Isolation Thought

I just picked up a new digital cable box from Adelphia. It contains a DVR (a Tivo-like device) that may be the greatest invention ever. Pause live TV, do instant replay, store programs on the hard drive forever. It's easy to record stuff and after one day, I can never go back. Much like high-speed internet, they have me hooked. They could start charging $100 a month and I think I'd pay it.

Meal of Links

Vanity Fair has an update on the Lisl Auman case in Denver. I first heard of this case through Hunter S. Thompson about three years ago. Strange story of a girl sentenced for life in a cop killing, while she was handcuffed in police custody, obviously not pulling the trigger. Absolutely fascinating.

Frank Gehry designs a new lab building at MIT.

How to bag a big-time commencement speaker. C-Span shows a lot of these speeches.

Exercise Yard

Saw some decent boxing on HBO last night, before a super-charged crowd in Vegas. The Pacquiao-Marquez fight ended in a draw. Marquez actually fought back from a 10-6 first round, as he got knocked down three times. The bigger story was that local fraud, Vonda Ward, was knocked unconscious in the first round of her fight in MS. Lasted all of 1:07. Ward represents the worst of female boxing. She owned some garbage heavyweight title, fights like a robot, and for some reason is popular around these parts. I'm glad this non-story is finally over. Laila Ali would have kicked her ass to Pago Pago, and Ward was continually saying Ali was ducking her. Good riddance.

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