http://oldtasty.com Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:08:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I voted, originally uploaded by Oldtasty. My first vote in California. The polling place in my little suburban community was busy but not crowded. My sister wrote in an email this morning, "I love voting" and I completely agree. California may be all in for Obama (me too), but there are ... http://oldtasty.com/2008/11/04/i-voted/ Me and mom, originally uploaded by Oldtasty. My mom's my most loyal reader, so I can't imagine a better place to post my birthday wishes (though admittedly it's a little late in the day). 41 years ago today, my mom celebrated her birthday in Deaconess Hospital, recovering from delivering a bouncing baby ... http://oldtasty.com/2008/11/04/happy-birthday-mom/ The Politics of Aristotle Translated Into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Essays, Notes and Indices By Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett The Politics of Aristotle Translated Into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Essays, Notes and Indices By Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett http://oldtasty.com/2008/10/29/aristotle-was-a-socialist/ Modern British Poetry By Louis Untermeyer http://oldtasty.com/2008/10/22/invictus/ I came across this Peanuts panel over the weekend in a post on the WFMU blog touting their upcoming record fair. I LOVED Peanuts when I was a kid (a strip which from an adult perspective has a healthy dose of melancholia and fatalism that didn't really register at the ... http://oldtasty.com/2008/10/20/record-therapy/ table.lfmWidgetchart_023a01a890897a3b493da909c2441212 td {margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;border:0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetchart_023a01a890897a3b493da909c2441212 tr.lfmHead a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/header/chart/recenttracks_regular_grey.png) no-repeat 0 0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetchart_023a01a890897a3b493da909c2441212 tr.lfmEmbed object {float:left;}table.lfmWidgetchart_023a01a890897a3b493da909c2441212 tr.lfmFoot td.lfmConfig a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/footer/grey.png) no-repeat 0px 0 !important;;}table.lfmWidgetchart_023a01a890897a3b493da909c2441212 tr.lfmFoot td.lfmView a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/footer/grey.png) no-repeat -85px 0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetchart_023a01a890897a3b493da909c2441212 tr.lfmFoot td.lfmPopup a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/footer/grey.png) no-repeat -159px 0 !important;} I'm ... http://oldtasty.com/2008/09/10/277/ What he said. And if you haven't seen it, Funky16Corners is one of the best music blogs out there. More scratchy funk, soul and R&B than you can fit on your hard drive. Don't know how he finds the time to do it, but more power to him, he's serving the ... http://oldtasty.com/2008/06/13/i-only-have-eyes-for-you/ Sheena and Kurt, originally uploaded by Oldtasty. 41 years ago, the United States Supreme Court declared any law restricting marriage between races unconstitutional. This includes a law that was on the books in Missouri prohibiting marriage between whites and anyone of Asian descent. How things have changed. http://oldtasty.com/2008/06/12/happy-loving-day/ New bike, originally uploaded by Oldtasty. Did a test ride to the office yesterday, and rode in again this morning via the Stevens Creek Trail. Gas is up to $4.08/gallon out here, and I need the exercise anyway. But really, it's just nice to be back on two wheels again. http://oldtasty.com/2008/05/27/new-bike/ So after reading Mark's writeup of Patrick Wilson's "Two Kinds of Power: an Essay on Bibliographical Control" I was intrigued enough to hustle off to Google Book Search to see if they'd scanned a copy already. They had. [Disclaimer: I work on the Google Book Search team.] Of course, because ... http://oldtasty.com/2008/05/22/connections/