A day at the air show can leave you breathless, but too sun-drenched to blog — so we’ll have to let the picture do its thousand words. More on the March AFB Airfest 2008 to come — once we catch our breath.

Hooray! Robot-using dogs! [thx Laughing Squid]

TPM: GOP Bid to Block Amendments on Surveillance Bill Fails.
Louisiana readers note: Mary Landrieu was one of only four Dems to cross the line to vote in favor of administration secrecy and telcom immunity.

Tomorrow — Monday, January 28 — the Senate will take up the question of cloture on the FISA Amendments Act (S. 2248). Now before your eyes glaze, this is important! Ever say anything on the phone or in an e-mail that you would rather not share with loyal Bushie operatchiks? Believe Bush administration should keep […]

A very cool HD broadcast of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Milan. Very sharp! (It was on MTV’s HD channel. Here’s a link to the channel’s incredibly lame web site [don’t bother] [these people really need to talk to Ethan] and here’s a link to a You Tubed bootleg of one of the numbers […]

Many faithful readers will know that Val and I share a bottle of Veuve Clicquot every Friday night. Of course, the wine is good, but it is the sparkling moment it creates — a moment in every busy week to toast our lovely and lucky partnership in life — that has kept the tradition going […]

Thanks to Mark and Michelle, the Cohens are now part of the largest distributed computing project in history! Among the many marvels of our new Playstation 3: the ease with which we are suddenly folding@home. Wikipedia will tell you that means we’re letting Stanford University use our playstation’s “downtime” to “perform computationally intensive simulations of […]

I was exactly like a kid. The box came and I saw that I’d received the coolest possible holiday present — I squealed, I called my friends and I ran around the house until I bonked. Seriously. So, I have that weird exhaustion usually reserved for excited sugar-rushers on xmas morning, the kind where they […]

What a nice Sunday we had with Ethan and Amy. We started with a 2 p.m. lunch and they headed home at 9:30. It was great to hear about Ethan’s non-representational adventures in MFA-land and how he found the rockin’ Amy and about the time they lived in an art project on an island in […]

It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and weehoo, let the All Holiday Gaming Marathon begin! The Holiday Game arrived! This year’s selection: The Simpsons Game. I chose it because it would run on the PS2 and it was touted as funny and fun. I hoped it would the provide hours of lazy, laughing gaming that’s […]

… I don’t have a lot of time to post. I’ve got duties to attend to like making Janice’s Lemon Tart and accompanying the Birthday Girl to Royal Health Spa for a scrub. And I don’t mean to put Mark off about what I think of my shiny new Leopard operating system, but the truth […]

California wildfire smoke as viewed from NASA satellites. Read more about this image at nasa.gov. Image credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response

Bigtime software wiz Joe Gregorio notes the NYTimes spreading the wealth. Joe highlights why this is cool in technical terms, and I’m happy to see them do as the Lawrence dudes did. Let’s hope we see more of this sort of thing.

Deadline U.S.A. Shoeleather and whiskey, a good story, bad marriages, odious beancounter interference in the newsroom and the evil of media consolidation — Plus: Bogey!
On my plate today: The new mini is sure enough zippy! But, making it con-ready, that’s a slow business. I’m learning new software and trying to move what’s necessary from […]

You know who you are:
• Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan
• The inked Canadian idiot laptop thief gets LOLed. Check it out.
• The illusion of blogger anonymity: A federally-funded artificial intelligence lab is figuring out how to track people over the Internet, based on how they write.
• Several Dem answers […]

Spent the day cleaning up 8 years of cruft and copying stuff onto a stand-alone drive to make the transfer to the dazzling new platform. It’s always boring-est before the light, I guess.

Yeah! New Mac is in da howse!!!!

In 1999, when the dotcom gravy train was still rolling down Covina Avenue and I was a highly-compensated web maven, I did a little dance when Val slipped the sleek and silvery PowerMac G4 from its box and plugged it into its mammoth monitor. She was a thing of beauty, power and speed and I […]

It can be a blur. All the good, all the bad, all the uncountable details of just getting through the day, month, year, decade. Looking back, it gets harder to pin a tail on this memory or that. I find it harder to say “this is the way it was,” with the kind of certainty […]

A B-1B Lancer — like this one –flew over my block on Monday. The noise was incredible, weird and thrilling. Ajax did his thunder bark, hackles up, jumping and barking at the ceiling. I looked out the front window and there it was big and banking and low over the end of my block. It […]