Cyrus Farivar

Well, a Happy Easter to all, and to all a good night. Or something like that. Sarmad and I hit up the H-town (read: Hartford) scene for a tasty weekend full of roast duck on Saturday and roast leg of lamb in stereo (read: two of them) today. Made some progress on the book front, but I had to wake up today at 6:45 am to do a phone interview. Missed the train connection in New Haven by mere minutes…

Courtesy Boing Boing, courtesy of the dude’s LJ : The way this all got started was that my friend and i were sitting around at dinner chatting about what to do for the upcoming room-to-room party. We went through a whole bunch of ideas for room themes. And then Ñ you know how, sometimes when you’re bored, you look up and imagine what it would be like if gravity turned upside down and you got to walk around on the…

Goddamn — the fourth movement of Tchaikovksy’s fifth symphony is totally punk rock. Also, good news to announce on the freelancing front pretty soon.

NYT : Beginning next Thursday, as part of a reorganization of technology news coverage, the weekly Circuits pages will appear in Business Day, with David Pogue’s column on the front page of that section. The Game Theory column will move to the Weekend section, beginning on April 8. The Online Shopper column will return on April 14 in a section to be introduced that day. Circuits will also appear several times a year as a special section, beginning with a…

Boston Globe, March 19 2005 : A New York-to-Boston bus burst into flames on the Massachusetts Turnpike early yesterday, sending spectacular flames into the sky and capping what two passengers said was a harrowing trip after the driver ignored problems with the vehicle and continued to Boston. Shitong Ou — the driver of the Travel Pack bus, based in Chinatown — pulled over before the toll booths in Allston-Brighton and ordered all passengers off. Seconds later, the vehicle burst into…

It’s supposed to be spring and it’s snowing outside. Boo.

Via Brad DeLong, via Think Progress, via Associated Press : George W. Bush, 10/29/04: Unfortunately Ð unfortunately, my opponent, tonight, continued to say things he knows are not true Ð accusing our military of passing up a chance to get Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora. As the Commander in charge of that operation, Tommy Franks had said, itÕs simply not the case. ItÕs the worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking. It is especially shameful in the light of a…

Intro: Last fall, after the last pitch was thrown, after the last ball was caught, after the lights shut off, Keyspan Park went silent for the winter. The home of the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team, the stadium looks from the edge of Coney Island in South Brooklyn, beyond right field to the Atlantic. The ballclub’s namesake, the Cyclone roller coaster, is visible on the other side of the left field wall. The players packed up and the fans…

WashPost on former Dodgers and Senators slugger Frank “Hondo” Howard: Former Senators shortstop Eddie Brinkman, Howard’s best friend and roommate on road trips, recalls the 15 feet of bald space where Howard paced in left field. “We had a lot of pop-ups between us,” says Brinkman, recalling the time he ran back tracking a shallow fly, expecting Howard to call him off. He kept going and still heard nothing. Finally he caught the ball five feet in front of Howard’s…

Exactly two months from today I will be back, permanently, in California.