A Letter Not Sent to Wired
Regarding your story about Bill Gates referring to intellectual property reformers as communists, I think the discussion should focus first on the foundations and rationales for creating IP laws. Up …
The Best I Could Do Throughout the Ages is Meticulously Catalogue My Failures
That’s what’s written at the top of a piece of notebook paper I found while digging through my old personal records and journals. It’s undated, in my hand, but doesn’t sound …
All Mod Cons
I just read a story in Wired about a company that is doing wireless home automation. It inspired technolust in me. Technolust is an abstract, irrational desire wrought by new technology. If I had a …
I Heart Technology
Wired reports that Tivo is launching a way to transfer TV shows from your recorder to your PC. They said that you will also be able to record programs to a DVD soon, but not in this launch of the …
Good Morning (Afternoon) 2005
I slept in until 9 this morning; Wendy slept to 11. We cleaned up a little, and I started roasting a turkey. It came with a huge liver, so I went online and found a recipe for paté—turned out pretty …
Goodnight 2004
No, we didn’t do any work today. We went for a walk, a figure-eight around the neighborhood. The sun was out. I cooked a roast. I played Xbox Live Halo 2 and died more than I killed. I pulled …
The Song of Sixpence
Wendy and I were going to pick up her parents from the airport, when I discovered that she didn’t know what “bagging” meant. When I was in jr. high, bagging was ridiculing someone, …
My Birthday
Yesterday was my birthday. I woke up at my mom’s house in Las Vegas. She had been in the hospital with pneumonia. She’s home again, but she’s weak. Hopefully the physical therapist …
I resolve to write every day for a year. It can be anything…book, blog, creative…something creative. Must spend 5 hours a week doing this Want to write a screenplay. Updated film noir …
Digital File Archiving This business idea has been floating around my head for a while. Our society is ill-prepared to store and sort today’s information for the future. Unless Google has found …