Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Back home

Arrived home around 6:30 p.m. I immediately turned around and headed over to Monstermutt to pick up Frisket. Frisket made it quite clear with whirring, whooing and some shoving that I'm not supposed to go away for multiple weeks again.

Given that I woke up around 2100 GMT on Monday night and barely slept on the flight home, I'm surprisingly awake (perhaps three Code Reds for dinner helped). Am watching the Sox beat the Astros in apparently the longest World Series game on record.

I have to fly 253 miles to requalify for AA Platinum status for next year. I toyed with flying to Austin to check in on my brother's new house but that's not exactly a one-day trip. Lisa has suggested flying to Boston and back while American is engaged in a fare war with Jet Blue.

e.p.c. posted this at 07:08 GMT on 26-Oct-2005 from Brooklyn, NY.

Transcript of a speech by Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau about his surprising yet cordial relationship with the military.

e.p.c. posted this at 14:50 GMT on 26-Oct-2005 .

LibraryThing

Via Crooked Timber � � Small-World Affiliation Networks: LibraryThing, an online book catalogue for your personal library that uses tags like Flickr and del.icio.us.

e.p.c. posted this at 15:12 GMT on 26-Oct-2005 .

NORA Calling

Todd writes about non-obvious relationship awareness (NORA) and how it would have been extremely useful four years ago: Three Degrees of Separation: Jonas suggested it might have been possible to have identified the hijackers in advance, because they had clearly left evidence that they were in one another's orbit. Identity recognition has historically focused on creating a single 360 degree view of an individual, using data that is directly attributable to that individual.

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e.p.c. posted this at 18:03 GMT on 26-Oct-2005 .

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