So excited to see our first box arrive from Terra Organics!
We’ve already started in on the vegetable-y goodness.
“Don’t be evil.”
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially Read more…
“Mr. Smith Rewrites the Constitution”
For the record, nothing like Senate Rule 22 appears in the Constitution, nor was there unlimited debate until Vice President Aaron Burr presided over the Senate in the early 180os. In 1917, after a century of chaos, the Senate put in the old Rule 22 to stop unlimited filibusters. Because it was about stopping real, often distressing, floor debate, one might have been able to defend that rule under Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution, which says, “Each house may determine the rule of its proceedings.” As revised in 1975, Senate Rule 22 seemed to be an improvement: it Read more…
Here’s a tip
Twice this year, thanks to tax-related questions for Mary Holste Design, I've wanted to talk to the IRS and ask some questions. And I now emerge with some words of advice. Never, never, NEVER, call the IRS. It will take forever and most likely you will never actually talk to the right person. The last time I called, I got bounced around to a million different departments, because no one could understand my question. Instead, visit them! If you're in Tacoma, the IRS has an office in the Wells Fargo building. I've never had to wait to talk to a Read more…
Beatles For Sale
For Christmas I got 6 Beatles albums, giving me a complete set. Most of what I got were the early albums: Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Days Night, and Beatles for Sale. I also got two late discs I’ve never really listened to: Yellow Submarine and Let It Be. In iTunes I’ve arranged them chronologically and I’ve been going through them this weekend. I knew that in those early albums there were many covers, some of them very well known. There have also been plenty of songs I’d never heard before. The Album that’s surprised me the Read more…
Wherein Erik heartily recommends “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”
I stayed up late last night to finish Stieg Larsson's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." I feel a little late to the party with this one. I first noticed the cover at Powells when I was there in November. And then suddenly everyone seemed to be reading it. And rightly so! It was a great mystery and a great read. As I'd been warned, it starts a little slow: the mystery seems to be about financial industry shenanigans, but Larsson moves past it and explores a mystery that becomes engrossing, though also graphic and brutal. Forewarning: the original Swedish Read more…
Worldwide development
Somehow I found myself working on a job with developers in New York, NY; Charlotte, NC; Santa Monica, CA; Bozeman, MT; Sydney, Australia; and London, England. Very happy my phone can keep my time zones straight.
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