I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
According to chuys.com, “The Richmond location closed for business
9-29-03. Relocating to Shenandoah; opening December 2003.” Ever since
the West Houston location closed, the
Westheimer location (near Rice) has been packed. More than ever
before. It looks like they opened the Woodlands location earlier this year,
but, man, it’s halfway to College Station. Doesn’t look like it
will draw much of the River Oaks crowd away. Oh, well.
It occurred to me yesterday that the Konfabulator folks should get
together with the Watson
people and form a support group for small
independent software developers who have had their products burgled and
duplicated
by Apple for inclusion in the standard Mac operating system
distribution.
Fahrenheit 9/11 did very well in the theatres this weekend,
beating out “White Chicks” (which played in three times as many
locations) for the top spot. Apparently, in highly left-leaning
districts (college towns, etc.) there was much booing and hissing when
Bush, Ashcroft, et al. appeared on-screen. I like the idea of audience
participation in this film. (Moore’s whole point is that there
needs to be more “audience participation” in this country, in general.)
Just call it the “Iraqi Horror Picture Show”.
Adam Cadre lavishes
happiness and light on Scary Go
Round by John Allison. “There have been very few comic strips whose
art is as big a draw as the comedy: the list pretty much begins and ends
with Calvin and Hobbes. […] I probably wouldn’t read
Scary Go Round — much less
shell out for spinoff books — if not for the fact that, like Calvin
and Hobbes, Scary Go Round is not only the best-looking major comic
strip of its era but also the funniest.”
Listened to AM HateRadio on the way back from lunch with Trey. Paraphrasing:
HateJockey: Caller, ma’am, you’re on the air.
Caller 1: I’d just like to say, about Dick Cheney, and what he said, that I loved it! I loved it, and I called the RNC right then and there and gave them $100.
HateJockey: That’s great! That’s fantastic.
Caller 1: Uh-huh, he told Leahy, “eff-you”.
HateJockey: Actually, it was even better, it was “go [BEEP] yourself.”
Caller 1: That’s right, because, you know, the Republican party needs to, you know, butch up! And I said that every time he said that, every time he said to “go eff yourself,” I’d donate again.
HateJockey: That’s exactly what we need! That’s outstanding. Go [BEEP] yourself. Ha, ha, I love it. Thank you for your call. Sir, you’re on the air…
Caller 2: Hello, sir, I am a big fan and longtime listener, but I must say that even in this election period, where either side will do whatever it can to win, and the Democrats are engaging in character assassination, I do not think this was appropriate behavior. What sort of example are we setting for our children?
HateJockey: Let me stop you right there, because, there are two reasons that I can see, for that kind of language, and I’m glad he used it, and here are the reasons. One. They were in a Senate chamber, a private chamber, and so nobody needed to know about it. Two, what about the lying speech Al Gore gave yesterday, which, by the way, was full of lies? That is all.
The Post is unafraid to quote Dick Cheney.
On Tuesday, Cheney, serving in his role as president of the Senate,
appeared in the chamber for a photo session. A chance meeting with Sen.
Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary
Committee, became an argument about Cheney’s ties to Halliburton Co.,
an international energy services corporation, and President Bush’s
judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass
advice.“Fuck yourself,” said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.
Leahy’s spokesman, David Carle, yesterday confirmed the brief but
fierce exchange. “The vice president seemed to be taking personally the
criticism that Senator Leahy and others have leveled against
Halliburton’s sole-source contracts in Iraq,” Carle said.As it happens, the exchange occurred on the same day the Senate passed
legislation described as the “Defense of Decency Act” by 99 to 1.