Posted in Movies on Feb 24th, 2004 No Comments »
What’s interesting about watching High Fidelity is that the screenplay uses so much of the writing of the book that I really want to read the book now, and think I will. This is one great movie. John Cusack is in rare (and typical) form and Jack Black made me laugh (anyway). We like the [...]
Posted in Birds on Feb 24th, 2004 1 Comment »
We live across the road from a large cornfield. In winter this field gets fertilized with cow manure. Right after the manure spreader is finished, Canadian geese land and have “dinner.”
Posted in Macintosh on Feb 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Making the Macintosh is one of many online documentaries of the colorful history of the design and building of the early Macintosh computer. One of the best interviews in this project is a long one with Susan Kare who designed all of the early typography, the icons in both the Finder and primary applications, and [...]
Posted in People on Feb 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Today is my granddaughter Erin Shea’s 3rd birthday but the party is later and I thought I’d honor her by putting up one of my best cat pictures: Erin pulling and eventually chewing on her cat Floyd’s tail when she was one.
Posted in People on Feb 21st, 2004 No Comments »
During one of my bigger life transitions in the late ’70s I was moving out of the art world and eventually into the world of computers. I was living in Eugene, Oregon in a rather “hermitic” existence. I had a daily routine that included walking a loop: library, health food store, book store, home. The [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Feb 21st, 2004 No Comments »
Apple Computer, Inc. has put a nice RSS (Really Simple Syndication) page up at their web site. You can use various news reading clients to read these. RSS and a news reader is an alternative way to aggregate news and information rather than scanning through multiple pages at multiple web sites. RSS Feeds from Apple
Posted in Places on Feb 20th, 2004 No Comments »
I was in London recently and rode the “Underground” daily. I think it’s supposed to be the oldest subway system on earth. Anyway, this is a wonderfully imaginative use of the London Underground System Map. AnimalsOnTheUnderground.com
Posted in Humor on Feb 20th, 2004 2 Comments »
I get my share of Viagra-related spam. Here’s a funny story about a guy who decided to have some fun with it. Reading this really made me laugh. Check out his answers on the various “medical forms,” they’re amazing. And, keep reading beyond the first page; read each “chapter” as it gets better and better [...]
Posted in Movies on Feb 20th, 2004 2 Comments »
This is one amazing movie in that it captures so many aspects of being an American in modern day urban Japan: the jet lag, the cultural offsets of high tech and thousand year old customs, the language barrier, and much more. And, the loneliness of business travel, relationships, and more. Wow. Director: Sofia Coppola Cast: [...]
Posted in Movies on Feb 20th, 2004 2 Comments »
Great coming of age movie. Poor coal miner’s son in northern England discovers that he’s interested in dance. Wonderful characters. Director: Stephen Daldry Cast: Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jamie Draven Billy Elliot Web Site Billy Elliot at Amazon
Posted in People on Feb 19th, 2004 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell writes for the New Yorker and is one of their brightest, young rising stars. His latest article is called Big and Bad and is on the false sense of saftey driving an S.U.V. gives people. It’s an amazing article. Each time he publishes a new article he puts it up on his web [...]
Posted in People, Politics on Feb 19th, 2004 No Comments »
Salon recently had a piece by Christopher Noxon about his experience writing a review of Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie The Passion of the Christ for The New York Times Magazine. Mad Mel I’ve given this post a political category because the controvercy over this movie has that feel to it.
Posted in Tools on Feb 18th, 2004 No Comments »
While in San Francisco I noticed a crane working next to our hotel. It was lifting steel up to a building 2 blocks away. The crane and hanging girders had to clear a tall building and the crane driver was operating blind with a radio and two spotters on nearby buildings. It was amazing and [...]
Posted in Animals, Our Place on Feb 17th, 2004 No Comments »
This picture needs no caption. What can I say? No matter how high I raise it they find a way to jump or drop or undoubtedly use a cherry picker. The interesting question is, what must his back toenails be like to suspend him so readily?
Posted in Art and Design, Places on Feb 17th, 2004 No Comments »
Walking south from the center of North Beach in San Francisco on Columbus Ave. toward the Transamerica Building one passes by an old, copper-clad building with a restaurant in the ground floor. This building is the headquarters of American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s studio. His daughter, Sofia Coppola wrote and directed Lost in Translation, which [...]
Posted in Places, Politics on Feb 16th, 2004 2 Comments »
I was walking across the street in San Francisco last year and noticed a bus stop on Bush St. I couldn’t resist.
Posted in Politics on Feb 16th, 2004 No Comments »
The Atlantic has a great article by Ted Halstead called The Chieftains and the Church. It’s a history of both parties, and how they’ve ideologically flip-flopped numerous times since their births.
Posted in People, Reading on Feb 15th, 2004 No Comments »
A while back NPR did a wonderful piece piece called For Love of Insects. The author, Thomas Eisner is, well, a noted biologist, and a character. For Love of Insects at Amazon
Posted in Art and Design on Feb 14th, 2004 2 Comments »
In the old days, a long time ago (1970-1980) I was a potter and made a living selling wares and teaching ceramics. Most of the photos of my work are in slide form and I have not gotten around to scanning them. Here are a few that I have. This is a small stoneware “jug” [...]
Posted in Opinion, Politics on Feb 13th, 2004 No Comments »
Dean says that Democrats are making a grave mistake if they nominate John Kerry. We’re not going to win this election if in October George Bush turns to the Democratic candidate and says: ‘You were with me on the war; you were with me on No Child Left Behind; you were with me on tax [...]
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