Seattle Life – Today we drove over to Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church for the Greek Festival. It was packed; tons of people, and lots of good food. The gyros were being made from frozen preprocessed strips of meat, so it wasn’t exactly like the Greek food I got hooked on in Detroit, [...]
Go – To my generation, Go is both a song and a movie. Beyond it’s common use as a verb, Go is also the name of the oldest, most strategic, and probably simplest board game known to man. Despite the fact that no computer has ever been able to play Go beyond beginner [...]
Anthraxination – Sick today, with the same cold that my wife and daughter have had for two weeks. I’d rather have a natural sickness than a man-made one anyway. Of the biological threats that the U.S. is most wary of, Anthrax tops the list. Anthrax is 100,000 times more deadly than the [...]
Shadow Economy – Knight Ridder picks up on the Hawala angle I mentioned earlier. The author misses a big part of the equation, though, by saying that things will eventually even out between the Hawala dealers in different countries. Not without smuggling, they won’t. There are a heck of a lot more [...]
Pacifiers – Today MSNBC says that “pacifists are evil”. As much as I enjoy seeing polemic turned against someone other than Microsoft, and as much as I disagree with some pacifist notions, I think the article is seriously logically flawed. A pacifist is someone who believes that violence is an ineffective method of [...]