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The Curious Career of Martin Brest

by Dirk October 10, 2010

This week, during my interminable illness, I watched (among many others) the movie Midnight Run. A good-but-not-great “buddy movie” from the 1980′s it was entertaining and endearing in superficial and schmaltzy sort of way. When I watch movies I spend as much time on IMDB doing meta-research about the movie and the people in it [...]

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When lonely, I sometimes watch (a lot of) movies

by Dirk August 16, 2010

I’m marooned in Boston for the past week and next couple weeks with nary friends nor family to comfort me. The good news is I’m getting a lot of work done, writing a lot, and watching a ridiculous number of movies (I’m a multi-tasker). So, here are short reviews on all the movies I watched [...]

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My bucket list

by Dirk June 6, 2010

One of our clients, MeYou Health, has a program for improving your well-being. Partly to support the client and partly because I want to improve my own well-being, I’m participating. For now. Until or if it becomes too onerous. The assigned task for today is to create a bucket list. I interpret this as things [...]

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Boxing, car phones and memories

by Dirk May 15, 2010

I’m watching the documentary Muhammad and Larry (it’s pretty good, definitely recommended for anyone who likes boxing or Ali). Well, they show Larry Holmes in 1980 driving around in a big, audacious red car with a car phone! And, perhaps not surprisingly, it was a big-ass phone, just like you would have in your house [...]

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Wishing for better “news” and “reporting”

by Dirk September 21, 2009

Today I stumbled upon an exceptional three-part series analyzing the safety of trendy new sweeteners Truvia and PureVia. Both are derived from “natural ingredients” and I was thus intrigued by their safety or risks, which led me to these articles. In reading all three of them in breathless succession I was struck by how they [...]

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Forgotten by history

by Dirk April 4, 2008

When I was younger, I wanted to be famous. Not so much famous-for-famous-sake, but more because I intuitively understood that through fame I could stretch my essence beyond the bounds of my physical life, in some clumsy way thus living beyond my actual lifespan. This greatly eased my fear of death and gave me something [...]

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Time and change

by Dirk May 8, 2007

In recent weeks I’ve had neither the interest nor energy to do any writing beyond what is absolutely necessary in a professional context. And its a shame, for I’m in a really lovely little professional place: working with clients and co-workers that I enjoy, designing or directing some really interesting products, and immersed in the [...]

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Musing on inevitabilities and unanswerable questions

by Dirk April 1, 2007

I go through most of my life in what I can only term a sleepwalking emotional state. This is a coping mechanism. My emotional receptors are naturally hyperactive: I both take in too much of what is happening around me, and I internally contextualize the many inputs around Big and Difficult Questions that are central [...]

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Rainy November round-up

by Dirk November 13, 2006

Recently back from the St. Louis User Experience (STLUX) Conference and feeling unabashed bliss at the prospect of spending the next six weeks comfortably here at my Silicon Valley home. A number of quick hits about myriad recent happenings: * I really enjoyed STLUX. Being a regional (as opposed to a national) conference, it introduced [...]

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Saturday at the Stanford Theater

by Dirk February 14, 2006

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 fortune, screening classic old movies on a weekly basis, complete with an old organ that [...]

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