To brave cancer sufferers on both sides of the aisle. Elizabeth Edwards here, and Tony Snow here. (Note: that last is a mailto with a predetermined subject line–if you change it, it probably won’t go to the intended recipient.)

It’s only ten bucks a year.

A cautionary tale.

Both Maia’s lawyer and Stein said they had strong cases against the other, but both sides also said they had no foreseeable plans to file legal action against the other. In the wake of an increasingly nasty three-year-old feud that only ended with Seipp’s death, there’s a exhausted calm on both sides.

…of Lileks. On coins:

I upended the bag on the kitchen table, and whistled: wow. Junk. The dimes, for example, might fetch 10.001 cents today. I found many 1945 Mercury Dimes

No, really. And note, Joe Katzman and I are both avid divers.

This has always been my philosophy:

Over all, wines that I would have poured down the drain rather than sip from a glass were improved by the cooking process, revealing qualities that were neutral at worst and delightful at best. On the other hand, wines of complexity and finesse were flattened by cooking

This has always been my philosophy:

Over all, wines that I would have poured down the drain rather than sip from a glass were improved by the cooking process, revealing qualities that were neutral at worst and delightful at best. On the other hand, wines of complexity and finesse were flattened by cooking

This has always been my philosophy:

Over all, wines that I would have poured down the drain rather than sip from a glass were improved by the cooking process, revealing qualities that were neutral at worst and delightful at best. On the other hand, wines of complexity and finesse were flattened by cooking

I’m very sorry to hear that Elizabeth Edwards has had a medical setback, and though I don’t agree with her politics, and don’t want her husband to become president in any way, continue to wish her the best of health. Having just lost a friend to cancer, this event seems all the more poignant, particularly seeing all the heartfelt support from the blogosphere that (for the most part) transcended politics. Dean Barnett, who knows something of such things, is much more eloquent.

She lived three years longer than she was supposed to, and then even after being given two days, she lasted a little more. But Cathy is gone now (I assume that she never considered cryonics). But not gone for good. Gone for no reason at all, really. But as someone once said, with all the people she touched and influenced for the better, she left a wake of good in her life whose waves will probably continue to spread for years and decades. Maia seems to have been strong throughout, and she will perhaps be Cathy’s greatest legacy.

For those who didn’t know her, Moxie has perhaps the best picture of her as we knew her recently. And improbably, of all people, Susan Estrich has some touching thoughts of her own. Being on the wrong end of the country now, I regret not being able to attend the service on Friday (though I’ll be in Phoenix, which is a lot closer), and to celebrate her life with mutual friends, who were legion.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Here’s the obit from her nemesis, the LA Times.

Patricia’s computer needs more memory. It’s got half a gig, but it’s being brought to its knees. The board’s about four or five years old (I think it’s running a 1.8 MHz Athlon). It’s got an extra DIMM slot, but I don’t know how big a stick it can take. I can’t find the mobo manual, but I figured I could find one on line. The only identifier I can see on it says “Micro-Star Model MS-5390.” But when I do a search on that, I come up empty. I assume that it’s an MSI, but that model number doesn’t seem to exist in their data base. Anyone have any idea what’s going on? What are the chances that a board of that vintage can’t handle a gigbyte stick? I don’t want to go out and buy one unless I know it will work. On the other hand, just adding another half a gig would probably solve her problem.

[Update in the late afternoon]

Well, after reviewing the options (buying half a gig for sixty bucks or a full gig for a hundred and ten) and realizing that the memory I was buying would probably be useless on the next upgrade, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade now. Athlon 64 and a gig of DDR2 for ~$250. I can use the other mobo for a development linux box.