About time I moved from version 2.0.3 of WordPress. Last post before I do so…

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Jim Fallows reminds us that The Atlantic’s efforts to be timeless rather than timely often result in scarily accurate predictions. I wish 2005’s Countdown to a Meltdown were less accurate. 🙁 Just one of the many points, written as a memo to the incoming president of 2016: For politicians every aspect of this cycle was…

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Cleaning out the personal inbox, I find… Long profile of Marissa Meyer at Google, from San Francisco magazine, strays from the tech, deliberately. An interesting application for a tablet PC, where physics acts on 2D objects line-drawn with a “crayon.” A mapping application for Facebook, which I haven’t installed. Worry about how to back up…

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The name Robert Fisk was new to me when my friend Chris dropped this weighty-in-every-sense book on me many weeks ago. A reporter for the UK newspaper The Independent for several decades, Fisk has his own unofficial website. This is an advocacy site, though not affiliated with Fisk himself. Why does a reporter who lives…

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One reason I keep this journal, however infrequently, is to avoid re-reading. However, sometimes the act is deliberate. The boy poured through the three volumes of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and returns to them often. So, to keep up, I re-read The Golden Compass. Now when quizzed about my favorite parts or characters, I’ll…

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The dark comedy In Bruges brightened my mood a few weeks ago. Previews highlighted comedy and Colin Farrell as a foul-mouthed lout of a gunman. Both are true, but the comedy is balanced with a sad strain that was unexpected. The balance helped the story. Regarding the language: I was more bothered by the moments…

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Nothing like a good satire to cleanse the palate. I enjoyed the title sequence almost two years ago. Friday night, I watched Thank You For Smoking. Full bore fun, riding the commercial and political system we have to the (almost logical) extent…this movie doesn’t have a (cough) filter (cough). Metacritic: 71

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Engineering positions in San Francisco, available now. Even if you’re not an engineer, if you refer someone we hire, there’s a cash reward in it for you ($1K). (Just in case good karma wasn’t enough.)

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I’ve never heard of Alex Reisner before today. My gratitude to Adam Kalsey for the link. I just now realized that Reisner’s post is from March of 2006, almost 2 years ago. But this is timeless, not timely. What a marvelous, brief examination of history and its forces: Baseball Geography and Transportation. Effectively annotated with…

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Rather than spend time trying to buy an airline ticket I don’t want, I’ll clean out the inbox with a few links gathering dust. This weekend, I saw the $1 image stabilizer in action, and Rich got some great pictures of the kids. Pretty sharp! Last year, I saw the Windows Vista packaging in person…

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