March 2012
2 posts
Your Catfish Friend
If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It’s beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I’d love you and be your catfish friend and drive such...
In The Dust
I have no better words to describe today’s new Apple toy than these.
It seems to me that the iPad is so far ahead of its competition, that the mobile industries are no longer laptops, smartphones and tablets, but laptops, smartphones and iPads. And perhaps there is no demand for tablets at all, perhaps all people want are the shiny slates of glass that comes from a mysterious dome in...
January 2012
1 post
Goodbye, Textbooks
Today the mothership announced new iBooks textbooks, and a new iTunes U. It’s pretty cool, just on the outside, but it only takes a little imagination to imagine what might be possible.
Education is something that has been rather unchanged in centuries. It’s still a group of kids, in one room, with one teacher, and one textbook.
For the first time, in a long time, somebody has the...
December 2011
1 post
“Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
– Einstein
November 2011
2 posts
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
Thoughts about Inspiration
Inspiration is a funny thing. Sometimes you go weeks without it. Sometimes it comes to you just when you’re thinking about how nothing is coming to you. And sometimes you start writing about something and then you forget. That’s a bitch.
The sad thing about writing about not being inspired is that you can only do it once, because it’s lame to rewrite things again. It’s...
October 2011
4 posts
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Madness
What other company has people lining up for hours to pay $700 for a phone… Multiple days in a row?
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
4S
Most people seem to be dissappointed by the today’s new iPhone, how it’s such a small change from the iPhone 4.
Sometimes I feel that too, but think about how you would change it, how you would improve it. So perhaps it’s not a disappointment after all, but a testament to the iPhone 4’s greatness.
In any case, Apple stock seems to fall every time they announce an event where they don’t...
August 2011
2 posts
Favourite Friends
Recently, Facebook introduced a new sidebar for chat. Now, despite how you feel about Facebook’s constant changes, I’m interested in something else. Zuckerberg’s design choices are a conversation for a different day.
Try this. Shrink your Facebook window vertically and you might notice something. There are less people in your contact list! Of course, that isn’t much of a surprise, but look...
A New Slate
It’s been a while since I posted anything to Tumblr, so today I deleted everything that I wrote before, and I thought I’d start something new.
In grade school, the first few pages of my workbooks were always extraordinarily neat and clean. They were a blank slate on which anything was possible. A place where nothing had been said, no judgements made, and no precedents to uphold. It...