I got to take credit for something today that I didn’t do, thanks to the wife. How much longer before the boy reads the blog and asks me what I’m referring to? 😉 (Yes, I owe you big time.)

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Last week, the boy wanted to make Inca masks. I told him we might find something on the Internet, so he typed away. Didn’t get a great response from the Safari address bar, but I think he’s starting to get the idea. Note: I never did find useful instructions for such a craft project, even…

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I have not yet turned Growl back on, but Growl was not the problem. I took the iMac G5 into the Genius Bar last Saturday night (yes, I’m that much fun), for the second trip in three days. Good news, though, was that I left the computer there that night, and had it back, free…

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Norman Mailer‘s best-known book The Naked and the Dead filled my nights over the last few weeks. I didn’t plow straight through, but I became more interested the further I went on. My grandfather served on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II. The island warfare depicted in this book, following an army…

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I’m putting all training details over on WeEndure, but a race is worth noting. Emerald Nuts Across the Bay 12k was this morning. I didn’t spend more than a few strides enjoying the morning view on the Golden Gate Bridge, but the weather was pretty nice and the race felt good: 47:39. I last ran…

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At times, the head gets racing, and despite myself, I can’t sleep. I’ve been up for a bit over two hours already. Been a productive time, actually, but it’s going to make the rest of this day pretty tough… the boy wakes up in probably 10 minutes, so not much point in trying to go…

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Update, March 17th The sleep problem reoccured, and now it’s gotten worse: the computer won’t start up. Heading back to the Genius Bar tonight. 🙁 I suppose the good news is that maybe after all this is solved, I can turn on Growl again, since it’s not longer clear that was the (only) problem. It…

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After fighting allergies during the last two beautiful days in San Francisco, it’s time to clean out the inbox from the last few weeks. The Daily Mail reminds us all of Worldmapper, which tries to use maps to tell different truths. All maps distort reality. These maps do it deliberately, which makes them more honest…

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We went to see Zodiac earlier in the week, and I’m mildly glad we did. Though the saga went on for years, all the killing and concern was before our time here in San Francisco. So, if nothing else, we got to see a digitally-re-created Embarcadero Freeway, the time-lapse construction of the Transamerica Building, and…

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Richard K. Morgan‘s third book, Market Forces, steps away from the world of Takeshi Kovacs (Altered Carbon and Broken Angels). Like much notable fiction, Morgan spun a good story here out of a single exploratory thread: what happens to corporate politics in a world which is a state of managed disintegration? Morgan’s answer? Sanctioned violence,…

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