Archive for November, 2006

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Living in the future…

…means ending Thanksgiving Day by watching a video of Arlo Gurthrie performing “Alice’s Restaurant” on his freakin’ MySpace page.
Happy tryptophan, each and every one.

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Work-related posting

I am probably required by the Laws of the Intarweb to note that my employer has finally succumbed to the inevitability of rhyme and launched the frogblog. Not much content there so far, but it’s already attracting some surprising commenters.

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006

The good ended happily… that is what Fiction means

Big ups to header-quote-provider Richard Powers, whose new novel The Echo Maker won The National Book Award for fiction last night.
I have a copy of The Echo Maker, bought at a Borders in Chicago with the Zombie Queen and King last month, still in my suitcase. I’m looking forward to sitting down with it […]

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

After the elections

As regular readers of my non-posting know, I’ve spent a lot of the past year traveling to do user research.
Part of what all that travel does to you — or, at least, to me — is make you value the specificity of your own local life all the more. At my coffee store, this […]

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