April 2008
a floating flock of gulls rise and fall with the incoming tide.
March 2008
shopping for organic sunscreen to be applied to bright red sunburnt kids.
a couple millimeters of plate glass separates my Frank Lloyd Wright inspired workplace from a sunny blue & blustery beachscape. surf sounds.
Thursday at 30,000 feet, i let a best selling author and makeup expert use my webcam to adjust her lipstick.
…fortified w/ burritos.
in a minivan w/ 3 kids, 1 dog, 1 parrot, 3 adults & me, beachward bound.
overcome with just feeling good.
putting the 30 year old in the car, to go collect the 6 year old, then driving to clay class.
trying to decide who is sillier and more ridiculous, the 30 year old or the 6 year old. leaning toward the former, but it’s a real race.
if you cast the passengers on this BART car for “a quirky character-driven play set on the subway”, i’d say you should tone it down a li …
on the ground a few thousand miles west of where i started, walking a few thousand feet towards my duffle bag.
riding towards del Norte, should arrive there 1227am.
spent the past few hours talking to a best selling author.
awaiting take off from Phoenix. scored a nice exit row seat.
needless to say, a desktop email client on the laptop with wireless Internet beats the hell out of futzing with email on the tiny mobile.
killing time in the shuttle, i was trying out “Mobile Email” on Voyager phone. works as advertised. haven’t decided about it’s usefulness.
in the shuttle and on the move, westward bound.
compressing my life and work in a duffle bag and medium backpack.
downloading WiFi sniffer applications, wondering which to use on a new Intel Mac. http://tinyurl.com/2w6hoe
decided to try out both Airport Radar 1.2 (simple dashboard widget) and iStumbler 98 (more stats, features, geekier).
up since 3am yesterday, fading fast.
iStumbler →
VersionTracker product info
Common Craft →
“Explanations In Plain English … Our product is explanation. We use a simple format and real-world stories to make sense of complex ideas.”
Twitter in Plain English →
perhaps the best explanation i’ve seen yet of Twitter. by CommonCraft.com
MacStumbler →
VersionTracker product info
AirPort Radar →
VersionTracker product info
PocketTweets →
Twitter For Your iPhone
KisMAC →
“passive stumbler for Mac OS X”
TheMacMommy.com →
“You should listen to your motherboard”
MacStumbler →
“a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points. It is mainly designed to be a tool to help find access points while traveling, or to diagnose wireless…
KisMAC →
VersionTracker product info
“Twitter in Plain English”, the video now linked on Twitter’s login page, is the best Twitter intro i’ve seen. from http://CommonCraft.com
some tech you read about and say “cool!” but the first time you experience it, you say “magic!” high speed internet in a moving car = magic!
imagine Muxtape (or equivalent) on a mobile phone/device that can handle this kinda web app & bandwidth. that changes the music ecosystem!
listening on MacBook Pro built-in speakers, this really sounds pretty fab! (until the stream hiccups.) http://hooverfactory.muxtape.com
driving into the countryside, testing Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess Internet service.
wow! i have more than one @AreAitch mix tape in this car. but never has one been delivered to me for review while driving.
Bay Shuttle →
Bay Area airport shuttle service - “Door-to-door Airport Shuttle”
SFtravel.com →
“San Francisco Underground Travel - Brutally Honest Reviews of Hotels, Restaurants, Activities, and Transportation”
SFO Shuttles.com →
“San Francisco Airport Shuttle and Limousine Reviews Including Oakland and San Jose … the brutally honest, independent San Francisco guide dedicated to providing you with convenient, reasonably…
GroundNet →
“an international consortium of airport shuttle providers”
SuperShuttle.com →
airport shuttle service
The Airport Shuttle, Inc. →
serves BWI
booking travel details for the next 3 weeks (Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Tucson, Los Angeles, Studio City, Burbank). much juggling.
<orc voice> work complete! </orc voice> next? breakfast burritos at Anita’s!
in the black predawn, coffee & bagel powered, i drive toward metropolis.
the predawn darkness cannot mask the artificial twilit sprawl of suburbia.
Muxtape →
“Make mixtapes that play anywhere”
staying one more (abbreviated) night, about to doze off with the door open, so i can hear the surf.
Costume Patterns →
RedDawn.net — “These are all pretty basic instructions. They will show you how to measure out simple garments and assemble them. “