Saturday, March 20, 2004

Happy birthday to the highly useful Command Post. 5:31:03 PM    comment []

Sean Gallagher on the grim world of tech weeklies: "InfoWorld looks like roadkill. And eWeek is not looking too healthy, either...ComputerWorld is..a vampire sucking the life out of InfoWorld." 5:13:14 PM    comment []

Orcinus picks up on the Billy Yow story: "Yow's racial bias couldn't be any clearer -- and his wink-and-nudge act isn't fooling anyone." Gee, it's great when our county commissioners get national attention. It does us all kinds of good. Hoggard on Yow and his sparring partner, Skip Alston: "It seems that we in Guilford County just think that we can play racial politics with total abandon and to hell with the consequences like... say... civilized folks actually wanting to move here." He quotes a conservative friend: "They are two big reasons why Greensboro will not, in the forseeable future, attract the kind of high-paying jobs that are going to Charlotte & Raleigh." 4:52:15 PM    comment []

Dahlia Lithwick on the bizarre gut-the-Constitution bill co-sponsored by Howard Coble: "(O)ne of the dumbest ideas ever...an unconstitutional bill that doesn't purport to redress the wrongs it decries...a silly little piece of shucking and jiving to polarize voters." 10:27:35 AM    comment []

The problem with Carolina: "(O)n the eve of meeting Texas on Saturday in the second round of this year's tournament, Tar Heels' junior swingman Jackie Manuel all but said that he and his teammates couldn't have cared less about what their new coach had to tell them." 9:56:58 AM    comment []

Home. Spring showed up while we were gone -- the Bradford Pears are in bloom, the dogwoods in our backyard are budding. It was an easy trip back to GSO, other than the fact that Elijah picked up a stomach bug and puked the whole way. He got very good at aiming into that little barf bag. Sydney and I watched Lost in Translation and afterwards she found Uncle John's Band playing on the Delta in-flight program, which led into Touch of Grey -- the mediocre studio version, but still, not bad for Delta -- which made me think of listening to a much-better bootleg version of that song on a walkman on a subway in New York when my dad was dying, and I was happy and sad at the same time, and I leaned over to give Syd the three-finger Jerry Garcia salute across the aisle and her prostrate brother, and when we landed in Atlanta we plopped Elijah in a wheelchair and rolled him to the next gate, where we saw friends from home who noted that when most people pick up color in their faces on a ski trip that color is not green, and Greensboro looked enormous from the air on a clear night, and we picked up Luna on the way home, and when I checked my email the nice lady from Wisconsin with whom we rolled in the snow by the hot tub in Snowmass had sent a picture of that event as promised, and this morning Luna jumped on the bed and licked my face and Elijah ate some dry toast and I guess we'll watch some basketball today. 9:53:56 AM    comment []