http://www.christakos.com/ Technology, Travel, Music, and general attempts at keeping track of interesting things I come across en-us Copyright 2008 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:57:16 -0500 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:00:21 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I was too busy celebrating yesterday to post, but even though I'm a day late, it bears remembering what July 4th is all about:... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/07/happy_fourth_of.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/07/happy_fourth_of.html Misc Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:57:16 -0500 Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now. - New York Times columnist and neoconservative pundit Bill Kristol, December 17, 2006... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/06/ahem.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/06/ahem.html Politics Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:25:15 -0500 I first became acquainted with the Eurovision song contest while I was in Greece in May 2006. Astute readers will remember the winner being Lordi's Hard Rock Hallelujah which I described as a "Finnish ... Spinal Tap revival band." Unfortunately,... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/eurovision_2008.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/eurovision_2008.html Music Sun, 25 May 2008 18:58:32 -0500 The author of the blog Stuff White People Like seems to have run into me on a bad day and decided to hit at me personally. At least, he must have, because entry 99 is dedicated to grammar:White people love... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/things_to_keep.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/things_to_keep.html Reading Sat, 17 May 2008 22:36:40 -0500 Via the comments of Ezra Klein's weblog: an amazing proportion of New Yorker cartoons are improved if you replace the caption with "Geez, what an a-hole."Check out some cartoons and see that it works!... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/deep_thoughts_i.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/deep_thoughts_i.html Reading Wed, 07 May 2008 22:46:50 -0500 Lately I just haven't felt like posting much and haven't had much material to post about, anyway. However, while I was at MIT over the weekend, a guy I know sought me out and told me how much he liked... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/dropped_off_the.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/05/dropped_off_the.html Misc Mon, 05 May 2008 19:16:44 -0500 For this kind of stomach-churning comfort food and more, see The Company Cookbook and a compendium of old-school Weight Watchers recipe cards.... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/04/recipes_of_the.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/04/recipes_of_the.html Food Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:39:59 -0500 One of the books in my queue is humorist PJ O'Rourke's On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World) . On that note, I think Adam Smith had a pretty good insight here:The ordinary expense of the greater... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/03/adam_smith_on_w.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/03/adam_smith_on_w.html Politics Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:57:20 -0500 This conversation occurred a couple of years ago over brunch with a friend of mine: Me: So I wanted to get these posters framed at the framing store in Cambridgeport, but they wanted something like $200 for each one! So... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/on_negotiation.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/on_negotiation.html Misc Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:11:32 -0500 One of my favorite features from Marvel Comics is their What If? series. This past month, Marvel released a What If? issue based on one of my favorite comics, the late-80s "Spiderman vs. Wolverine". This was a truly great... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/i_detect_some_p.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/i_detect_some_p.html Reading Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:52:05 -0500 I said I wasn't going to make any more political posts until Super Tuesday, and now Super Tuesday has come and gone, so here we are. There was no big blowout on either side. Obama didn't make the knockout... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/my_super_tuesda.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/my_super_tuesda.html Politics Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:45:50 -0500 I'll have plenty of insightful comments about Super Tuesday after the polls close in California. Seriously, though, I thought the era of hotly contested primaries that lasted into March were over, but apparently not. Anyway, I just wanted to highlight... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/lets_see_that_p.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/lets_see_that_p.html Sports Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:39:43 -0500 It would probably run afoul of the broadcast terms and be illegal for me to blog about what was happening during the Super Bowl as it happened. However, I will say that I enjoy seeing Boston sports fans suffer. 10:03pm... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/legal_fun_fact.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/02/legal_fun_fact.html Sports Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:09:14 -0500 So, I saw the movie Cloverfield tonight. Sort of like Godzilla but with the cast of The OC. This review, which was written before the reviewers had ever seen the movie, was stunningly accurate:how much you enjoy Cloverfield will probably... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/01/i_see_cloverfie.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/01/i_see_cloverfie.html Movies Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:55:49 -0500 This was the best Nike ad, ever, in the history of Nike ads, which came out in late 1999:... http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/01/remembrances_of.html http://www.christakos.com/archives/2008/01/remembrances_of.html Humor Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:00:17 -0500