Author: Aaron Weber

Portability

My friend Keith had this sore shoulder and got tired of lugging around his laptop and wondered, just how small can this stuff get and still be worthwhile? And so Padpaw got started. This isn’t just a “tiny laptop” project– it’s “what kinds of web services can be added to a tiny laptop to make it much cheaper and much more powerful?”

Hypocrites

Robertson says Muslims shouldn’t be judges and also claims that God doesn’t directly cause tsunamis. Now, he earlier said that God would send hurricanes to Florida if they allowed gay parents to adopt. So… that was an idle threat, I guess? Yes, yes it was.

Also, left-wing media alert: Focus on the Family can get ad time, but gay-friendly churches cannot. Focus on the Family is basically a hate group, and they can get an ad on TV promoting their twisted child-rearing philosophy, while the United Church of Christ can’t get an ad out saying “all are welcome at our church?”

Yay, humanity.

College Jokes

Harvard University is in the news again, and again, and again. Today’s WSJ article on Harvard was written by a graduate of my own Haverford, who closes the article noting that in a Wall Street job interview, the interviewer began by looking at his educational record and saying “”Well, if you read it quickly enough, it looks like it says Harvard.”

Of course, being confused with Harvard isn’t such a bad thing. A friend of mine, Spanish, was at a party when he referred to a friend of his at Yale. Of course, with a Spanish accent on the Y, it sounded like “jail.” Confused by the negative reaction, he insisted: “No, jail is a very good school!” Presumably one studies in the School of Hard Knocks.

Devote your life to cheese

Diana Pittet, now working on a dissertation about American cheddars at New York University, quit teaching Latin to work at Neal’s Yard Dairy, London’s foremost cheese store. Lori van Handel was a full-time art conservator in Williamstown, Mass., who became a freelance to free up time to take cheese classes in Manhattan and Vermont.

Now, I dare you to tell me that there are no great American cheeses, or that there is no cheese culture here. I dare you!