This morning I was sitting outside of “my” Starbucks (the closest one to our home) and observed an elderly man, seemingly of modest means, sitting at a table about 10 feet in front of me. Then I looked to my
(Possibly) hiring again
As Involution Studios continues to pick up steam, it looks like we might need another graphic designer/front-end developer (read: excellent at CSS, XHTML, and Javascript, open to picking up the last few skills to provide AJAX functionality, too) in the
Either I’m getting old or Muzak is getting cooler
Today I had a first appointment with a new dentist. As I was waiting in the chair, I became aware of the music gently playing through the office: it was Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd, from one
Morality and the lessons of youth
Yesterday, the ride validator at the train station wasn’t working. It would have been a simple matter for me to get on the train without the validation, since I was only traveling one stop and they would almost certainly not
My first foreword
I recently had the chance to see a foreword that I’d written for a book that is now officially in print. I’ve seen plenty of things that came from my own hand in print, but to be asked to provide
The power of the CalTrain
When Fran and I aren’t riding to work together I take the CalTrain. Our house is right behind the Diridon station in San Jose, and the Invo offices are a 15 minute walk from the Santa Clara station. So it
Saturday at the Stanford Theater
There are a lot of perks that come with living in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Stanford Theater is definitely one of them: an old-world movie palace, faithfully preserved by the heirs of the Packard (of Hewlett-Packard fame) family
Video content to meet lifestyle needs
Does it strike anyone else that the current model of creating DVDs (read: groups of thoughtlessly bundled content) that provide the linear “every single episode” model is not particularly usable or desirable? I mean, how much of a specific show
Planning and building: the craft of design
Guess who said: “I’m engaged in a specific job, to tell a certain story, with a certain group of people, and the work is details. The work is problem solving. The work is steady application of your energy and intellect
Late to the Four Things party
Got the invites a week or three ago, here are my tardy contributions to the Four Things meme (credit to my pal Peter): Four Jobs I’ve Had (none of which you’d probably guess I’ve done) 1. Nude model 2. Knife