Going to extremes

Cecily Adams, the actress who played Quark’s mother Ishka a.k.a. Moogie on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has died, her husband reported. Jim Beaver [reported] that Adams, the 39-year-old daughter of Get Smart star  [more...]

Every time I’d been up to Palo Alto, it seemed like a tiny hamlet with little to do and nothing to see. I kept looking for a mall, a theatre, anything at all to make it seem like another city. Finally, last night  [more...]

I just took a few minutes to look at what I blogged a year ago in this space, and was struck by two things: first, there was some big stuff happening in February 2003: the Columbia disaster, the death of Mr. Rogers, a  [more...]