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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Belated friend-blogging
My New Year’s resolution to post to my blog more often was quickly challenged by my ongoing battle royale with the office cold, which has been epic. Thus I didn’t have a chance to post a timely link to Clive Thompson’s terrific piece on the problems with computerized voting machines - luckily, now the […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to my niecelets, who are three years old today, and not so small anymore. I spoke to them on the phone today, and they both wished me a happy birthday too, so we’re even.
(Also, my sister related back the best comment ever, when she took her always-up hair down: “Mommy, you have […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Vacation culinaria
Vacation culinaria
Originally uploaded by michelet.
Over the past week, I’ve been mostly hanging out at home, getting reacquainted with my apartment after a long and stressful last quarter of last year. When I spend time at home, taking care of the place, the urge to cook mostly just shows up by itself, and the last […]
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Weekend reading
For myself, I’ll be continuing to read The Arsonists’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, which is, fear not, a novel. But if you’re looking for some Awesome Design reading, you could do worse than Five Reasons Why The iPhone Is Older Than You Think, which was written by my boss and makes […]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
At the intermission of King Lear, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Dramatis Personae: Me and Lisa, who have had tickets since February, and Max, who delightfully was available to step in when Lisa’s mother couldn’t use her ticket.
Max: I… I just saw Ian McKellen’s bits.
Me: You really didn’t read any coverage of this play, did you?
Max: You mean, you knew?
Lisa: It’s been in all the articles.
Max: […]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Awesomeness
Recently, I had to write a bio for a not-work project I’m doing. I’m doing interaction design for the project, but I’m doing it for free in my (hah!) spare time, and I don’t want it to seem like my employers are involved or endorsing it. So I left out their name and […]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Misreadings
I don’t know what it says about me that I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt for the Steamfitters Union and misread it as the Spamfilters Union. But I know it can’t be good.
2 Comments » - Posted in Life online by Misha
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Apple’s next steps
So, my timing in posting about changing distribution models turned out to be pretty good after all, because today Steve Jobs announced the iTunes integration deal with Starbucks.
Once again, Maura is right: this is a super-smart deal. First, Apple and Starbucks are aiming for much the same middle-class, style-and-status-conscious audience, and they are both trying […]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Can’t stop the signal
ObDisclaimer: GE, NBCU’s parent company, is a client of my employer’s, but my opinions are my own, and not those of anyone I work for or with.
It’s an interesting coincidence that two stories about big changes at media companies happened to hit at just about the same time. Lynn Hirschberg’s profile of Rick Rubin […]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Upgrading the machinery
Apologies to anyone getting spammed by my testing out of Word Press 2.2 themes: I can’t find a way to browse options without installing them. Next on the plate is getting the del.icio.us, last.fm, and twitter widgets up, for all your stalkery needs.
