This afternoon, David and I intend to make our first batch of holiday spritz cookies. We have 1.5 lbs of Plugra butter softening….

iPad iOS 4.2 downloading. Am amazed at bandwidth Apple’s servers deliver despite everyone hammering at once — 4.2 must be Akamaized.

@fiberguy Official word is that 4.2 will be made available at 1000 am PST. It is now 818 am PST.

RT @johnmnbarnes BBC – Diagrams that changed the world http://bbc.in/cQlGAr Wise lessons here for verbose industry analysts! (via @cmendler)

Mod for TSA protest day to keep traffic moving: wear a radiation badge into the backscatter scanners and tweet results. (via @JeffreyBreen)

iPads now gain multitasking a la iPhones via iOS 4.2. This is a big upgrade for iPad owners. http://bit.ly/aJhvqP

This $99 tablet demonstrates clearly that Android does not replace the need for good hardware and software design. http://bit.ly/9pXNPQ

Despite being on vacation this week, I’m enjoying a new book on time series analysis. R makes so many things easy that used to be hard.

Mahler 8th in Nashua was wonderful; we speculate it may have been the first professional performance of Mahler 8 in New Hampshire ever.

Singing Mahler 8th Symphony (Symphony of a Thousand) tonight at Lexington Cary Hall and tomorrow at Nashua NH Keefe Hall. Don’t miss it!