I've created a page to collect the interesting news and bits I come across:

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(Why clutter my friends' inboxes when I can post stuff here?) ;)

So life is about loss - or maybe it's more accurate to say, loss is a part of life. Kids grow up, friends move on, projects end, people pass away. Things are great - a relationship, a friendship, a group or team working together, those moments when you're with some people who just fit and you all are having a great time hitting life head on, and ( Read more... )

Today, after fifteen months, something has officially changed ( Read more... )

My afternoon in the bookstore, part 3.

Anthony Lane of The New Yorker on Bill Murray (from his review of Rushmore (1998), collected in the new book Nobody's Perfect):

Now, that in itself is not an amusing line of dialogue, but we're talking Bill Murray here, so watch out. Those of use who worship Murray, who take him to be the exploding cigar in ( Read more... )

My afternoon in the bookstore, part 2.

From Life As We Do Not Know It, the Nasa Search For (And Synthesis Of ) Alien Life (2005) by Peter Ward:

Venter sampled seawater from the Sargasso Sea of the Atlantic Ocean and, using the same powerful gene mapping techniques that were perfected in the Human Genome Project, surprised the biological community ( Read more... )

My afternoon in the bookstore, part 1.

From Airports: A Century of Architecture by Hugh Pearman:

...Designing an airport is much more than a matter of designing buildings. It is a matter ofd designing a city-state, which has distant echoes of utopian thinking about it but which always carries the risk of turning into a dystopia instead. One ( Read more... )

Okay, here's a spew. Probably to be edited later ( Read more... )

On my way to Sundance 2006 (Yay!). Pulled over to a motel in Boise, which oddly enough turns out the be the exact one myself and the two gals stayed in on our way through for Sundance 2004, and I hadn't even remembered ( Read more... )

Okay, it's time to start selling cool designs (t-shirts, a web comic, and probably some "how to be creative" essays thrown in for good measure). It'll be my own 'small step' and the chance to put some stuff out there.

Guy Kawasaki's blog has inspired me. (He is a venture capitalist and was part of the original Macintosh team, and his blog is all ( Read more... )

You wanted my top 10 list for 2005. Well here's my top 1 list:

1. THE BAD NEWS BEARS.

You read right.

I saw some other stuff - Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, Squid and the Whale, Sin City. They were okay. I didn't dislike them. But... just not thrilling. Not enough of a reaction to put them on any kind of a "list."


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