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After the largest private discrimination suit was filed against Walmart last year, and the “Two our of two ain’t bad” story, now we find out that Walmart has been linking movies such as “Planet of the Apes” to African-American themed … Continue reading →

Christmas Eve, my father and I participated in the only “Christian” tradition our family chose to assimilate into: luminaries. I think my parents made this decision years ago to avoid seeing the following in the January Camelot Newsletter: “The streets … Continue reading →

Ah, vacation time. The classes part of my first term at Princeton finished last week: I’ve got one final to study for and two term papers to write by the week of January 23rd. I’ve been seriously procrastinating on my … Continue reading →

A sad day: rest in peace, Leo.

I’ve resurfaced from the last week of classes here at Princeton to attend to my poor, neglected blog. I was so buried under work that I didn’t even notice a (now-corrected) typo on the title of the top entry. I … Continue reading →

Truly fitting that, as WaPo reports, Mr Smoot himself actually works at the American National Standards Institute. Though I guess NIST would be slightly more apropos. LOTD: ‘Nother neat article: New York project hits wall. Really old wall.

Not much to report on the last week. Sunday I went into the city for a swing workshop (Chicklet was kind enough to let me park at SLC and drive me in). The instructors were Yuval and Nathalie: as usual … Continue reading →

Forgot one cool part of my Thanksgiving: I finally got to see my uncle’s Christmas tree farm. It has been tucked away in a mostly inaccessible part of the camp grounds for about five years now. We took a short … Continue reading →

I traveled to Maine for Thanksgiving (much of my father’s side has migrated up north since the Strausses bought Camp Wigwam in ’65). The roud-trip cost be less than $100, as I took NJT, the Chinatown bus (which did not … Continue reading →

Making something with frozen blueberries this Thanksgiving? Here’s a trick I learned when making blueberry cobbler for West Wing last Sunday. When thawing the frozen blueberries, use a collander to hold the blueberries and catch the juice that the blueberries … Continue reading →