Trip
SoCal. Photos here. Next up: Santa Barbara and then north up the windy coastal highway until we stop and turn back around.
Sun
Fred Clark: “I suppose one could also argue that the voluntary surrender of personal freedom in the hopes of attaining higher ‘property values’ is quintessentially American”.
Toothpaste
Carlos Villela has a great story about manufacturing toothpaste. Really.
Bonnie’s Graduation
Bonnie graduates college today!
Things kicked off yesterday afternoon with a quite wonderful service (which included an astonishing, inspirational, and thoroughly engaging sermon from Bishop Charleston) and garden party, complete with frilly hats, petits fours and little glasses of port.
Congratulations!
Whitburn
Andy Baio writes about the Whitburn Project. If you don’t appreciate how vastly chaotic and organized the Internet became while the rest of us were watching TV, try this for a taster.
MassTLC
Second Tuesday evening of each month, there’s a fun and informal get-together of the Mass Tech Leadership Council, at the Skellig Pub in Waltham.
I went along to the first of these and thoroughly enjoyed it. People had brought all sorts of things to play with and demo — several versions of the OLPC XO (and a JavaScript spreadsheet), some kind of roof-robot, and various web things. It was a fun and chattery gathering of interesting people from all over the Boston area. I couldn’t make last month’s, even though it would have been fun to compare the Linn thing with the Logitech thing.
So I’d recommend anyone with a passing interest to come along. I’ll probably talk in some depth about Mesh (unless the Cambridge people beat me to it).
Dad
Dad was buried today, in the churchyard at St Mary’s Ambleside — on surely the most beautiful spring day imaginable, surrounded by daffodils, looking over to Loughrigg. Many good people in attendance. I can’t write much, but want to at least record something of the day.
At the funeral Mass, Chris (my little bro!) gave a wonderful, funny, moving tribute to Dad. I still don’t know how he did it, but this set the tone for the service.
Here’s one of Dad’s pictures of the Langdale Pikes.
Links: a short writeup (x) and obituary (x) from the local newspapers.
Daniel remembers Bill F.
Daniel has an interesting life. And with that, many interesting people who love him deeply. Here’s his remembrance of William F. Buckley.
Tales from the Valley
Hard to believe that Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer were ejected by the Yahooligans. But read Randy’s Stone Soup parable, it’s a good one.
JK@ALI
Jen Kearney at Acoustic Long Island. Carl’s pretty hot on the guitar too. Catch her shows around the north shore.