- The surprising geopolitics of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope (Sandro Magister, Chiesa) Eh, what he really needs to do is write $elf-help books!
- Questions for Charles Murray (Interviewed by Deborah Solomon, NY Times)
- Leadership (Robert Cringely, PBS.org) I wonder how long it would take for HR to pull this off the coffeebar bulletin board in our non-fractal shop?
- Cancer stem cells: The root of all evil? (Economist)
- Shooting down cancer (Economist)
- Lehman
Month: September 2008
Continental Airlines today backtracked on one of several recently announced changes that had been widely denounced. Here’s the email I got today:
Earlier this month, we announced that
(Above: Grilling and chilling at the townhouse community)
Slightly more than half of Houstonians have power now. We’ve had it for several days. More stores and restaurants are open. Life is slowly getting back to normal.
It’s been a pretty wild week, to say the least. Mostly, it’s been full of a lot of good Houstonians helping each other out and making the
There is still no power at the Casa de Kev and Callie, even though some Centerpoint guys gave us a little hope yesterday while checking lines (but apparently they were overly optimistic).
I’m in our office today, which only suffered minimal/cosmetic damage. All systems are fine, power is on, internet is at full speed, etc., so it’s nice to catch up on a little reading and check in on colleagues. Our plant manager brought in a waffle maker for us,
Our power was restored a few hours ago.
A nice Centerpoint linesman who chatted with Callie earlier apparently felt sorry for us, and decided to bypass the line that was causing our power to be out. It didn’t help folks still dependent on that branch line, but it did help quite a few homes on this side of it.
One more night of sleeping with windows open is in order, though. This weather is so nice. Here’s hoping it holds