this is a land of mystery and wonder
Yes, I know what The Office is, but I avoided it because it was a British transplant and it was all about the awkward office interactions, and I can’t stand that, and it was getting cancelled anyway, until it apparently didn’t.
Saw two episodes, by happenstance, in the past two days. (Um, thanks Hulu beta?) Loving it. And it’s the first show I’m picking up in a while for which watching it out of order doesn’t feel like a cardinal sin.
Plus, dropping Bionic Woman frees up a spot. 
It is never very safe to be a whistleblower when dealing with the typically incompetent federal government, but here is yet another reason to run far, far away.
The Globe & Mail to the north tells us that the massive California wildfires, or at least the damage they are inflicting, is the result of Western migration and overpopulation, the excesses of the Hollywood rich, the stupidity of people who refuse to evacuate, and also global warming. You know what, the folks at the Globe & Mail are fucking idiots.
FEMA is ready to step in and provide support. Oh, great. How about they just sit this one out.
For those in San Diego, this Google Maps mashup by KPBS shows fires, evacuation alerts, shelters, and the like.
I am so antsy about the upcoming Mac OS X release. I’ve been awaiting it for several months now and using it as an excuse to not gut and reinstall my computer, but now the instability and unreliability is unbearable, and Leopard comes out this Friday.
In other news, I’m kicking myself because this weekend I decided to clear out my stocks from TD Ameritrade and consolidate the money in Bank of America, which meant putting in orders to sell all my stocks there this morning at opening of market. And then Apple went up $4. And then after hours they announced record earnings and went up another $11. Apparently I should have read the news about the next day’s earnings report. Damn. That would have been enough to buy a couple copies of Leopard. Or a few nice meals.
To the Editor:
This week another Editor in Chief of the Justice published another editorial justifying that paper’s decision to publish yet more potentially damaging information about students. It is perhaps telling that the Justice feels the need, every year or so, to passionately defend these decisions.
Arrests, controversial events, and statements made in anger are often newsworthy. And in a small, tight-knit community like Brandeis, people generally know the names of the people behind the headlines. But it is wrong for one student to decide that one bad decision or mistake by another should haunt that person for the rest of their life.
The first editorial ever published in the Hoot said it best: “We shall not be intimidated by controversy, but neither shall we sink to the level of merely titillating our readership; our mission is to inform, to bring meaningful content into readers’ lives. We are here for our readers, not for our resumes.”
I am proud to look upon a community newspaper that has flourished since I helped to found it in 2005. I am disappointed, but not surprised, to see that while the Hoot has stayed true to its mission, so has the Justice stayed true to its painful and counterproductive goal of putting notions of “journalistic integrity” ahead of the community it serves.
Daniel Silverman ‘05
Founding Editor, The Brandeis Hoot
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I'm Danny Silverman, a guy in Cambridge, MA with an interest in law, culture, media, and using technology to bring people together even as we work ever harder to push ourselves apart.
My day job is maintaining computer systems. I like exploring the outdoors. I catch and throw flying discs for sport. My cat is fuzzy.
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