The irony alert level is Orange
Published June 19th, 2008Here’s a sign I spotted today at Washington Reagan National Airport touting a conference called What’s Coming Next . . . which took place two-and-a-half months ago. Â
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Archive for the General Category
A digital camera: Don’t open your door without it
Published June 18th, 2008Via Gizmodo:“Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover. This, my friends, is why always having a camera nearby is helpful. Oh, and no one was […]
A dramatic leap into 2006
Published May 27th, 2008For the many of you who’ve been asking, yes, at long last I am now on both Facebook and Twitter.  Friend me.  Follow me.  Of if you dare, frollow me.
The (holographic) singularity is near
Published May 24th, 2008Here’s a short snippet of video I shot of Ray Kurzweil ”appearing” at the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle, UK yesterday.  Instead of flying to northern England, Kurzweil beamed in via Teleportec, a souped-up video feed that delivers a quasi-hologram of the speaker to the audience and allows the speaker to see the audience. Â
Robert Rauschenberg
Published May 13th, 2008When I arrived in Heathrow tonight, one of the first emails I noticed on my phone was a news alert from the New York Times:  ”Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82.”  A sad day. I’m a huge Rauschenberg fan — as much for the way he lived his life as for the […]
My 5 favorite books on writing
Published May 5th, 2008This post is getting a lot of hits over at JohnnyBunko.com.  Some of you might find it interesting, too.
Phrase of the day: The Sanford and Son Economy
Published April 30th, 2008With the price of precious metals soaring, and with discarded consumer electronics embedded with these valuables piling up in junkyards, Cryptogon heralds the rise of – get this — the Sanford and Son Economy. Â
Due(s) Day
Published April 15th, 2008Like many Americans, I’ve got conflicted feelings about taxes.  On the one hand, I recognize that they are the price we pay for civilized society.   On the other hand, I cringe (or worse) each time I pay them — because I have, er, serious doubts about the efficacy of handing over my hard-earned money to […]
(Lap)topless meetings
Published March 29th, 2008One reason I decided to work for myself 11 years ago was to avoid going to meetings. Â At one place I labored back in the early 90s, I was astonished to discover a few months into the job that several people did nothing except attend meetings. Â I’d have stuff to do (”Ahhh!!!”), but they’d […]
Our new look (version 0.9)
Published March 21st, 2008If you can read this, you can see that we’ve rolled out a new look for the site. We’re still fixing up lots of stuff. And I’m trying to learn a new blogging software system. So bear with us. And if you see kinks, chinks, or broken links that need fixing, […]