Year: 2008
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Movie: The Bank Job
I’m a sucker for a heist movie. The Bank Job isn’t brilliant, but fun all the same. Jason Statham, mildly known from the Transporter movies, and recognizable from The Italian Job (“Handsome Rob,” the driver), carries the movie through some rough spots, even without all the opportunities for action which mark his previous roles. I…
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New Neal Stephenson in September
Via Slashdot, I learn that Neal Stephenson’s new novel is coming in September. Not pre-ordering right now, but on the list.
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Setting the bar at floor level
It’s Not You, It’s Your Books, a recent essay in the New York Times, includes this snippet. Let’s face it — this may be a gender issue. Brainy women are probably more sensitive to literary deal breakers than are brainy men. (Rare is the guy who’d throw a pretty girl out of bed for revealing…
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Happy Birthday
Clock (this blog) is now 5, and I’m (cough) older than that. Still, I matched last year’s mile time of 5:23 (1:19/1:20/1:22/1:21 splits), which brightened the already-beautiful day a bit more. Only hiccup was Kezar was closed for pesticide application, which I found out after running over this morning. So I had to drive over…
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Sunday night links
In an effort to start the week with a clean(er) inbox… Nothing like bowling to bring a smile. Thanks for the pic, Cory. I’m reading this book right now, so I’ll review this podcast after I finish it. Wikis make a lot of sense to me, so I want to find time to listen to…
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Commodity or currency?
Daylight Savings Time provided an excuse for the New York Times to run the Op-Ed column Time Out Of Mind a couple of weeks ago. The author, Stefan Klein, blends scientific studies and literary references to remind us that measuring time leads to changed perceptions of same. Stress and mistakes are also common for those…
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Book: Deep Storm
I bought Deep Storm by Lincoln Child in the airport for the airplane, but never got to it until riding the bus to work last week. Took me maybe three bus rides to finish. Pure cotton candy: tastes OK while you’re eating it, but nothing there. It was my recovery book after Fisk.
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3 complete
Boring, but happy it’s done.
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Prepping for the blog upgrade
About time I moved from version 2.0.3 of WordPress. Last post before I do so…
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The kind of news I wish The Atlantic was wrong about
Jim Fallows reminds us that The Atlantic’s efforts to be timeless rather than timely often result in scarily accurate predictions. I wish 2005’s Countdown to a Meltdown were less accurate. 🙁 Just one of the many points, written as a memo to the incoming president of 2016: For politicians every aspect of this cycle was…