August 2011
7 posts
Waking up at 630, dreaming about the World Cup
There was a comedian on stage, he was talking about his childhood. He was making some joke about nintendo cartridges, blowing on them, but it was just a curl of wire in his hand. Something happened and I was pretending to be someone on stage, a bunch of people were playing different roles, we were staff in a hotel lobby or people in some old saloon or something. A kid representing the young...
The things I want to remember about my trip to...
The things I want to remember about my trip to Detroit for AAJA: The dark plane, the monitors glowing in every seat. Reading William Gibson. Sharp, careful, cold, like a scalpel. The D. Warm, cool air. The cavernous belly of the Marriot. The pixelated Cobo Center. Motown. The broad swaths of road. Motor City. The People Mover. The swarm of Asians, the skirts and makeup, ties and jackets. The...
Embedded in Academia : C No Evil →
#define FALSE 1#define FALSE exit()#define while if#define goto#define struct union#define assert(x)#define volatile#define continue break#define double int#define long short#define unsigned signed
Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings.... →
“So let me give you the news 2 months early. If the economy and the stock market continue to languish that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
I’ll bet most partners’ meetings this week consisted of…
What Happened to Obama’s Passion? - NYTimes.com →
A story isn’t a policy. But that simple narrative — and the policies that would naturally have flowed from it — would have inoculated against much of what was to come in the intervening two and a…
Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough... →
“A day after signing legislation that raised the government debt ceiling and authorized steep budget cuts, President Obama thanked Democrats as well as Democrats for their willingness to make tough,…
Plate Tectonics : Earthview →
“Photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the…