Impending Summer: the Bad and the Good

Summer is definitely just around the corner.

Yesterday at work, when the design team had a lengthy meeting, we went out onto the deck to sit in the sun. I didn't have a hat. Woke up at 3 AM this morning with my head on fire. Ow ow ow.

On the plus side, the strawberry plants have started to flower. Only a bit over a month until the annual strawberry explosion...

Impending Summer: the Bad and the Good

Summer is definitely just around the corner.

Yesterday at work, when the design team had a lengthy meeting, we went out onto the deck to sit in the sun. I didn't have a hat. Woke up at 3 AM this morning with my head on fire. Ow ow ow.

On the plus side, the strawberry plants have started to flower. Only a bit over a month until the annual strawberry explosion...

New Horizons in Bad Name Ideas

Nintendo has announced the official name of their upcoming next-generation games console. Or, as Andrew Wheeler put it, the have announced that they are hopeless at naming things. His post is more amusing than what I would have written myself, so go read it.

New Horizons in Bad Name Ideas

Nintendo has announced the official name of their upcoming next-generation games console. Or, as Andrew Wheeler put it, the have announced that they are hopeless at naming things. His post is more amusing than what I would have written myself, so go read it.

Metahacker doppelganger is a famed joggler

On my way home last night on the T, I picked up a discarded paper to browse. Usually, it turns out to be the Metro, but this one was the Somerville News (for April 26). There was a picture on the front page that I thought for just a moment was of metahacker. Turned out not to be him, but a fellow named Zach Warren. He was pictured in the act of breaking a world record for "joggling". He finished the Boston Marathon in 2:58:23, while juggling three balls the entire way.

This was a fundraising stunt to help him fund a return trip to Afghanistan, where he recently spent a stint using "circus arts to promote public health messages". He plans to do a study investigatng whether measurements of laughter and smiling can be used as "an indicator of health -- a standard of public health measurement".

Nice to occasionally see news stories about people doing Good, Cool Stuff.

Metahacker doppelganger is a famed joggler

On my way home last night on the T, I picked up a discarded paper to browse. Usually, it turns out to be the Metro, but this one was the Somerville News (for April 26). There was a picture on the front page that I thought for just a moment was of metahacker. Turned out not to be him, but a fellow named Zach Warren. He was pictured in the act of breaking a world record for "joggling". He finished the Boston Marathon in 2:58:23, while juggling three balls the entire way.

This was a fundraising stunt to help him fund a return trip to Afghanistan, where he recently spent a stint using "circus arts to promote public health messages". He plans to do a study investigatng whether measurements of laughter and smiling can be used as "an indicator of health -- a standard of public health measurement".

Nice to occasionally see news stories about people doing Good, Cool Stuff.