I finally finished In Joy Still Felt this evening, after nearly 2 weeks of reading it. As always, it was a great book, one of my favorites, as are all of Isaac Asimov’s autobiography volumes, and once again I was sad to have it finished. The next two books I’m sneaking in because I simply…
…not just the fact that they lost 2 out of 3 to the Red Sox, but that on the second play of the game, Matsui broke his wrist diving for a ball. He’s likely out 3 months, if not the whole season. And this puts an end to his remarkable 518 consecutive game playing streak.…
We here in the Metro DC area are under a tornado watch until 11 PM. It’s been raining pretty darn hard and the DirecTV went out right before Smallville was supposed to start, but it just came back on. Whew!
I received a “special invitation” in the mail today to the nation’s #1 conference on Real Estate Investing & Total Asset Protection. I have no idea why I would get something like this, but what puzzled me even more was the opening of the letter: “Beacuse you were referred to me…” Of course, it doesn’t…
I got the June issue of F&SF (Fantasy and Science Fiction) yesterday and it just reminded me of how for behind I am on periodical reading. The one magazine that I always try to keep up on (and to which I have been subscribed the longest) is SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. To illustrate just how far backlogged…
I change my outgoing voicemail message every morning to reflect the current date. It usually goes something like: This is Jamie Rubin. It’s Thursday, May 11. I’ll be in the building all day today. Please leave me a message. This morning, when the system beeped to record my outgoing message, I coughed and, of course,…
I woke up with a bad stomach ache this morning, the first such one I’ve had in a considerable amount of time. Ever since I cut off caffeine over two years ago, the number and severity of my stomach aches has dropped precipitously. It is very rare when I have one now, but this morning’s…
I’m a little behind in the news and finally got around to seeing Steven Colbert’s roast followed by the two Bush’s making their speech on CSPAN. I have to say that, although the President and I disagree on just about everything (frankly, I think it’s because he never listens to my advice), we agree that…
I’ve come up with an idea for an invention that will revolutionize business and allow me to retire rich and famous, and I’m posting it here to claim priority to it. My invention is this: TiVO for Business Meetings Can you imagine being able to pause live meetings? Or better yet, skip through them, or…
About a year ago, I got on the mailing list for COMPUTERWORLD, which is an IT trade magazine. Because I am an IT professional (I guess software developer counts as IT) I get the subscription for free. It is an awful magazine, I’m afraid and the few times I’ve tried to read it, I’ve found…