Cycles of tech [url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2003/tc20030114_8995.htm]This article discusses the end of the program called “Graffiti.” Ah yes, my Newton. Long gone, dead to the world. I had, in order, a 120, a 2000, and I upgraded that 2000 to a 2100 or whatever it was called. Pretty cool technology. Slow on the synchronization, but being a bleeding … Cycles of tech
Clicking around on cartoons and horoscopes When I clicked [url=http://www.ojr.org/ojr/entertainment/1042169162.php]on this article, the pull-out quote read, “You can read all sorts of cartoons on the Web. Sometimes they print them up as comic books. I think, why should I buy this? I can read it online.” (From an interview with Matt Groening.) When I clicked … Clicking around on cartoons and horoscopes
What? Look: I worked most of the weekend. When I wasn’t actively reading charts, I was standing there, talking to people about charts. Or Mercury, or whatever. Jupiter. Sure. Let me say this about that. Never mind, I’m too tired to be coherent now. Look: some guy asks what your birthday is, that doesn’t mean … Monday the 13th
Fruitcakes I couldn’t shake that Jimmy Buffett (Capricorn) song, [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=fishinguideto-20&path=tg/detail/-/B000002OS8/qid%3D1042339493/sr%3D8-1]”Fruitcakes” while I was getting dressed Saturday morning. No music was on, I was just trying to figure out where the clothing was, and I wound up with simple attire, just a pressed shirt and sports jacket. But that song kept going until I stepped outside. … Fruitcakes
Austin, Texas. Or maybe, just South Austin. Yesterday morning, I was doing a reading at that place on S. First Street, and in the middle of it, a Leo feller walks up, and he just had to say how he enjoyed the [url=http://www.astrofish.net/XElvis/hotlinks.html]hotlinks, “Man, I spent about an hour going through those. You know, it … Austin, Texas.
Just another day in tough neighborhood? There was a bicycle stolen out the back of pickup in one of the complexes I’m partially responsible for. The fact that it happened in the dead of the day didn’t help. Purportedly working on an anonymous tip from a concerned individual, two officers in two squad cars were … Just another day in tough neighborhood
Graveyard at the all night copy shop & class I rolled out the other morning, full of energy, off for readings then hop a bus up to rent apartments and when the day finally closed, I wound up at the all night copy shop on Congress Avenue. I had, in hand, dozens of faxes that … Graveyard at the all night copy shop
Bandwidth and booze The local group of [url=http://www.austin-stories.com/]Austin Journal Writers is vying to host the annual journal writers’ convention, sometime next fall. In pulling together resources, particularly web resources, I webbed through the [url=http://www.dfwblogs.com/]DFW Blogs site. The Austin group? The local discussion, as of late, has centered on where to get good liquor cheap. That … Bandwidth and booze
What makes you happy? I can’t speak for other people. I was looking over my schedule a few days ago, and toying with the some [url=http://www.apple.com/isync]new software, and I was delighted that the synchronization went so smoothly but upset that it took so long. I’ve also enjoyed working with the rather narrow limits of what … What makes you happy?
