In Memorium: Arthur Lo
This morning I found out that my senior thesis advisor, Arthur Lo, passed away nearly two months ago. This came on the heels of a Facebook chat with a good friend who similarly found out her favorite professor and advisor died recently. Perhaps it’s a sign that we’re in that sandwich phase of adulthood, tending [...]
Just When It Can Get No Worse
It gets worse. I love Chico’s comment: “This team might not be together next year.” Of course they won’t be together next year, because short playoff runs are depressing. Colin White: miss your guy, then reach instead of skating. And his guy was Carcillo. Kind of sums it up. Mike Mottau: Three words: “Where’s my [...]
Pathetic Devils Effort
Why are Colin White and Mike Mottau together? On the winning goal, Colin White (a) followed his guy behind the net (b) reached, leaned and otherwise made lazy swipes at the puck and (c) left Mottau to remember to cover the weak side (oops). These two don’t belong on the ice at all, let alone [...]
Bringing It Home
Now on the way home from Ole Miss, via Memphis and Houston. It was a great trip from the work perspective, giving me a chance to talk to Ole Miss business and computer science students about directions in software, privacy, security and trust, and how their work will shape user experiences in the next decade. [...]
Hey Mom, I’m Going To Oxford
Oxford, Mississippi, that is. Home of Ole Miss, and the location of the ACM Southeast Conference, the longest-running regional ACM conference. Should be a fun trip, kicking off with a meeting with the Ole Miss supercomputer center team. In planning our logistics, one theme kept popping up: where were we going to get BBQ? I [...]
Playoff Minion
Here’s a statistic you won’t hear Chico Resch cough up on a break in play: There are three Jewish players on three different teams in the playoffs for what may be the first time in NHL history. Jeff Halpern (Kings), Mathieu Schneider (Coyotes) and Mike Cammalleri (Canadiens) are all vying for a chance to make [...]
Playoff Predictions
Time for some NHL playoff predictions. The Kings are going to shock everyone. Their goaltending situation has gone from stable to solid, and they have one of the best teams of young players with Frolov, Kopitar and Doughty. Their veteran leadership is tough and has been through a grueling first-round matchup before. Rewind to 99-00, [...]
Raul Midon’s “Synthesis”
New CD by wonderful singer, songwriter and guitarist Raul Midon is out today. “Synthesis” contains much of the material he played on last year’s tour with Stanley Jordan, nearly a year after he started putting tracks onto disk. I was sold when he opened the solo performance with Don’t Take It That Way,; it’s not [...]
SitePoint Podcast with the book trio
Had the pleasure of recoding SitePoint podcast #56 with Brad Williams and David Damstra, my co-authors on Professional WordPress. As usual, it was fun romp through the process of writing a book, some of our favorite parts, and what it’s like to write with people you never met in person (sort of the inverse of [...]
Electric Sheep, Wil Wheaton and “Big Bang Theory”
Just watched “Big Bang Theory” with Wil Wheaton making a guest appearance. In two different Diesel Sweeties t-shirts. You can read the gory details of the episode’s filming and the wardrobe backstory in Weaton’s blog about it. It was the first bit of network, prime time, non-sports television that I’ve watched in at least 18 [...]