David Ascher
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Word trivia
Discovery for the day: the #1 hit on Google for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a page at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Whodathunkit?
Lightweight Languages Workshop in Boston
The program for the lightweight languages workshop is set (just in time, too — it’s on Dec 4!). I got to read the abstracts as I’m on the PC, and I wish I could be there to hear the talks. Go there and blog about it please! I’m particularly interested...
Take that, Dewey
A bookstore in San Francisco organizes its books based on the rarely used Wavelength Classification system. Beautifully useless.
Parade
Went to see the parade of santa claus’es downtown today. It was a traffic mess, but the kids liked it, as is obvious in the pictures above (Sylvia was on my shoulders and Hugo on Emily’s — I like the twistable frame of the Nikon Coolpix 950 for this sort...
Optimistic People Abound
In the tradition of badger badger badger, here is the llama song (via Daren Barefoot). A nice way to end the week.