“The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” – William Gibson “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.” – John…
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Some Weather We’re Having
This is the current view from my parents’ house in southern California. They live on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles, but you’d never know it from this shot: Meanwhile, in Portland, Oregon, it was quite sunny yesterday afternoon. I’m…
Fun with Google Auto-Complete
Now that’s just wrong. See also:http://failblog.org/2010/08/31/epic-fail-photos-google-decency-fail/,http://failblog.org/2009/12/15/nah/. (Thanks to Cary and Andrew for the pointers.)
Write-a-Thon Wrap-Up
The Clarion UCSD Write-a-Thon 2010 ended a few weeks ago, but I neglected to tally up my donation numbers until now. Drumroll, please: Total amount donated: $419Total number of donors: 6Mean average donation: $69.83Largest single donation: $256Total words written: 44,135Putative…
SnoutCast #30: “And Now For Something Completely Different”
I’m not going to lie to you, Marge: this week’s podcast kinda sucks. [ Download mp3 – 30 MB ] 00:58 – “intelligent”01:47 – banter: what your characters do while the plot happens02:10 – “Is this a horror movie?”02:55 –…
Book Report: Drive
This made for an interesting companion book to Free, which I also read recently. Where Free looks at how businesses can make money off zero- or low-cost offerings, Drive investigates the other side of the coin: asking what motivates people…
A History of My Day in Six Glasses
Coca-Cola Classic to accompany brunch at the downtown Palo Alto Creamery;a cup of coffee to go with a slice of cake at Prolific Oven;a mango mint margarita with appetizer at Cascal;an orange Italian soda to cool off at Books Inc.;Bushmills…
SnoutCast #9: Questions and Answers
In which Curtis gives highly opinionated and possibly ill-informed answers to questions from one of our listeners, and DeeAnn presents well-reasoned and insightful responses to those same questions. It all sort of balances out in the end. Maybe. [ Download…
QuoteBusters: Lincoln didn’t say that.
Bayla here with some actual facts. I know, you probably didn’t expect to find those on the Internet. Just deal with it. While catching up with my blogs last week, I saw The Quotations Page‘s “Quote of the Day” for…