clock … watching time, the only true currency

Although I’ve read David Brin a few times before, I first learned about The Postman from the Kevin Costner movie of the same name. I haven’t seen the movie yet. Here are Brin’s thoughts on the film, which ran 177 (!) minutes. I won’t rush to see it, but I won’t avoid it, either. Still, [...]

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Slow run to work took 26:30. Can’t blame only the traffic lights.

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Steven Berlin Johnson’s Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life (Hardcover) was a Christmas gift, straight from my wish list. (Thanks, Alexis.) Mind Wide Open covered much of the same ground as the other recent book about the brain I read. Only better, and more interesting. Still, the concepts of the [...]

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Run home in just over 24 minutes.

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Hilly run down to Crissy Field and back, just over 36 minutes.

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Back in my early days online, AOL went from the rising upstart (behind Prodigy and CompuServe, which it later bought) to the behemoth…before the Internet wave swamped most of the pre-Internet online services. A few of the early folks with content areas and services on AOL rode the wave, kept building their audience, adapted to [...]

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Ran to the Apple Store and back for another power cord, killing two birds with one stone in just under 39:00 (with a break for purchase).

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Fascinating 22 minute video of statistician Peter Donnelly at TED explaining the impact of our general inability to interpret uncertainty. Logic doesn’t work here. I got his first example wrong, as he says most do. What about you?

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Ran to work, 22:30. Task for near future = remove posts to the Exercise category from the main RSS feed. Those who visit the site itself (new theme, by the way) can follow my log, but I’m quite sure that this part of my sharing isn’t garnering new readers. Narendra, data ownership is keeping this [...]

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Joseph Heller wrote an entire (astounding) book on Catch-22, but the always-fun This Is Broken website does it in one small photograph. Go look at “Scissors packaging at Staples.”

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