March 2009
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A Profession of Literary Faith
This morning I willed myself — yes, reading a dusty tome, these days, requires willing — to read Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions… . Ah, the weight of it, the sheer impressiveness of his book… burdens me. I would sooner buy a Kindle than dare risk the sanctuary of reading by carrying this thing into public: a park, the beach, a cafe. O, the things people would think at...
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Death to Winter - Filmed by Bike
One thing I miss about PDX is the annual Filmed by Bike festival. This rambunctiously odd, intoxicating dysfunctional, wheel-turning event showcases both great and seat-squirmingly bad shorts. Now that I no longer reside in Portland and can’t join the mob of cyclists at the Clinton Street Theater where drinking in the theater is allowed and encouraged, I sit quiety in my apt eager to...
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A couple of odd folks return bearing sealegs
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Monkey see, monkey do. Copyright infringement?
I recently wrote a silly post about VAEL Project, a new shoe line started by a family friend. In any case, I opened my email today to shock and awe. In a newsletter sent by my favorite sneaker store, Bodega, the folks in Btown have collaborated with shoe goliath, Rockport, to design a shoe that mimics the VAEL Project’s Mid Deckard. Now, it’s obviously not a replica of the VAEL but...
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I used to work for this guy
I followed a link my brother had sent me and low and behold, there, in the New York Times, was my old employer—Wells Guthrie of Copain. From the looks of this image, it appears that they’ve polished their barrels for this photo shoot—isn’t that always the case? One thing that annoyed me about working in the wine world is this artificial cultivation of a pristine, public...
The Wild Bunch - NY Times
“I’ve become a kind of laughingstock because I wait at traffic lights. Recently, as I waited in a bike lane at Atlantic Avenue for a light to change, a woman in her 70s, walking hunched with a cane, approached the crosswalk smiling — until she spotted me. Then she began shouting as I waited behind the crosswalk, “Well, are you going to stop?” I assured her I was waiting. She grimaced. “How...
If it doesn't exist on the internet, it doesn't... →
“the new radicalism is paper. Right. Publish it on a printed page and no one will ever know about it. It’s the perfect vehicle for terrorists, plagiarists, and for subversive thoughts in general.” My brain, in its self-defence, has engineered the perfect encryption code that only those most intimate can fully decode. Like stars, it takes a dreamer to connect the dots and to...
Five Steps to a the perfect Desktop →
My favorite Bain Trick—supersize your desktop icons. This forces you to keep your desktop clutter free.
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I realized that, I tell many of my tech-savvy friends to read this after they get their first Mac, but hadn’t ever linked to it here. If you see “having a million icons on your desktop” as a sign of weakness (and I certainly do), this is a easy-to-follow 5 step program to...
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Say good-bye to FM Radio. "So Long"
I’m always dumb struck when I learn that Public media (like NPR, PBS or Charlie Rose) are quicker to adopt new technologies than major networks. So when I learned about Public Radio International’s iPhone app, I was again surprised to see Public media one step ahead of its rival Networks.
Accessing live radio stations from a mobile device is the future of radio. Radio—in my...