You are looking at posts that were written in the month of June in the year 2003.
Posted on June 27th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: international.
I was at Hanscom today, listening to an air force 3-star talk generally to the public about his recent experiences as a key CIA - DOD liaison, and was suddenly reminded of two things:
There’s a lovely analogy to be made between open scientific dialogue, open source software, and high-stakes secrecy, but I’m too sun-touched to make it right now.
Posted on June 26th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Arlington’s beloved Paul Schlichtman writes:
I had to go to Malden yesterday, and faced with the depressing task of dealing with the agenda of the School Committee Budget Subcommittee, I decided (in the spirit of prior suggestions surrounding Jim Marzilli’s coupons) that the total lack of fat and sweetness in the school budget required some sort of counteraction. After about 30 minutes in a line that can only be described as a party environment, I got two dozen KK doughnuts and the subsequent school committee deliberations were a little less grim.
They pulled a doughnut right off the line as you approached the order takers. It was hot, sweet, wonderful, everything I remembered from last year’s California KK visit. The one leftover doughnut that made its way home last night had about 20 seconds in the microwave before eating, brought back that hot and fluffy feel.
I must point out that in most microwaves, 20 seconds is *far* too long to reheat a glazed KK donut. 8 or 10s on high is just right.
Posted on June 23rd, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Another (here’s the last one) ancient civs update from fair Harvard: deciphering Inca khipu. Harvard anthro is wicked cool. I don’t want to wait for a book to come out with details, I want to track Urton down…
Posted on June 23rd, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
I was at MacLean Hospital last week, and they have a magnificent campus for inpatient mental health… my goodness. The funding crunch taking place within their glorious buildings on their beautiful property seemed wildly out of place. But I want to talk about the way asylums deal with communication barriers, over time and without the obstacles of rancor or the possibility of misunderstandings being (depending on the context) considered active/intentional/partisan.
Posted on June 23rd, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
We interrupt this ongoing broadcast to remind you of the Medford KK grand opening tomorrow morning at 05:30 hrs. Yours truly will be there well before that, getting in some reading. Look for me if you come out for the fun.
Posted on June 22nd, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Well, I’ve clearly been futzing around too much with this blog today. TLN no longer shows up on the Berkman hosted-blog list. Maybe someone was put out by my name change and the recent activity? Afraid of uni-longevity? Upset with my characterizations of our presidential non-candidates? [Monday update: still invisible] Now you’ll have to remember the URL.
Anyway, it’s definitely a sign to get outside, rain and all. As a kid in Houston I was scared of RUSes on days like today, but here I think it’s safe. I’ve been avoiding the real work I have to do, and my connection’s been flaky… let’s hope for a nice WiFi-enabled bookstore to spend the afternoon.
If you’re looking for actual content, try the newly-updated stories, or the fleshed-out Clark info.
Posted on June 22nd, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Ancient chinese wisdom holds with the extreme importance of names. Modern propagandists would agree, if with less enthusiasm… political candidates sometimes rename themselves for this reason. I always have trouble naming images, sites, books; most of the names I have for private items aren’t words at all — perhaps I haven’t the poetry to create the overlapping meanings I want from everyday phrases. In any case, Dave refuses to pronounce Omnipresent Longevity and I’m left contemplating names again. For now. [speaking of which, there’s an old caption contest that was never resolved…]
Posted on June 22nd, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: null.
Oh, how I’d like to be rain on this parade.
And yet another reason why Mary reminds Donna she loves James.
Posted on June 21st, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: popular demand.
I should have seen it coming — the top two undeclared candidates quietly joining forces. It was staring straight out at me from Clark’s WaveCrest bio:
Gen. Clark is Chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a business services and development firm based in Little Rock, Ark.
Anyway, Clark was at Hillary’s book-signing two nights ago, got a book signed, and set up a rival greeting line. Bill Kristol knew the score almost a year ago.
But what if they put Clark at the top of the ticket, with Hillary as VP? This may be the more prudent option. After all, what self-respecting Republican would vote Hillary for President? Here’s the updated rundown on Clark.
Posted on June 21st, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
There was dancing in the Cambridge streets yesterday night. (Mass Ave, in fact, in front of Cambridge City Hall.) Wow! People of all ages; kids running everywhere; the kind of unspoiled cross-generational fun cities do best. There were 20-somethings breakdancing on the grass in front of city hall, kids running everywhere, people from the senior center across the street boogieing to ’50s songs… and a great selection of music from decades past.
With a little more effort (this event was amazingly under-advertised and -reported), a live band and better light-techs – perhaps even extending an invitation to and sharing costs with a few surrounding townships – they could easily extend the social diversity to match the age diversity, cordon off a couple more blocks of Mass Ave (they didn’t use half of the blocks they *did* cordon off), and make this yearly event a night of city-wide excitement on a scale normally found only in, say, New Orleans.