Archive for the ‘Distractions’ Category
Serendipity [October 1st, 2008]
I have a few playlists set up in iTunes that I listen to on a fairly regular basis. All of them are different, but I listen to them enough that I don’t want them to play in the same order every time. I rarely get all the way through one list at a time, so [...]
The phone of the future (if it was 1976) [August 28th, 2008]
Here’s how out of the loop I am: I had no idea there was a market for luxury phones. But, if this isn’t an introduction, I don’t know what is. I saw an article on the TAG Heuer Meridiist in the latest issue of a certain men’s magazine (the kind with articles, not pictures, thank you [...]
The Ultimate Rental [August 6th, 2008]
Everybody laughed at us. Not with us.
Thanks, soy. [August 5th, 2008]
I’m now down to one clean shirt for at least 3 more meals in Boston. And it’s white. This is not good.
Five Minute Vacation [July 23rd, 2008]
There is nothing quite like being on an island, knowing that beyond the rocky outcrop on which you stand is an extremely large expanse of water populated by colorful fish, roving boats, and the occasional nuclear submarine. It’s a good feeling to know that given a serious episode of not being able to read a [...]
More Spore! [June 18th, 2008]
Is it wrong that I await the release of Spore with similar anticipation to the birth of my first child? Yes, it is. But damn is this thing gonna be cool. You can download the limited creature creator now and the full creator by pre-ordering. Gives us the precious!!!
If a picture is worth 1000 words….. [May 16th, 2008]
Well, then maybe a video is worth 1000 pictures…
When I am not at my desk at NewCity, doing the things I do here, I am off working on my property or at my parent’s farm. Often “at my parent’s farm” means the same thing as “spending time with our Friesian horses”.
It is foaling season and [...]
Floaties are okay… [February 29th, 2008]
I have a confession to make… I am not, and probably never will be, a techie. It never bothered me before I began working at NewCity. I have a Blackberry, an iPod. When I came on board here they got me a swank, new MacBook with a separate, large-donkey flat panel monitor (bigger than anything [...]
Design Inspiration Comes From Many Sources [February 15th, 2008]
I’m always on the look out for new and interesting things as you never know what might spark your imagination. Things that might stretch my mind to ideas or concepts that I may not have thought of before. Good or bad usually makes no difference if the end result is that it got [...]
And they’re all obsessed with coffee, too! [January 23rd, 2008]
I haven’t read Lee Siegel’s anti-Internet book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob yet, but the New York Times has reviewed it and the opening, at least, sounds like the kind of argument I’ve heard against computers and technology ever since I was calling electronic bulletin board systems [...]