Nabby and Turco had career games tonight in-net. Chuq will have wise things to say later, but still, damn.
Going from the assumption that the Sharks and Stars were evenly matched, then we had a one in sixteen chance of pulling it off.
We’ll get to the Cup final, one of these days.
Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s fantastic group blog, Making Light, had a major server failure, with data loss.
They’ve recovered the bulk of the missing posts, but plenty of the comment threads are missing, and Making Light, unlike most blogs, has good comments.
If you’ve subscribed to Making Light comments in your feed reader or Planet, check your caches, and a post at Abi Sutherland’s weblog to see if can help them recover.
Remember that WordPress now has a one-click backup, schedule it.
I’ve published some photos from my trip to the 2008 Maker Faire.
The set includes a Babbage Engine constructed from a Mechanno Set, my friend Peter’s iPhone controlled watering can, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, a flying model of a Mercury Redstone rocket, and a large, menacing alien tripod.
I found an airship avatar at Grendel’s Children.
It’s great for tooling around Steampunk sims like Babbage Square.
And as you see in the photo below, it’s small. Great for days you want to be a Steampunk version of a drone from Ian M. Banks’ Culture novels.
Hey, wait, I was on a GSV with that guy.
Regarding Game Four of the NHL Western Conference Semi-Final:
We do what we must because we can.
The Sharks still have science to do. See you in San Jose on Friday night.
April 25, 2008 – 12:48 am
The management at the Moscone Center try to prevent a panelist at the Web 2.0 conference from bringing their 4 month old child with them. Kirrily Robert comments:
Yeah. If given a choice between a crying kid who can be taken outside and out of the way, let alone a well behaved kid, and that bearded guy in the second row who’s always interrupting speakers to ask tangential, rambling questions (which, in fact, are actually statements), I know who I’d rather have at my tech conference.
Yeah, I think we all know that bearded guy interrupting panels.
April 20, 2008 – 12:03 am
Jens, I think it’s fine to reply to someone’s blog post with a post in your own blog, rather than a comment:
- If your readers don’t read the other blog, then your readers won’t know about the post.
- Replying to a contentious post on someone else’s blog, by posting it to your own blog is like counting to ten and taking a deep breath.
- The best response to “I hate your blog,” is to remind someone that it’s easy to have one of their own.
April 17, 2008 – 12:03 am
Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (published in the US as Daughters of the North) won the Tiptree Award for the best work of science fiction or fantasy dealing with gender published during 2007.
Also of interest to readers of this blog, Charlie Stross’ Glasshouse was on the short list.
More details in the press release. Waiting for tiptree.org to be updated.
John Archibald Wheeler, contemporary of Einstein and Bohr, died this past Sunday.
When he was at the University of Texas, he taught a non-major survey course on relativity and quantum mechanics. It was one of the best classes I took there. Professor Wheeler was witty, patient and a great teacher. Every lesson was designed to build on the last. I wish I had kept his handouts.
He had a wonderful, “ha, ha, only serious” view of cosmology, ending the term with a cartoon of a question mark with an eyeball at the end of the loop, looking back on itself, illustrating what he referred to as a “Participatory Anthropic Principle.” I’m probably misunderstanding what he meant by that, but the idea that observation of a photon that has been traveling for a billion years might affect the past is dizzying.
Daniel Holz, a student of Wheeler’s, has a great remembrance at Cosmic Variance.
April 12, 2008 – 11:32 am
Liz Henry: A reg exp is a thing of beauty but it is not a joy forever.
I just bought music off of MySpace from a band that only appears in a virtual world.
But to do that, I had to sign up for yet another vendor, Snocap. Fortunately, they use PayPal, so I didn’t have have to give them a credit card.
However, I wish that MySpace would had struck a deal with eMusic for selling tracks since I already have an account there.
Some of Chouchou songs have that sing-song, treacly sound that can make J-Pop annoying.
Their track ‘Neverland,’ however, sports a bossa-nova piano, breathless vocals, and a dead-on hook. Recommended.
