We seriously just received an email that says, “I’ll call when you receive this.”

Slate Magazine has an article about Richard Nixon’s effort to dispel the public’s perception of him as “cold and crafty.” Among the many gems inside this treasure chest of history are RN’s examples of what a great, warm, caring fellow he actually is (”the calls that I make to people when they are sick, even though they no longer mean anything to anybody”). The letter is reproduced in some weird, difficult-to-access format in the article, but no worries, here’s a PDF of the original you can use.

Friend, uber-geek, all-around geniusboy, and former co-worker danjared stopped by a few days ago and showed me an “XO”, one of the eponymous Laptops that just got the green light for mass production as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. I hope you get the chance to see one of these some day, they’re pretty different from most computers: they run Linux, they don’t really have much of a desktop, they’re aware of other XO’s in the area, they have a sturdy FisherPrice child’s-toy ruggedness, they fold up for use as a laptop or as …

Ok, maybe not a 2-day weekend, maybe not even a 3-day, maybe you’ll even have to work on this over a series of frustrating weeks of little progress, false starts, and occasionally injurious mistakes, BUT I couldn’t think of a single reader of this weblog who wouldn’t jump at the chance to learn how to build their own 1700-gallon shark tank in their basement. Next entry: schematics for shark-head-mounted frickin’ laser beams.

Last night I had a dream that I checked Thornography and saw that my last update had been in March. This got me to wondering, so I checked the date of the last actual forrealz entry, and…. Whoa, June. Ok, so that’s lame. But the good news is that it’s just been because all kinds of opportunities have been hurtling my way. I have been a 4 teragauss magnet in the thumbtack factory of opportunity, you might say. Can’t disclose much at this time, but maybe I’ll casually mention that a new website, completely unrelated to …