Saw POA last night, loved it. The filter color change in the filming made the whole atmosphere appropriately more gothic. Gary Oldman lived up to my high expectations as Sirius; he managed to be an over-the-top madman at points and a compassionate and generous person at others, hard to carry off. Loved the Dementors. Loved …
Declan McCullagh’s article advocating the abolition of the FCC is a must-read, even if you disagree with him (for the record, I don’t). In fact, he argues that the FCC may now be downright counterproductive: Consider some examples of bureaucratic malfeasance that the FCC, with the complicity of the U.S. Congress, has committed. The FCC …
Last week while I was in my work-and-house frenzy I missed an interesting anniversary: the bicentennial of the birth of Richard Cobden, one of my favorite people from British history. Cobden and his Quaker friend John Bright founded the Anti-Corn-Law League, which fought the protectionist legislation put into place to restrict wheat imports after Napoleon’s …
Today Apple announced a new wireless mobile base station that also will stream music to your stereo. How awesome is this? We’ve been talking about whether to have the electrician string speaker wire and ethernet (he’ll probably do CAT-5 and some ethernet), but between the AirPort Express, Bluetooth-enabled speakers, and laptops, we won’t have to …
Hi all, This is likely to be a crazy week, between work and house. Sporadic posting, probably toward end of week. And if you’ve emailed me and I haven’t responded, I sincerely apologize for being more of a spaz than usual. Things will get back on a more typical track next week. For now, I …
I knew I wasn’t alone when I came into the department earlier this week and saw that someone (I know who!) labeled a storage closet near the men’s room the “Chamber of Secrets” … Anyway, Gary Oldman will be on NBC’s Today Show on Monday 31 May. I have two friends who say that they …
So we are in a temporary, furnished apartment while we have some serious work done on the house. We decided to take this as an opportunity to live in a neighborhood in which we wouldn’t otherwise live: Old Town. One of the interesting architectural features of the neighborhood is the number of old worker’s cottages …
One thing about owning a 1929 house with a yard, as opposed to a 1999 new construction condo, is that you get quite familiar with the large box home retailers. We have lots of Home Depots around us and a Lowe’s about a 20-minute drive into a suburb. We have new homeowner 10% off coupons …
So the first thing I do on Wednesday morning when we start working on the house was to rake the forlorn front lawn to free it of cigarette butts, old toys, hunks of concrete, etc. My husband was taking a whack at the two-foot tall weeds in the backyard with a weed whacker, which I …
There is nothing like a house closing to reinforce the point that transaction costs are real, and large. I am astounded at the layers and complexities of the transaction costs in real estate transactions. Even our lawyer, who has a lovely and well-honed sardonic sense of humor, looked at some of the papers we had …
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