Archives for November, 2007
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: more on my wife and television
Friday, November 30th, 2007
My wife and I are zoning out in front of the television (again), and a commercial for a furniture store comes on. It informs us that if we buy their living room set we can “experience luxury beyond your imagination.” My wife frowns for a moment, and then says, “Beyond my imagination? What, is the [...]
Please stay tuned…
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Update: Turns out that it was my ISP having mail issues, not anything I’d done. Go, me. You may go about your business. Just popped open the personal email client and found that there’s suspiciously little (like, nothing) there since…um, the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving…somewhere after “hey, they were right, you can get a lot [...]
The First Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Being an excerpt from the letter that I wrote to my parents after preparing my first Thanksgiving dinner with friends (Olympia, WA, ca. 1990). “Mistakes were made. Things caught fire. Let’s move on, shall we?”
A Post in Exactly 140 Characters
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Twitter tells me that I “haven’t updated my followers” (which feels very old testament) in 24 hours. I attempt to update. Twitter is down.
Lunchtime Musings: on the writers’ strike
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I love seeing the striking writers producing direct-to-YouTube videos in support of their cause. The video below was posted yesterday, and as of 1:31 pm EST it’s been viewed 38,447 times. An awful lot of people are getting an engaging, amusing pitch for the writers’ position. Seems like the Big Content executives would benefit from [...]
NBC Direct Extremely Viewer-Friendly In Bizarre Alternate Reality
Monday, November 12th, 2007
NBC releases the beta of its ad supported TV download service (code named screw you, iTunes, I understand), and paidContent is unimpressed. To summarize, if one were a recently converted DVR-less Heroes addict who finds it inconvenient to watch the show when it airs, one’s (entirely hypothetical) options would be: 1. Go with the NBC [...]
Prince, sans the Revolution
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Techcrunch follows up on Prince’s rather eccentric recent moves to defend intellectual property that may or may not be his. [Yes, I know how surprising it is to see the words "Prince" and "eccentric" in the same sentence, just remember that you heard it here first.] Here’s the thing: it seems wildly inaccurate to hold [...]
IM IN YR IM SESSION, TERMINATING YR CONVERSATION. KTHXBYE.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Techdirt notes a patent application from Microsoft covering Automatic Goodbye Messages. Says submitter theodb (who is incidentally highly skilled at identifying asspatents): By automatically sending messages like ‘Have a great afternoon!’, ‘Sorry, I have got to go!’, ‘Have a terrific day!’, ‘Ciao, Harry!’, or even a simple ‘Bye!’ at the end of an IM session, [...]
