Day: December 30, 2005

Driving around the city after Christmas, I heard a bit of David Cronenberg on Fresh Air, as Terry Gross was doing her 2005 retrospective of her favorite interviews. Cronenberg was answering questions about his most recent film, A History of Violence, which I haven’t seen. Later in the day, I was in Borders, taking advantage…

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Christmas afternoon, we ducked out for a matinee showing of Shopgirl, the Steve Martin-Claire Danes film. The theater was small, but it was quite full shortly after 1pm. We weren’t the only ones taking a break from the holidays, or maybe we simply joined those who don’t celebrate this one. Made from a novella, the…

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I started the holidays by reading Interface, a thriller by Stephen Bury. Who is Stephen Bury? Neal Stephenson. But the marketing of this 1994 book has clearly morphed over time. At the URL above, you’ll get no details on the author. The paperback copy I bought new has a red promotional circle on the cover…

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Monday before Christmas, we did dinner and a movie with friends. The movie? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire I’ve seen at least two of the three previous films; I think I missed Sorcerer’s Stone. But I didn’t feel lost at all. The appeal (and curse) of sequels and series is that everything is…

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Cleaning out the Safari bookmarks from the past year or so, and dumping those worth keeping into my del.icio.us account. Along the way, I came across SFPD CrimeMAPS. This page describes the San Francisco Police Department’s CrimeMaps service, where you can view crime data mapped against the city. I think this was originally rolled out…

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I ordered the Project Aardvark movie as soon as Joel announced it. Still, it took me a few weeks to sit down and watch the 80-minute DVD before Christmas. Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks isn’t a video version of The Soul of a New Machine (read that if you have not). But Aardvark’d is a…

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