08 August 2008   Cardio   The proposal that was crushing us at the office is done, the pricing complete. It is a nice piece of work, and I am confident it is as good as we can get it.   It was a bitch to move forward, since there were a lot of moving […]

Ah, Thursday. It has an imperative all its own, though this day is ruled by what has been, and concluded, rather than as a launch pad into a desultory Friday and the weekend. What does one do on an August weekend, except pray for the sun, and count the diminishing number of summer days in which […]

  I was in the dental chair late yesterday. Perfect place to be in the summer swelter, and a late appointment, so all the emergencies of the day were there waiting for some spare time to fill in.   Ann is a plump blonde dental tech- a woman of a certain age, if you will, […]

Economist Pa ul Krugman was not down at the pool yesterday, though he should have been. He would have liked it.  The humidity was down, there was a mild breeze and the rays of the sun were warm and inviting, not scorching, and the water was cool and refreshing. I had been downtown, to the […]

  I’m getting a late start this morning. Not my fault, of course. I blame it on the New York Times. First, there was the news about the commercial rocket failure that destroyed three light-weight satellites. Growing pains in the launch program, I assume, and a predictable risk. Still, there was more. =0 A Along […]

  It is “seasonally appropriate” here in DC, which is to say it is tolerable, transitioning to miserable in the long afternoon of a long working week. We should all be at the shore, or someplace other than in the moist heat. The gas prices are keeping us pinned down, hopeful that the air conditioning […]

The scariest company you have never heard of just leapt past Nortel Networks and Motorola to become Number 4 in the global telecom hardware market.   I don’t mean to imply that the Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. i s a direct and imminent threat to the national security of the United States of America. That […]

Golden Fish in black, March 1987, briefly underway   I feel bad for Senator Stevens this morning. The former Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee is under indictment on seven counts of hanky-panky. The longest-serving Republican Senator was someone we had to deal with in the Navy back in the days of the C old […]

I am with Lewis Carroll this morning, and have had to believe two impossible things before breakfast. Well, I mean, I didn’t have to.   That is like the global warming thing, which would be three, and the outsized carbon footprint that the common wisdom has attached to us. That would be four, and altogether too many. […]

Windy City Ugh. New week dawning and I am not quite back in the ballgame, so to speak. Baseball overdose, possibly. It was fun, though. Wrigley Field is the last of a whole generation of ballparks, a stadium that is not a gigantic concrete island surrounded by acres of black asphalt parking lots at a junction […]