What's In a Name?

The head of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is Richard E. Stickler. Unlike many of Mr. Bush's appointees, Mr. Stickler seems to have actual qualifications for his job, and not just his last name.

We're Back!

After a week of post-bar-exam relaxation in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, we're back. Many more photos will follow; here are two to get you started.

Hurry, to the storm shelter!

Is nothing safe?!

Dangerous Java flaw threatens virtually everything
By Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia
Friday, July 13 2007 04:01 PM

Huzzah!

Take me out to the ballgame...

Last Friday night Erica and I went to the game with Katie, Hilary, Cindy and Lydia. It was the first game of the Giants series and the energy in Fenway was fantastic, the crowd unified in their distaste for Barry. The Sox pounded the Giants; by the middle of the game it was locked up and we ended up watching the second half with the girls in the right-field grandstand, where the folks around you aren't quite as uptight as they are in our seats. Erica got some great photos, see if you can figure out the theme.

Home

I realized today that I never downloaded photos from the last few days of our trip. Here's Erica in Memphis.





Nothing interesting happened between Memphis and Cambridge, so here's Erica arriving at home!

Higher Learning

While riding home from work on the T today I spotted an ad for Suffolk University with the tagline "No goal is insurmountable if you take the right route". I considered pulling out a pen and replacing "insurmountable" with "unattainable", but I didn't have a sharpie, and it seemed like overkill. Still, a university should know better. Not saying a lot about themselves, are they?

Fast forward a few hours: on the way home from Shrek the Third, Erica pointed over my shoulder and said "do you agree with the edits to that ad"? Someone else had pulled out their pen and done what I had failed to do, with the annotation "to surmount is to climb over". My thoughts exactly.