I’m in the newspaper! Of course, it has nothing to do with my day-to-day job. Instead, I was photographed talking to the photographer of the new Lincoln Highway book: Along the Father Road, Contra Costa Times, August 11, 2007 This complements my appearance in Bay Area Backroads on KRON 4 about road rallyes: Windows Media …
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A Month of Movies
From July 4 to August 4, I watched four movies in the theater, which is probably more than the previous two years. Transformers. Better than I expected — the action and graphics were quite good (of course), and the acting wasn’t bad (maybe because my expectations were low). It’s done amazingly well at the box …
Lincoln Highway Book Tour — San Francisco style
After work today, I made my way up to Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building to catch the endpoint of the tour for the new book, The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate, by Michael Wallis and Michael Williamson. The Lincoln Highway was the first road across America, yet …
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Matt Groening on "The Simpsons Movie"
I’m taking advantage of Comedy Central’s allowing us to embed their videos. (This certainly won’t be the last time.) Here’s Matt Groening talking with Jon Stewart about The Simpsons Movie.
Lucky is back!
When Save Mart bought the Albertsons supermarkets in Northern California earlier this year, I fully expected them to rebrand them as Save Mart. Instead, it’s pulling an “AT&T” and rebranding them as Lucky, their old name before they were bought out by Albertsons. I couldn’t help but smile when I found out — strong brand names truly never …
The joy of Wikipedia
As a kid I used to read the encyclopedia (yes, my nerdiness goes way back), so Wikipedia is truly a joy. Not only can I read it, I can also improve it. Most of my edits have been in subjects I initially know little about but have some strange interest in. I have an unusual capacity …
Today’s tech humor
From the excessive hype department: Apple’s New iPhone, as only The Onion can deliver A ‘Second Life’ parody you can’t miss, by Draftfcb, via CNET News.com
Spiritual computing
Today I attended a talk on “spiritual computing” by Dr. Craig Warren Smith, who works at the Human Interaction Development Laboratory at the University of Washington. Since spiritual computing isn’t well defined, much of his talk was devoted to examples, followed by a definition, which frankly I didn’t have enough time to absorb. What I did …
My life in bite-sized nuggets
As usual, I haven’t blogged as much as I’d like, but I have been regularly uploading my photos, so my Flickr photostream is a better representation of my life than my blog. Here’s what I’ve done since my trip to Orlando: Trip to Taiwan during Chinese New Year. It was great seeing a lot of …
One gold coin. One million dollars.
Get a load of this: earlier this month, the Royal Canadian Mint introduced a gold coin with a face value of C$1 million. It’s 99.999% pure gold and weighs 100 kilograms, or 45 pounds 220 pounds.