Design Anxiety

November 12, 2007 – 9:03 am

All I know about Denmark is what gets imported: Legos, of course, but also a tradition of exquisitely clean and functional design. That’s why, as I prepare for my talk in Copenhagen later this week, I’m incredibly conscious of my own design and a bit jealous of Jessamyn’s outstanding use of orange.
Anyway, that’s where I’ll [...]

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iPhones Around The World

July 26, 2007 – 3:35 pm

A long time ago somebody started the Newtons Around The World gallery, and it came to symbolize the love we Newton users had for the little device as well as our geeky pride.
The trend seemed to continue with iPods Around The World, and now iLounge wants to start a gallery for the iPhone. I was [...]

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Quiet Comfort

February 15, 2007 – 12:46 pm

That’s me on JetBlue Flight 481 to Long Beach, wearing my noise canceling headphones. Sandee saw me wanting them, so she was especially happy to make them a Christmas present to me. And, with all the flying I’ve been doing lately, I was especially happy to have them.
I wanted the QuietComfort 2s not just because [...]

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damn that’s big

October 18, 2006 – 7:14 pm

The Switzerland’s Verzasca Dam is now added to the list of places I’d like to visit.
Verzasca Dam, travel, places I’d like to visit

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Flight, Hotel, Spa

August 7, 2006 – 12:42 pm

?Take a deep breath.? I did, and with it Lisa Souza, my massage practitioner at San Francisco’s International Orange, pressed into a knot just below my shoulder blade, deep in the latissimus dorsi. She worked along the length of it, not as a baker kneads bread, but rather as person wringing water from a damp cloth. Each press was deliberate, powerful.

I’d asked for the deep tissue treatment. Eight hours in planes from Boston (six hours to LGB, almost another two to SFO) had taken their toll, and this, I hoped, might spell relief.

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WordCamp

July 25, 2006 – 11:13 pm

As noted here, I’m going to WordCamp in SFO in early August.
Matt describes it as a BarCamp-style event (where ?’BarCamp-style’ is a code phrase for ‘last minute’?) with ?a full day of both user and developer discussion.? I’m just going for the free t-shirt, of course, but I can imagine a number of folks will [...]

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Sweet Portland

May 28, 2006 – 3:28 pm

I have to thank Caleb and Caroline for showing around town, and offer my apologies to Heidi and Alice, who had offered me tips and suggestions that I (again) didn’t have time to follow up on. Someday I’ll enjoy a Stanich burger; someday I’ll find Rimsky-Korsakoffee; heck, someday I’ll even get to Powells.

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Movie: Airport

April 21, 2006 – 12:29 pm

Iain Anderson’s animated film, Aiport, shows even the most pedestrian of designs come to life with a bit of creativity.
Elsewhere, a post at Copyfight, suggests that the availability of those symbols — their freedom from copyright and trademark restrictions — was a key factor in spurring their broad adoption, creating both the culture and the [...]

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Oregon City Municipal Elevator

February 19, 2006 – 3:55 pm

Oregon City apparently boasts one of only four municipal elevators worldwide. One hundred thirty feet tall, with an observation deck at the top, it seemed to be worth stopping for. Jason wrote in to Roadside America explaining:
It began as a water-powered elevator in 1915, but was upgraded to an electric-powered elevator in 1954. It is [...]

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On Flying

February 14, 2006 – 9:24 pm

If I didn’t like flying, or at least if I couldn’t tolerate it, I wouldn’t making my third distant trip in as many months. And though I know many others spend a whole lot more time in planes than I do, I still think Vasken has a bit of a point in the following:
I couldnt [...]

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Goodbye San Antonio

January 22, 2006 – 5:53 am

You won’t get your salad dressing on the side in San Antonio. I don’t know what it says about a place, but in New England it’s so common I never learned to ask for it on the side, it just happens. Not so in San Antonio.
You’ll also have trouble finding a place to eat [...]

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Barstow California

December 28, 2005 – 7:16 am

What didn’t work out because of our problems with the hotel was our drive to Barstow to see Sandee’s friend Joanne.
I don’t know much about the town, but Wikipedia told me to look out for the original Del Taco, Rainbow Basin Natural Area (site not loading now, try this instead), Calico Ghost Town, and the [...]

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Karen Kills in Karts

November 25, 2005 – 9:52 am

Karen has the smart-sexy-funny thing going on, but that doesn’t stop her from eating donut after donut or beating Will and me in every white-knuckled kart race we ran last weekend.
Drivers sit only an inch or two off the ground in karts that are said to go 40 miles an hour. Eight minute races may [...]

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Thermometer Museum

November 20, 2005 – 7:05 pm

Dick Porter, of Onset MA, has been building his collection of over 5000 thermometers since the mid-80s, though the collection has nearly doubled since 1998 when it was just over 3000. He calls it the world’s largest and only thermometer museum. He’s certainly passionate about them, and he’s been an invited speaker at more than [...]

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Getting A Passport

October 15, 2005 – 10:32 am

My old passport is expired and my wife has never had a passport, so I had to look this up. Fortunately, the US State Department has a pretty good website for it. There are rules of course, especially for first-timers or expired passport holders. You’ll have to fill out a DS11 application form and bring [...]

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