And yet, I’m easily cheered up

I’m going to miss Futurama when it disappears once and for all. Tonight’s episode points out why. There’s no other show on television that manages to combine physics and comedy so well. Tonight’s  [more...]

In the last years of the 1880s, San Jose built a huge light tower straddling an intersection downtown. It was meant to light up the downtown area, but was never very good and ended up in a heap during a wind storm in  [more...]

My dear friend Sara is playing a grown-ups concert tonight in Austin, and the late show will be broadcast live on radio and the internet! I tried to figure out a way to be there, but I have so much last minute  [more...]