Vitanuova for 2002 September 9

Logic

Die Logik ist zwar unerschütterlich...

(That bug seems surprisingly subtle. When does "if not A" fail to be equivalent to "unless A"? Read the bug report and find out!)

Book fair

I went on Saturday to the book fair put on the by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, and there I found a lot of great used books at very cheap prices (typically around $2 apiece). People who know about other things like that should let me know about them (thanks, Gwen, for the news of this one), and people who want to hear about them might consider joining seth-trips or following its archives.

I know there's a smaller antiquarian fair coming up in Northern California this fall, but I've misplaced the flyer for it. Can anybody remind me of the details?

Joke

I like this joke by Leonard.

SONICblue

It seems that the leadership of SONICblue suffers from a public goods problem: having somebody courageous in charge of SONICblue creates benefits for everybody but costs mainly for SONICblue. (This problem is constantly popping up in business -- there are so many opportunities for businesses to do good things, as SONICblue has done, which might not maximize their short-term revenues.)

Concert

I went with several people (Michelle, Anirvan, Nandini, Ben) to the Noe Venable concert at the Freight and Salvage, and there I also saw Fred and Cindy. That was a nice time.

Birthday

Happy birthday to Sumana.