clock … watching time, the only true currency

We spent the weekend down the California coast, kid-free (thanks, Laura!). Route 1 enchanted, Hearst Castle’s extravagance boggled, and running on our own schedule refreshed. I should write up the hotel for HotelChatter.com, but not tonight. After driving Route 1, learning that the 17 mile drive costs $8.50 was an unpleasant surprise. We decided 90 [...]

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I finished Patrick O’Brian’s The Hundred Days a few weeks ago, and I don’t have the energy to spend much time commenting on it now. I’m knee deep in my next book (think Stephenson), and work has been busy. Anyway, this is #19, and I’ve only got one more left in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Too [...]

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Time to clear out the Safari bookmarks bar once more. The ‘Purple Haze’, revisited reviews a cartogram of the presidential election votes. Thanks to hearing about the meme from Neil Turner, I’ve posted my desktop show and tell to Flickr. Here’s the global tag. Jon Gruber on the poof in MacOS X Gallery of stick-figure [...]

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A favorite of the Slashdot crowd, Paul Graham takes time to craft his words in ways which make my synapses smile. Many of the essays in his book Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age essays have appeared online previously. I’ve noted a couple before. The book collects fifteen essays, all springing from [...]

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The days leading up to Halloween are a crescendo of excitement with young children in the house. As witness, I offer the following, overheard three mornings before the costumed, candy-filled parade. The boy is talking to his sister (who doesn’t yet reply): If we don’t get any sleep, we can’t go trick or treating, so [...]

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Northern California isn’t yet a separate nation-state, or economic superpower… although California as a whole is. But with all the different versions of a imagined geographies appearing around the web, you have to wonder if NoCal, as envisioned by William Gibson in Neuromancer (among other novels), will ever find a new place in the country [...]

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