A pretty rough weekend. If you want to read my take on it, here it is, but it probably won’t help you have a Happy Valentine’s Day.
The bright spot in the weekend was Mark’s Housewarming, but neither that, nor the start of NASCAR season could tip the scales. Sorry this isn’t cheerier. That’s how life’s been lately.
- People Falling in Love in Three Minutes or Less (i.e. Speed Dating) seem to make choices that don’t necessarily match what they say they want, but that might just be the result of not over-analysing things. [doc]
- Hey! You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention, in spite of the 23 different things that are trying to distract you. I find that when I’m deep into a hard problem, I shut down just about everything but the one thing I’m working on. But normally, I’ve got the email client polling the server, a web-browser in the background, and a scheduling program that reminds me that I need to water the plants just as I’m trying to put a thought together. Yeah, it’s easy to get distracted. [kottke]
- Descendents of the original brewers were Lifting a glass to Schmidt Brewery on Saturday. The Brewery goes up for sale this Friday, and they and the city are hoping whoever buys it will keep the historic parts intact. [press-patch]
- Ron Paul says that HR418 is A National ID Bill Masquerading as Immigration Reform and goes on to explain all the things that are wrong with it. Hopefully the Senate will be the more deliberative body and shoot this thing down, but I expect another stampede as there was on USA-PATRIOT. [endwar]
- The Register has an interesting Interview with a link spammer. The link-spammers are one of the reasons I haven’t bothered to write commenting software for here. There’s plenty of hassles in life lately, and adding one more just doesn’t seem like a recipe for happiness.