If I had more acting chops, I’d love to make a parody video of the Tom Cruise video, where I’m blathering on about fixing email. “If you see a bad From: header, you have to stop and help”. “I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything (insert [...]

Jane got robbed on her train ride back from ETech.
That brings to mind my experience with a vancouver thief, which, it turns out, did not end there, but I never updated this pseudo-historical record of random events.
On closer inspection of the garage, we found that in addition to stealing two bikes, they’d left a glove. [...]

We just saw The March of the Penguins. I think it’s the best argument against Intelligent Design I’ve heard yet. What a silly way to bring up a next batch of genes…

A treat I’ve recently uncovered at the corner store (Nadi’s, who, IIRC, hails from Lebanon) are maamoul, little cakes filled with dates. The store has stocked different brands, all from Saudi Arabia, with the latest definitely being the best: it has a surprisingly fresh pastry (especially if one acknowledges that it’s shipped from Jeddah). [...]