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Monday, January 17, 2005
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QUIXOTE TURNS 400: "
 It would probably be considered Quixotic not to take note of the hype ballooning up around the quadricentennial of Cervantes' legendary knight. And so, herewith an early roundup:
* The Guardian - 'Literature's favourite knight errant turns 400'
* KASA - 'Four centuries of Quixote'
* Khaleej Times - 'Don Quixote at centre of literary golden age for Spain'
More on this one to come, for sure.
(Via The Elegant Variation.)
3:42:09 PM 
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After reading this review in the East Bay Express, Lyal and Richard and I went to Art's Crab Shak (sic) on Saturday. The review is pretty accurate in every way, and there's not a lot to add to it. We had a crab bucket for two, along with a plate of deep fried oysters and fries, plus some jalapeno poppers. The crab was terrific, swimming in a large platter of butter and mushrooms, seasoned with garlic and spices. (One might reasonably argue that cardboard would taste good sauteed in this stuff, and one would be right. Still, the crab was fantastic.) We were there fairly early on a Saturday afternoon, and didn't experience any slow service the review talks about. We got our meals quickly. If you have three good eaters, the meal we had was fine. If you don't get anything else, then do get crab in as many servings as you have people. The fries with the oysters came in handy for -- yes -- soaking up the last puddles of butter on the plate, the amount of bread they gave us wasn't quite adequate. If there's a better crab place around, I'd love to try it...
3:16:28 PM
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Ancient diet: " This article describes the diet of ancient humans and argues that it was far healthier than what we eat today.
They spent most of their days hunting and finding food. They ran or walked 5 to 10 miles each day. They lifted carcasses and skins filled with clean water to drink. If they wished to eat more food, they had to spend more energy getting it.
Their total cholesterol was 110 mg/dl; their LDL cholesterol was 50 mg/dl. Their blood pressure was 100/60. They were tall and lean. None of them had cardiovascular disease. Their arteries were free of atherosclerosis. They ate no refined grains or sugars, except for seasonal honey. They ate little, if any, salt. Half of their food intake was meat. The animals they hunted ate grass or leaves. The game meat contained 2-4 percent fat by weight and was high in omega-3 fatty acids.
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(Via Food is worse than crack.)
3:07:47 PM
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The New York Times prints a long CNET interview with Andy Hertzfeld about the early days of the Mac and his attitudes towards Apple now. I just finished reading his anecdotal book about the Mac's genesis. The book was lots of fun, and he did a good job of showing the personalities involved. I would have liked more solid information, not technical (I'm not interested in assembly statements that move memory around), but more on how certain decisions were made, and how user testing went. Still, it was a fun book.
I listened a bit of one of Andy's presentations about the the book the other day at Mac Expo, and talked with Andy for a few minutes after his talk, mostly about the new Dylan soundboards. He's as excited as I am and, told me how it came to be that these new boards -- something like 42 of them! -- came out. They're still coming, by the way, and still good.
The first time I saw the Mac was in December of 1983 or maybe early January of 84, at a sales presentation they gave to dealers. I remember Andy was there and some others, we were all under non-disclosure, and as an Apple fan (my first machine was a II Plus), I was pretty danged excited. I used to have all the materials from that presentation, but I "lent" them to MacWEEK 11 years ago, and never got them back.
1:18:25 PM
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