February 2012
3 posts
January 2012
3 posts
5 tags
Places I slept, 2011
San Francisco, CA
San Antonio, TX
Santa Monica, CA
San Diego, CA
Washington, D.C.
Salt Lake, UT
Medford, OR
Arcata, CA
Cherry Hill, NJ
Ithaca, NY
Queens, NY
Brooklyn, NY
El Paso, TX
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Poughkeepsie, NY
Shanghai, China
Hangzhou, China
Lake Shasta, CA
Moss Beach, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Chicago, IL
Santa Cruz, CA
Manhattan, NY
Charlotte, NC
Timber Cove, CA
A...
December 2011
5 posts
7 tags
iPhone 4S thoughts, part 1
A preamble: Given the current uncompetitive US cellular climate and relatively atrocious level of service provided by all of the major players, a major goal of mine remains minimizing the total dollars given to my cell provider. If this is a shared goal, the optimal time for cell phone replacement, on contract, at subsidized rates, is the first moment possible.
To clarify: Apple sells unlocked...
November 2011
1 post
6 tags
Replaceability
There is a feeling, which happens with greater and greater frequency as we age, that some product is perfect for us. That we will need no improvement, and that any future iteration will probably be worse.
We’d like to freeze time, to have whoever makes whatever it is continue, indefinitely.
Occasionally we are lucky, and the product is of such mass appeal that the company in question...
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
8 posts
4 tags
Adidas Marun
Between August 2005 and August 2008 I lived a strange life, working and living in Shanghai and spending several weeks a quarter in Los Angeles. On these brief sojourns across the Pacific I would see friends, do business, and shop.
On one of these trips, which I know now to have been August 2007, I bought a pair of Adidas sneakers.
I’ve worn Sambas since about age 4, and was looking...
August 2011
8 posts
5 tags
HKIA
Hong Kong looks gorgeous as the sun rises. In early thanks to good wind and awake thanks to the ability to sleep anywhere, the mountains get my full attention as the light creeps down them.
People often tell me San Francisco is the most beautiful city they have ever seen. I ask them if they’ve seen Hong Kong. Because, liking one, with it’s bay and bridges, with the tricks of light...
July 2011
5 posts
9 tags
Ubaldo Jimenez
Every year at their time the rumors roll in about deals that will be done, players who are available, and other nonsense. Usually I ignore them, because they’re unreliable and in a month will be forgotten. However, as I’ve recently become something of a Rockies fan, at least when they’re not playing the Cardinals, I have a few thoughts about the man whose name headlines this post.
Ubaldo is one...
June 2011
2 posts
Temperature variations
Waking temperature (San Francisco, Sunset): 50 degrees F
Arriving at work temperature (Petaluma, CA): 52 degrees F
Leaving work temperature (Petaluma, CA): 78 degrees F
Arriving home temperature (San Francisco, Sunset): 50 degrees F
The summer has come to San Francisco. Pack hoodies.
May 2011
2 posts
10 tags
Letters to the FCC part 1, AT&T and T-Mobile
The purchase of T-Mobile by AT&T would be bad for consumers in the US for the following reasons.
Currently, T-Mobile is the only carrier that sells and supports unlocked phones. This means that any GSM phone, which is most of the phones world-wide, will work on T-Mobile’s network. AT&T uses a software lock in their phones, like the iPhone, so that they can not be used on another...
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
6 posts
February 2011
3 posts
15 tags
Palm Pre 2 thoughts, part 2
Last of it’s kind, the Palm Pre 2 arrived in December at my office, unlocked, direct from HP.
I have been asked a dozen times why, happy with my iPhone 4, I purchased a Pre 2. The answer can be found here. It was not a joke, I firmly believed releasing unlocked hardware would help Palm. The fact that it took a near-collapse and subsequent assimilation by HP to push the new corporation...