8 June 2006
In Washington

Filed under Life

I’ve been in DC for about a two and a half weeks now, and have shamefully not written anything about it. Part of this is I have a *huge* backlog of photos that I’ve been too lazy to put up in the forthcoming gallery, and the other part of the problem is my laptop hard drive has died, causing withdrawl-like symptoms as the best damn IT department in the world gets me a new one
Big ups to Al Gore, and his movie An Inconvenient Truth, hands down the best documentary since Bowling for Columbine. (And yes, I saw Fahrenheit…) The premise is simple: take the most popular vice president in history, his passion for a global issue that doesn’t involve terrorism, Iraq, or gay marriage, and his Apple Keynote presentation on aforementioned global issue (by the way, the presentation is the second-star of the show. Tufte would be proud, I think.) An Inconvenient Truth should be required viewing for anyone who has ever heard the words “global warming”.

For those who’d like to know a little more about me, I’m working at StreamSage, a subsidary of Comcast on javascript-enabled webcrawling. It’s a pretty-lax place to work, but still dealing with cubicles and the like. I have to say, it’s a pretty jarring transition from free-formed projects at Olin to the rigidity of here, and from what i’ve heard here is pretty far from more button-down places. Oy. I fear we Oliners have been corrupted.

 ::  Adam