Cams to Calgs
Why is it all of the players I secretly desire to see in red and black end up in orange, black and red? Last year David Hale flamed out on Lou, and now the Kings trade Mike Cammalleri to Calgary at the draft to get picks. This is a smart move for both clubs, as [...]
Facebook Performance Art
For the past two summers I’ve goofed around about wanting to do a prose adaptation of Bruce Springsteen’s Jungleland. Couplets of the song’s lyrics have such a wide range of interpretation that you could spin a number of fast-reading short stories; my goal was to make the jump from technical writing (long, but factual) to [...]
Separating Ourselves From Our Culture
Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with Cory Doctorow over a breakfast orders of magnitude more healthy than the last meal we had shared. I’ve been fascinated by Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory’s third book, which someone called “the weirdest book I’ve ever read.” It’s not obvious; it’s clearly [...]
MoCCA 2008 (and a Haiku)
Went to the MoCCA show again this past weekend, for the second year in a row. Once again, it was an incredibly hot day in SoHo; but it was equal parts fun, laughing and meeting people. Got many compliments on my metallic Clango shirt, and R.Stevens himself noted it was the same shirt that had [...]
Feeling Old On A Friday Night
Bily Crystal wrote in 700 Sundays that he felt old when Mickey Mantle died, his first childhood hero’s death forcing him to deal with mortality. I felt the same way when Willie Stargell died in 2001, on the very day that the more-than-lifesize statue of him was to be unveiled at the new Pittsburgh baseball [...]
More on Context: Building Better People Networks
Finished editing my previous entry about providing context in a social networking world to find that my blog was sporting new comments for moderation. Normally this is something I take care of about once a week, akin to pulling weeds out of the cracks in the steps leading to my front door: unpleasant content, usually, [...]
Bit Errors
I encountered trio of bit errors this weekend on a family trip to Cincinnati. Each had me thinking about scale and context in different ways, and I only noticed the similarity while cropping photos of those things I found anomalous to roughly equal degrees. First up was this advertisement for Dunkin’ Donuts souvenir Mets cups, [...]
Persistence of Memory
A family trip to Cincinnati was punctuated with a trip to see Reds game. Their relatively new stadium is a wonderful place to see a baseball game on a spring afternoon. On the plus side: parking was easy an hour before the first pitch. Entrance was eased by plenty of security and ticket scanners. Large-bore [...]