Last night I patronized Fast Eddy's Chop Shop. Rocky gave me a pretty good haircut. I'll go back.
The PD has a review also.
In an effort to psych myself up for the remaining 18 or so months here.
In no particular order:
10. Good college radio stations; WCLV classical radio
9. Great Art Museum and Symphony
8. Low low cost of living
7. Cheap seats at Jacob's Field; several nearby minor league teams
6. Hopkins airport is a Continental hub
5. Free talks at the Natural History Museum
4. Case Film Society and The Cleveland Cinematheque
3. The West Side Market
2. Lots of snow!
1. Two for one burger night at McNulty's Pub
Safe Personal Computing.
Bruce Schneier, has a new article on his blog in which he gives home users concrete actions they could take to improve security. As the holidays come and I make the rounds to disinfect and repair all my family's computers, I'll be printing this out and sticking copies to their monitors.
I bet I'm not the only one who is called upon for tech support at the inlaw's on Christmas morning. The suggestions in his article are excellent. Additionally, I have a USB thumbdrive, before I visit a relative's house where I expect to make a support call I make sure I have loaded: Spybot, Stinger, Ad-Aware, Firefox, AVG, and the Zone Alarm firewall. All of these are free for personal use. I hide IE and set Firefox for default. I make sure Automatic Updates are enabled. If they have broadband, I take them to the store and buy the cheapest NAT router available.
Guide to Determine If You Are in a Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.
Last night I heard a lecture by Dr Stacy McGaugh at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The talk was titled Light in the Darkness: The Role of Mass, Energy and Gravity in Modern Cosmology. I doubt I could describe it better than they:
"We live in a vast, expanding Universe full of luminous wonders like stars, galaxies and quasars. These beacons of light are thought to be but a small part of a cosmos dominated by dark matter and dark energy. Stacy McGaugh describes why we think these invisible components are necessary, and examines the possibility that they may instead point to the need to extend Einstein's theory of gravity."
It was enjoyable to hear that there is still contention and disagreement in cosmology. I also enjoyed all the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons.
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Our book club selection)
(re-reading) Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling