Rick KeirRick Keir - LiveJournal.comBriefs (of the non-boxer-or-brief sort)- June 30, 2008 Two good books this week. The first is The Billionaire's Vinegar, about the 20 year history of the Thomas Jefferson bottle of wine which sold at auction for over $150,000, and the lawsuits and fraud charges that followed. Sound a bit rarefied to be entertaining Consider taht Will Smith is part of the consortium that bought the movie rights to the book (HBO bought the movie rights for the New Yorker article I link to, above).The second is Defining the Wind, which feels like a long, friendly New..http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/141845.html an observation: it's two shirt season- June 25, 2008 Once again, we've hit summer, and I have two shirts hanging behind my office door. One is the one I wore in this morning, which was a bit sweaty by the time I arrived, and which I'll put back on when I leave. One is the one I carried in, which is hanging there for when I arrive tomorrow. There's also an empty hanger, where the shirt I'm actually wearing was hanging when I arrived and changed into it.This is preferable to the season we just left, which was "two pairs of socks and shoes season".http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/141724.html If I have any more fun I'll be dead- June 22, 2008 I'm spending a long weekend down at Mom's, as my sister and her family are in town from California. I drove down on Thursday night. They came over from their hotel late in the morning on Friday, and I played with my younger niece (7) and nephew (3) all day. I'd bought them bubble wands, and my nephew took his (a sort of foot long test tube full of soap, with a long skinny bubble wand that screws into the top) and promptly proclaimed it "my sword", and began hacking the air with it. Quickly,...http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/141321.html Beware a man in a room- June 4, 2008 Just got done working with my colleague Peter on a plan for some IT security brown bag talks. I was reminded, once again, of why it's often better to work in at least a pair. In our talk, we came up with outline for an entire talk we could add to the series, just while wrestling with an announcement email, plus an idea for how to reach a whole segment of campus based on personal contacts that exist within our group. A book on managing programmers once offered the maxim "Beware a man in a room",.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/141066.html |