The code and product name for Macintosh OS X.4 is Tiger and it looks like it will have some fantastic new features.

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The New York Times has published their list of the 1000 Best Movies Ever Made. It’s a useful movie reference if nothing else.

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Slice is a news and review weblog on pizza in New York City. Note that they have a “piPod” applet that runs on an iPod. Of course.

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As you can see from the kinds of things in this store window, I’m in New Orleans, or, in the south. Amazing bunch of stuff for doing crawdaddies, shrimp, gumbo, and putting heat into things. Notice the “Ouch” in the upper left.

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New Orleans, like Japan and many other places, has it’s own castings on sewers and water mains (and meters). This was a nice one.

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Flying out of New Orleans this swamp looked like a great big hot tub for ‘gators. Amazing place.

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Some more fields and river shots north of New Orleans… The mighty Mississippi, flowing down to the gulf.

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I have no idea what’s going on with this field, do you? Looks like a house on the right with something leading into a field but what the heck is going on here? This is somewhere right in the middle, north of Louisiana. This swamp is just north of New Orleans. I really do not [...]

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Getting down toward New Orleans I noticed two different lazy freeway interchanges that were both quite different from the typical “clover” that one always sees. I wonder if this is the result of higher speed limits (cars going faster can’t make the tighter clover).

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On the way to New Orleans today, had to snap a shot of “Chi-town” as it was clear and we took off from O’Hare going back east and then turned south right in front of the city. The bottom of this picture got cut off by the window… dang, the switchyard went from 1 to [...]

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I can’t believe I’ve been posting pictures and comments to this weblog for months now and have not posted about my wife Anne. Well, here it is: I married “up” and not in the traditional way (although maybe that way too). My wife is smarter, more secure, cooler, and a better person than me, maybe [...]

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Roger Ebert, film critc for the Chicago Sun Times has written a wonderful essay called ’9/11′: Just the facts?

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The new Seattle Library looks quite amazing. I wonder how much Gates money is in it and if any of the computers are Macs? The floor looks like one could get literate just standing around. Wow, a dyslexic’s dream: no reading!

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Based on the Richard Russo novel, this is one of our all time favorite movies. Paul Newman is absolutely fantastic in this as is the rest of the cast. This is a slice of life in a small, upstate New York town. It’s a sleeper and well worth watching. Director: Robert Benton Cast: Paul Newman, [...]

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DockFun is a Macintosh OS X utility for configuring and customizing multiple docks. The movie at their site make it look pretty cool, might have to give it a go.

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I thought Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was a gag web site but in fact, this is an upcoming movie… in the class (or lack thereof) of American Pie. YES, I can’t wait.

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Rebecca Mead is a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2000 she did a piece on Meg Hourihan called You’ve Got Blog which was prescient in that the blog universe has taken off considerably since then and Meg was and still is a serious force in it.

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Our Wednesday evening drum group has been meeting at a member’s house and tonight she was away but we met at her place anyway down by her pond. The sound of the 5 djembes echoed across the water and up against the trees in the most wonderful way. I can see we’ll be drumming around [...]

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In England, everything is permitted unless it is forbidden. In Germany, everything is forbidden unless it is permitted. In Italy, everything is permitted, even if it is forbidden.

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10 Questions For David Sedaris is a short interview in Time magazine. Sedaris is a writer, humorist, and amazingly entertaining guy. He writes for The New Yorker, does pieces for This American Life on NPR, and much more.

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