David Ascher

Google has Google.org, which has a billion dollars of seed money and little goals like literacy, clean water, eradicating poverty and other small projects.

all worthy aspects of human life are, directly or indirectly, conjugations of the verb, “to eat”.

Noticed this week: getting a new keyboard for a powerbook is a time-consuming affair. Dell sends keyboards overnight for installation by the user (nice & easy). For the powerbook, it took close to a week in the shop. That was rough, but I survived.

In an email this morning:

Sometime during the night of Saturday to Sunday my lovely cat Syd took out her fears of aging on my keyboard, and ripped out a half-dozen keys from my powerbook keyboard, left open on the dining room table. She’s lucky that I’d already killed on key earlier by dropping a...