Blog Master G

The 31st in the series of state quarters will be those of the Golden State, my homeland: California. Voting for your favorite design has begun. (This page shows bigger images of all the quarters.) My favorites, in order, are 20, 9, 3, and 1. I also like 17 and 11. I just cast my vote […]

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North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il issued a statement today that his country is going to pull out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). From the Reuters story: Fleischer said Bush stressed in a telephone call with Jiang that “the United States has no hostile intentions toward North Korea, and sought a peaceful, multilateral solution […]

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In Monday’s press briefing by Ari Fleischer, it’s good to read that he got drilled hard on Iraq by Helen Thomas. You go, Helen!

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Marin is flooding. It’s been coming down really hard all day today. It’s nuts out there! The skiing will rule.

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Mark Shields has an excellent commentary today on CNN.com that proves just how big an idiot Trent Lott really is. Speaking of the moron himself, this faux holiday greeting from the Lott family is pretty funny.

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I certainly don’t miss my daily commute across the Bay Bridge, especially with the addition of the latest obstacle in the madness of a Bay Area commute: metal plates on the bridge. They certainly caught me off guard last night as Jen and I drove into the city for dinner at Buca, but it wasn’t […]

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Jen and I were just talking last night about a new indoor smoking ban in New York City that Mayor Bloomberg signed into law (finally, NYC catches up with what California has been doing for 4 years). The cool thing is that I just learned this morning that my friend Dan is partially responsible for […]

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This quote from new GN’R bassist Tommy Stinson on why the band cancelled its shows over the weekend and tonight is great: “No one’s ever done this before. No one’s ever…Like, the lead singer’s never taken the name and continued on with an entirely new band successfully in history. So it sounded like, the whole […]

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Flemming Funch put up this post yesterday with the latest on the IAO. He also provides a link to a great article in SF Weekly by Matt Smith, who encourages Californians to call the home of the criminal who’s running the new federal agency, and to ask him lots of questions about privacy (I think […]

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Looking for the ideal way to tie your shoes? Look no further. Using combinatorial mathematics, often used to calculate resource allocation, our Aussie friend Burkard Polster has determined the most efficient way to tie your shoes. This is huge. We’re not just talking about 1 in a million, baby. We’re talking 1 in 400 million. […]

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