General

I am looking forward to seeing a Live Scripting News session…

Where to live?.

I’m going to rent a place.

Should I go for Harvard Square? It’s like student housing. I’m 47. I’m used to my creature comforts. I must have a hot tub. How about around the law school off Mass Ave? Might be more interesting. Rent a house in Arlington? Lexington? Newton? I’m definitely not buying something, I don’t want to tie myself down again after wrestling free.

If you have any opinions let me know. I’m actually feeling homesick for Palo Alto right now. It’s colllld here. Brrrr.

Postscript: Looks like I’ll have to give on the hot tub. Based on email, people in Mass don’t think of them as necessities. A hot tub seems as important as front steps, a kitchen sink or a toilet, to me. But then I’ve been living in Calif for 23 years and I guess it’s warped my personality. Heh. Anyway, I just took a walk up Mass Ave towards Arlington, not too far, and it looks pretty good. I don’t really care if there’s a lawn. Being in walking distance to Harvard Square would be nice. A floor in a house would probably be enough. I must have a good net connection of course.

[Scripting News]

A. Bartlett Giamatti. “Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

A Teen Dies: Who Is Responsible?. The parents of a young man who committed suicide are suing a woman he met on an online discussion board that provides participants with detailed instructions on how to end their lives. They blame the woman for their son’s death. Part three in a series by Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]

and I’m in friggin Vegas..  ack!

Tuesday’s live session at Harvard will be at 6:30PM at Lewis International Law Center, room 301. Here’s a map of the law school campus. Dan Bricklin will be there. Peter Rukavina is coming from Prince Edward Island. This is so cool. As always the Web brings people together like nothing else before it. [Scripting News]

Bob Knight wins 800th game [CNN]

A friend points to the lyrics of “Fire in the Sky”, by Jordin Kare. It was while reading it that Buzz Aldrin, #2 man on the moon, broke down on TV…

Prometheus, they say, brought God’s fire down to man.
And we’ve caught it, tamed it, trained it since our history began.
Now we’re going back to heaven just to look him in the eye,
and there’s a thunder ‘cross the land, and a fire in the sky.

The lyrics in my own head were from Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush“…

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin’ mother nature’s silver seed
To a new home in the sun

… and Jackson Browne’s “Late for the Sky.”

On a less musical (but more useful) note, Dana Blankenhorn has some interesting stuff to say about Space Elevators.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Pythagoras. “It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]