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The past week has been dizzying, not the least because I had (have) one of those nasty colds, which is down to an annoying cough. My brother went off to San Francisco to make his fortune. P– and I have been making random progress with our Japan/Taiwan trip in March. We’re emailing to Taiwan, skyping [...]

Hope you’re all having a nice V-day. NY Times article: “Between Truth and Lies, An Unprintable Ubiquity,” by Peter Edidin – profiles the story of Harry G. Frankfurter, a Princeton philosophy professor, and his essay. “On Bull—-” (NY Times, as a family publication, couldn’t exactly print out the title, but you and I and the [...]

The passing of actor/civil rights activist Ossie Davis and playwriter Arthur Miller – Broadway’s lights off much too much lately. Because Monday’s Valentine’s Day (too commercialized – boo, hiss!) – I suppose I could be more optimistic and positive about it – at least, Slate.com did – with its resident poet editor(and former American Poet [...]

NY1.com has nice footage of the celebration in Chinatown. Ironically (or not) – cops caught folks in the Bronx with their roosters, prepped for rather illegal cock-fighting. Sad stuff – respect the rooster. Eat them, be nice to them, but don’t make them fight each other (and make it worse by surgically altering them to [...]

Greetings and salutations from Taipei. My first real Chinese New Year celebration and it was good that it happened in Taipei. Got the full deal here. Friends took us around Taipei to see the sights. We ended up going to DiHua Jie (DiHua Street) to gawk and sample all the traditional Chinese New Year foodstuffs [...]

These past two weeks were spent showing up. A couple of meetings with the alumni association, mostly dealing with benefits. I got to buy drinks for Dale Minami, who was being honored at the Waldorf. I saw Salman Rushdie at another dinner at Chelsea Piers, who made a witty comment about being the subject of [...]

So, anyone have interesting plans for the holiday? Rooster time…

Too soon to make any real analysis, but here are some thoughts – - like it was any surprise that New England Patriots would win. Kind of boring game, and while it was nice that Philadelphia Eagles made it as close a score deficit as they could, the game was what it was. – the [...]

Virtual worlds wind up in real world’s courts So this would be a great legal journal topic. 1. Is “digital property” (real) property? 2. What is intellectual property in a virtual reality/world? 3. Should virtual worlds be regulated at all? Bring a bottle of aspirin. The head turns.

Went to the Water Club with cohorts Thursday night – Restaurant Week special prix fixe (lest ye think my civil service salary would have enabled me to have afforded this otherwise). Quite cool. Ambiance. East River at night. The real breaking news, which I will have to seriously digest (which goes to show you what [...]