Robert’s Blog

For those of you who’ve been harrassing me for more Maya pics, there’s a whole bunch of new shots up on my Picasa page now.

She was a lot more into it early in the first half.

Six months later, I’m still loving my Kindle ebook reader. I had watched plenty of electronic book readers come and go over the years, and reviewed plenty for various publications. Before Amazon got into the game, I would never have laid my own money on the line for one of these devices. Yet the Kindle continues to be the single most satisying electronics purchase I’ve ever made.

I was inspired to write this, because today — for the first time — I tried e-mailing a PDF document (a copy of Max Tegmark’s paper “The Mathematical Universe”) to my Kindle, and the conversion came out beautifully. It’s still considered an experimental feature, but the Kindle converter transferred handily what began as a fairly complex PDF document loaded with hyperlinks and multi-column formatting.

I admit I’m sort of fascinated by the new BeerTender tap system from Krups, which works with off-the-shelf Heineken DraughtKegs to give you a pub-style beer tap on your kitchen counter, coffee table, backyard patio, nightstand, or whatever other surface you care to drop it on. But as far as I’m aware, no brewer besides Heineken ships their beer in a DraughtKeg, making this $300 gadget pretty much useless to anyone who doesn’t want to spend their summer nights sipping the same old swill night after night. Even if you absolutely love Heineken beer, which I suppose is possible, I can’t imagine why you’d buy such an expensive accessory for just one brand of beer.