External Modem: It’s 1993 Again!
Part of the fine print of Apple’s announcement yesterday of the new iMac G5 is that it no longer includes a built-in modem. Instead, you can buy a USB modem for $50. So let’s recap: way back when, you’d spend $200-$300 on an external modem, a big metal box with blinky lights that let you ...
Biking Fun, or, Clavicle Lesson
Today was exciting. While biking to work, a pickup truck turned in front of me, resulting in a bike + pickup pairing that wasn’t so good for the cyclist. Fortunately, I hit the ground in what a bystander said was a “good fall”: I hit with my shoulder and rolled, not splayed out or over ...
RIP Torrefazione Italia Fremont
Torrefazione – 3 Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. The beautiful Torrefazione Italia cafe near my office closed in September. Corporate owner Starbucks decided to shutter the Italian-themed cafes and concentrate on selling beans wholesale. This is my favorite picture of the ones I took a week or so before it closed. The baristas working there ...
Serenity
Kim and I saw one of our most-anticipated movies on Friday: Serenity, the big-screen version (or BDM – Big Damn Movie, for those familiar with it) of Joss Whedon’s television show Firefly. Honestly, I loved it. It puts the last three Star Wars movies to shame, because it dares to have a good script with ...
Shining: Wonderful Re-editing
Making editing available to the masses has its humorous effects. Someone took scenes from Stanley Kubrick‘s scary thriller The Shining, and edited them into a trailer for what looks like a heartwarming comedy called Shining (9.5 MB QuickTime movie file). Update: The New York Times wrote an article about it here.
Criminals
I quote Digby for an excellent roundup of the current state of our government: So, we have a federal probe implicating the president’s number one political advisor and the vice president’s chief of staff in the violation of laws protecting CIA agents and possibly lying to federal investigators. We have a multi-pronged investigation into a ...
Brown’s Soft Landing
When “Brownie” resigned as head of FEMA, I remarked to several friends that it wouldn’t be long before he was hired as a consultant for some other Bush-friendly firm or organization. But even I didn’t think that would be… FEMA: Daily Kos: Guess Who’s a New FEMA Consultant. CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that ...
Cafexperiment.com
Someone posted a comment on this page of my Flickr photo collection that I should check out www.cafexperiment.com. So I did. Wow! I’m in coffee-photo-heaven. I’ve sent my photo to them for posting.
iPod nano Review in Seattle Times
My review of the iPod nano appears in today’s Seattle Times: Apple reinvents iPod mini. I’m a design geek, so when Apple releases a product this small and this wonderfully well-engineered, I’m hooked. That the iPod nano provides nearly all the features offered by the full-fledged iPod makes it all the more appealing.
Raining (and Biking) in Seattle
Rusty Umbrella Man Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. August was hot and sunny, and although I know a lot of people go for that sort of thing, it’s not my preferred state. Call me crazy, but I actually prefer the rain and the gray – especially when I have a lot of work to do. ...
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