February 29, 2016

In the U.S., leap year coincides with presidential election years.

February 28, 2016

I will watch the Oscars tonight, I always do. Of course, if the Knick game is close, they get first dibs. I did see Mad Max: Fury Road and Bridge of Spies.



Received 20% off coupons and just ordered a free $25 Barnes and Noble gift card. The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness by David Gelernter looks interesting. He was a Unabomber victim. A deep thinker and mostly conservative, he is also an artist:

"Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones."
David Gelernter

February 27, 2016

Huayna Picchu from on the way to the Sun Gate,(Inti Punku.)



Hugh Griffith is one of the best in Tom Jones.

February 22, 2016

Happy Birthday George !



Watching the last season of The Good Wife,learned about NSA's Three-Hop policy on phone surveillance:

"According to declassified documents, the NSA operates under a rote legal procedure for querying domestic phone metadata. The agency begins by identifying a “seed” number, with reasonable and articulable suspicion of terrorist activity. Next, the NSA has discretion to follow up to three degrees of calling separation (“hops”.)The NSA is authorized to retrieve a complete set of phone records at each hop, and just one call in the past five years appears sufficient to make a hop."

February 21, 2016

Listen to Me Marlon on Showtime on demand was interesting. Budd Schulberg's 2007 piece in Vanity Fair puts the same perspective in writing.



Happened to be in Staten Island, a pepperoni pie from Nunzio's to go.



Indian Restaurant mixed grill.



When it gets cold the pigeons go indoors. Here, a garage.



Bob Dylan 1964 sounds a lot like Brando. The article is about the recording of the above album.



Just watched Capote to remember Harper Lee.

February 16, 2016

$17.50 win !



A Clockwork Orange was on demand. Still thought provoking and good.



My favorite reality series begins tomorrow: Survivor Kaôh Rōng. Again they feature Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty.

February 15, 2016

Happy President's Day ! Leftover Bloody Marys hit the spot.



Perfect score. Real easy answer.



Cake was good.