way back in 1996. While I don’t, as a rule, make Resolutions, I am trying to turn the reading trend around this year by reading Will (and Ariel) Durant’s Story of Civilization. There are 11 books…
My brain is chock full of object classes, inheritance, polymorphism, data collections, assertions, loop invariants, capital-I interfaces, generics, sessions, caching and hashing and no more will fit. I’ve literally filled up that portion of my brain that thinks in programming terms. Nothing new will go in. And I’m not really sure what to do, so…
I don’t know exactly how cold it was this morning, but it must have been pretty darn cold. Knowing that the trains would not be busy today because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, I slept in this morning and took a later train, getting into the office around 8 AM (instead of 5:30…
Kelly and I went to see The Bucket List this afternoon, even after reading reviews that were, in general, not good. But you know what, screw the reviewers and let us make our own judgments. And a good thing that, because we both liked the movie quite a bit. Roger Ebert, with whom I usually…