Monthly Archives: June 2006
Hitachi Travelstar Supernovas
June 27, 2006 – 9:25 pm
Some time this morning my wife’s laptop hard drive bit the dust. It crashed for good with no warning, just making a clicking sound when we powered the computer. I booted into Knoppix, and when it did detect a hard drive at all it said “can’t find superblock.” I even put the drive in the [...]
Living by the Sword
June 24, 2006 – 2:44 am
It’s easy to consign the horrors of the Roman gladiatorial contests to a benighted culture distant from ours, as though we moderns would be constitutionally incapable of such evils. It’s also easy to write a jeremiad based on selective parallels between ours and ancient cultures.
Welcome to the World
June 8, 2006 – 10:23 pm
My son, Samuel Edwin Matzko, was born today at 3:18 EDT by cesarean section. He’s 8 lbs. 12 oz., 20 inches long, and has strong vocal abilities. Mother is doing well, and son is a little bewildered but catching on quickly.
Zipcar
June 5, 2006 – 11:35 pm
One of our smartest choices in moving to the city was to sell our cars. We don’t have to worry about automotive fines, taxes, payments, repairs, or insurance, and we can mostly rely on the T to get us where we want to go. But occasionally there are places remote enough to make the T [...]