Yes, it just hit me like a thunderbolt! Jason, traveling around in his ship to bizarre and uncharted lands, running into horrible dangers and getting his butt saved because some alien babe falls for him and shows him the secret way out. On a related note, this made me laugh hard: And with both characters [...]
I was down on Morton Street for a mid-day meeting, and had biked down from home along the Hudson Greenway — it reminded me of my Wall Street bike commuting days. To get to my afternoon meetings in midtown East, I tried out the bike lanes going up 8th Avenue, which are new and totally [...]
I’ve had Apple computers off an on since 1980. I remember a IIci that I dragged across country and back. But it’s really been a Windows world for me for most of the past 15 years, I’d say. Not anymore. A sweet little Aluminum Macbook and the 10.5 release of the OS (Leopard) has won [...]
Over the past year or so I’ve served on the Advisory Board of a terrific project called UrbanOmnibus — and the site is now launched and growing beautifully. It’s under the auspices of the NY Architectural League: The Omnibus features multi-media content to showcase design innovation, critical analysis and local expertise across a broad range [...]
This guy is brilliant in finding ways to work with his aversion to time-tracking. http://jexp.de/blog/archives/16-On-LEGO-Powered-Time-Tracking;-My-Daily-Column.html
I like science fiction just as much as every other purple-blooded American boy born in the 1960′s, though I wouldn’t call myself a fanatic. I was definitely influenced by Star Trek growing up, though I stopped watching TV a number of years ago and so I haven’t really kept up with the various TV sci-fi [...]
For the past few years, I’ve had a slow-burning desire to own less. Certainly in the physical sense, I keep looking around me at the contents of bookshelves, boxes of papers, odds and ends and jars of spices I haven’t opened in a year. I am just not going to use that star anise. How [...]
I held out for a long time, but my kids got a Wii as a gift recently and I finally tried it out. Wow, those wireless input devices really are a blast. And the design of the system is so nice and smooth. I remember playing early games on my Apple II+, so I recognize [...]
I realized tonight that the way I listen to music at home has really changed: the MP3 player (eg iPod) is not only for listening while you go away from your home, but is actually the way you move music around your home. Here’s the layout: At my desk, I play digital music from my [...]
I’ve been carrying two cell phones for the past few months, and the truth is pretty overwhelming: Verizon’s coverage makes T-Mobile feel flimsy. I’ve been impressed at the way my VZ Blackberry phone picks up signal in the subway underground, where T-Mo is still flatlined.
Although skeptical that I’ll find the time to do much writing, I’m excited to get a blog laid out again. So far, my experience with Dreamhost has been terrific. A few clicks, a credit card, and wham, it’s all working. Makes me feel kinda old and cranky, actually.
Although it makes me feel old to think back over the various application architectures I’ve learned in the past 25 years, there’s some consolation in the perspective I’ve gained. While I don’t get the same electric buzz from being introduced to a new one, it can still be exciting in a quieter way. And given [...]