My mom’s notebook has been running dog slow of late, so I logged onto it last night to troubleshoot. I used iChat’s remote screen sharing feature, which lets me control her computer and chat with her at the same time, all from the comfort of my own home.
Now — one thing I like to do [...]
Penn Jillette, commenting on the frequent bashings that Christians receive on his Showtime program:
Teller and I have been brutal to Christians, and their response shows that they’re good fucking Americans who believe in freedom of speech. We attack them all the time, and we still get letters that say, “We appreciate your passion. [...]
From a Guardian story on the 25th anniversary of Elite:
Taken together, the operating system and BASIC gave you everything you needed to write and run your own little programs. But the computer contained no word processor, no bells and whistles, no array of applications waiting for you to play with them, no instant [...]
I reached a kind of dire epiphany on Friday. I was at work, looking at my lunch — two taquitos, twin amalgams of fat and grease and starch rolled up in individual corn tortillas, sitting in a pool of their own fluids — when I realized that I’m slowly killing myself.
This wasn’t a new revelation, [...]
Cringely has a fantastic column up on the story behind the recent executive shakeup at Apple: Tony Fadell — head of the iPod division, and probably the Father of the iPod itself — is out, and Mark Papermaster, erstwhile IBMer, is in.
But the column is really about Steve Jobs, of course, his mind and his [...]
Catherine Cheek, my friend and fellow Clarionite, is not only a great writer, but also a pretty amazing artist. So it’s kind of awesome that she’s decided to bend her considerable talents to making little notebook objets d’art for her writer friends.
Which is a sort of roundabout way of saying that I got a package [...]
We met our tour guide in front of the boat, an impossibly nice woman with a smile both constant and utterly sincere. She piled us into a minivan and drove us inland to the sandy shore of a river where a rubber raft was waiting, beside eight pairs of knee-high rubber boots, a bag of [...]
One unpleasant side-effect of being a cruise destination is the cankerous rash of tourist strips that inevitably blister the dockward side of your town. These places were my first impression of both Kitchican and Juneau, and they have an unfortunate homegenizing effect on a place: the weary sameness of ugly, repeated ad infinitum.
Or so I [...]
Juneau is an odd city, and possibly the most uncapitalish looking capital I’ve ever seen. The main government center, behind tourist row, makes a sort of half-hearted attempt at gravitas: a city hall with the requisite set of doric columns, a modernish courthouse with dull brick walls and a glassed-in entrance protuberance on the ground [...]
Although Ketchikan has a population of only 7368, it is the fifth largest city in Alaska1. This is partly due to the vast tracts of wilderness and icy waste that dominate the Alaskan landmass, but mostly due to the Alaskan state slogan: The State with a Billion Billion Cities.
Late Alaskan governor Mad Sparky McJuddnick instituted [...]
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