Monthly Archives: June 2012

Last night I went to the first, amazing performance of an oddly titled one-man play about Occupy Boston. (You can guess who had the connection to get the ticket.) For 90 minutes, as maybe 30 different characters, Danny Bryck delivered … Continue reading →

Today was an almost perfect day. Sarah and I biked through the Emerald Necklace to the Arnold Arboretum (like everything else around here, part of the Harvard hegemony), about 12 miles round trip. The weather was sunny and beautiful, to … Continue reading →

Last night Sarah and I went to Sky Jam at Boston Skyzone. Skyzone is every child’s dream house come to life: a place where the floor is made of endless trampolines (ok, 10,000 sq. ft.). That is essentially the whole … Continue reading →

For reasons that are a long, sad, story, I needed to install RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux to an external USB hard drive. Not a LiveUSB installer, with passwordless root, writable overlays, and all that jazz, but an honest to goodness standard install … Continue reading →

On Tuesday I went to an abortion conference at Suffolk University Law School, next to the Boston Common. It consisted of about 6 15-minute speeches, given by representative from NARAL MA, the ACLU, and other organizations, about the history and … Continue reading →

On my flight back from Seattle two weeks ago, I sat next to a roofing contractor who grew up in Cape Cod but lives in Tacoma, flying back for his aunt’s funeral in Connecticut. He told me that he is … Continue reading →

To anyone who grew up on Mr. Wizard, solar distillation is the obvious method for purifying drinking water. Simply place the input in sunlight in a suitably shaped container, let the sun’s energy evaporate water out of the contaminated solution, … Continue reading →

Yesterday my girlfriend Sarah took me to my first pride parade. That would be the Boston gay pride parade, at least traditionally, but in recent years the term “gay” has been dropped in the interest of inclusiveness. We positioned ourselves … Continue reading →

At a party last night I managed to tell an insensitive joke in such poor taste that I actually offended myself. I immediately retracted it, which is of course impossible. It was a good reminder that effort is required to … Continue reading →