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It’s been a while since I posted photos, but the cameras haven’t been idle. I’ve been keeping in practice both with the Nikon and the phonecam (since I don’t always remember to keep the Nikon handy). Check out this highlights series, featuring my voting booth photo, the first snow, a cold afternoon at Downtown Crossing [...]

Boing Boing: Darrin Perry: in memoriam. Perry led the 2002 redesign of WIRED magazine, which freshened the look and feel of the aging geek bible while making it more legible.
Of all the information in the obituary, the most surprising part for me was that he was born in Madison County, North Carolina, where my father’s [...]

…but fellow Hooblogger Jeff Hawkins does it better for me:

First, ABC broadcasts Virginia-Virginia Tech nationwide, and we repay the favor by having a score of 0-0 at half. Switch to the second half where we take a nice lead and the refs see their way to switching momentum with the worst called non-interference play I’ve [...]

We just saw my in-laws off, back to New Jersey. It was a fabulous weekend with far too much food, including last night’s clam chowder and salmon with “Asian glaze” (soy, hoisin, brown sugar, ginger, hot pepper) followed by homemade pie (lemon meringue). Now that they’re on the road the house is quiet, and will [...]

Boston Globe: Gigantic steps. I read this article with some interest. It’s rare that you see artists come out with a bare statement of fact about the purpose for reunion tours, like the one Frank Black made at the end of the article:

“We’ve had this chip in our back pocket for a long time, and [...]

Grr! I was all set to waste an afternoon watching the Virginia–Virginia Tech game, which the VirginiaSports site assured me was televised on ABC, until I checked our local listings. There was a college football game on ABC at 1, all right… but it was Syracuse vs. Boston College.
And none of our 400-something channels are [...]

Not shopping today? Here’s a bunch of stuff that you can do to feel productive. (Me, I’ll be agonizing over the design of this year’s Christmas card.)

Publish a PC Outlook Calendar to .Mac
Try out Autocompleter, software that works in every Cocoa text view to finish words and expand shortcuts.
Or i-Search, another Cocoa plug-in that makes [...]

As I sit down to make notes after my first Thanksgiving dinner as family head chef, one question runs through my mind: How the hell did Julie Powell make complete and entertaining stories out of cooking meals—for a year? I can barely remember two hours ago when we ate the meal, much less when I [...]

Today I’m thankful for a whole bunch of things, including:

My wonderful wife
My family, including my amazing mother, who’s on a pilgrimage to Guatemala this week—this being the first time she’s been out of the country in 30 years
My in-laws who are with us enjoying the day
Our dogs, who have I think finally given up on [...]

I haven’t surveyed my friends and neighbors in the blogosphere for a while, and there have been some developments:

Tony Pierce: a little housekeeping for your ass. Tony reports that Blook II is done, and that he may have advance copies for ordering shortly.
And it looks like the book buzz is catching, as Scott Rosenberg [...]

Both “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” and the Complete U2 digital box are available right now from the iTunes Music Store. And what’s catching my attention right now is the latter. All the rarities can be bought by the song, and there are some real rarities, including the Another Day and U23 singles that [...]

I received an email this morning letting me know that it would be a “Perfect Day” to shop at the Apple Store either at retail or online on Friday the 26th, the day after Thanksgiving, to get “the perfect gift on the perfect day at the perfect price.” What’s interesting is the price match part, [...]

The More Cowbell blog brings you Have Yourself A Merry Indie Christmas. Yes, it’s early, but consider it a public-service reminder to start working on your Christmas cards.

Oliver Willis engages on a one-man branding campaign for the Democratic Party. I think he’s really onto something here. The Dems have tried to be so many things to so many people for so long, the core message has gotten diluted. This is a good way to bring it back—combinations of evocation of famous Democrats [...]

Plastic: Papa Wemba Running A Congo Line. Seems that one of the finest musicians on the world stage has been using his fame to bring his countrymen into France illegally, charging them $4,500 a pop for the privilege. Decidedly uncool.