January 2010
4 posts
Places I slept, 2009
Houston, TX
Lansing, NY
Ithaca, NY
Baton Rouge, LA
Austin, TX
Big Bend, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Cincinnati, OH
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
Sacramento, CA
Fort Collins, CO
Near Gould, CO
Incline Village, NV
Shanghai, China
Shaoxing, China
The wonderful thing is not the number of places, but that they were seen multiple times, and involved so many friends. May 2010 bring still more.
December 2009
4 posts
10 things I learned yesterday
1. IMAX 3D shows on Tuesday evenings do sell out.
2. If someone is a good director, 10 years away from the mainstream doesn’t *have* to destroy their ability (which opposes the George Lucas principle, though that gives rise to the question of initial talent, which I will not discuss here).
3. Making Titanic doesn’t stop someone from loving science fiction.
4. Gollum really was a...
List of mobile phones I've used
A Japanese Panasonic candybar model with a monochrome screen which, being old and cheap at the time (2001) I can’t find any information about online.
Nokia J-NM02 - A model that’s very hard to find information on, but in 2002 was pretty sweet. Flip, color, camera, web, and that wonderful antenna.
Nokia 2100 - On moving to Shanghai in 2003 I bought the cheapest phone I could.
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The test of a mobile's keyboard
The test of a mobile’s keyboard is at what length of intended entry one gives up and waits until a laptop is available.
Pause.
For me, with the iPhone, that point arrives sooner than it has in the past.
Regardless of what Gruber says now about it being “good enough” or what he said at it’s introduction, regardless of how biased I may be, and how wonderful the...