Monthly Archives: July 2007

If you really want to know the answer to that question, you’ll have to go to NECON next week. That’s the title of the panel I’m moderating on Saturday morning, and you’ll hear the straight poop from Matt Schwartz, Kelli … Continue reading →

For the past few days I’ve been transcribing a telephone interview I conducted earlier in the week. Painstaking work, to say the least. I’ve gone through the fifty minutes of recording a few times to make sure I have the … Continue reading →

Hey, it’s practically a drought. Two days in a row without rain. Start the sprinklers! Call out the fire department. Panic, mayhem, disaster. Oh, wait—it’s supposed to rain tomorrow. Alert cancelled. The Closer was really good last night. Very smart … Continue reading →

We had occasional rain over the weekend, but nothing nearly like the previous days. We’re not out of the soggy woods yet. In nine days we have 3″ more than average rainfall or four times average as much, depending on … Continue reading →

I almost forgot that Big Brother 8 debuted last night. The show is one of my guilty pleasures. Even more than Survivor you get to see scheming and plotting vicariously. The twist this year is that there are three pairs … Continue reading →

It rained early in the day yesterday, but cleared up enough for local fireworks. We didn’t go out to watch any of them, but heard them start around 9 pm. One good thing about all the rain—and it continues unabated … Continue reading →

A few years ago, I remember how worried we were that an errant rocket from our neighbors’ illicit fireworks launch would land on our roof and set the house on fire. No such concerns this year. The biggest risk in … Continue reading →

It’s raining again today, if anything more copiously than last month. The next two or three days are supposed to be soggy. We don’t have to worry about fires from pyrotechnics on Wednesday, but we should be concerned that people … Continue reading →