What’s the French for Encore?
One of the events in Boston every summer is the Bastille Day party at the French Library. We’d always heard that it was great fun. They close off part of Marlborough street and have...
Author: Mike Garrity
Socialized Medicine
Steve Silberman was in London on business when he got sick. You should read his story about what happened next.
UCSD Pascal
This month’s IEEE Spectrum has a cute article about UCSD Pascal and how it influenced Java. I used UCSD Pascal at my first job out of college. We were doing stress analysis with ADLPipe...
Sugarloaves
On Saturday, we climbed Middle & North Sugarloaf in the White Mountains. The weather was great (much better than the same day last year). These are easy hikes, although the end of Middle Sugarloaf...
Photoshopping Fireworks
Grumping about what the national TV broadcast has done the the 4th of July Pops concert has become a family hobby in recent years. This year they really outdid themselves by cutting away to...
Greetings to my Parental Units
Tom’s in New Zealand for a couple of weeks. We asked him to stay in touch, but weren’t really expecting much. Yesterday, this came: Sounds like he’s adjusting quite well.
More Glass
Pete finished his glassblowing class. Today he brought home the rest of the things he made in class. Here are pictures of some of them: I like the variety of different techniques they taught...
Extreme Sailing
The Extreme Sailing Series is racing in Boston this weekend. We went down to watch them yesterday. There were three types of boats racing. Courageous Sailing had a bunch of kids out there in...
