Thanks for the ride, pup
Eleven years ago, Robin gave me a trip to California as my law school graduation gift. There really wasn’t much choice about where we’d go once we got to San Francisco: I’d visited Yosemite as a kid, and couldn’t wait to see the park again. It touched me like few places had (or have since), [...]
Blessed
A song that was in heavy rotation on “KFOG”:http://www.kfog.com/ when Robin and I were out here to do our househunt was “Blessed” by “Brett Dennen”:http://www.brettdennen.net/. I’ve since listened to all of his songs on “Rhapsody”:http://www.rhapsody.com/, and “So Much More” has become one of my favorites. In particular, a line from the song keeps resonating for [...]
Living in San Ramon
The moving truck arrived yesterday morning and unloaded our stuff into the new house. It’ll take a while for us to get settled, but we could not be more thrilled to be in San Ramon. I have a gorgeous view of “Mt. Diablo”:http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517 from the front of the house, and the Livermore hills to the [...]
Traveling with pets - fly Continental
Among the thousand and one things we need to nail down before actually moving to California (estimated time of departure: 2 weeks away) is getting our dog out to California. When we moved to Chicago over six years ago, it was touch-and-go: American Airlines will not fly pets if either city in the trip will [...]
Irony
I’m too tired to give this entry the proper sarcasm it deserves, but let me try and be brief:
Dear Comcast, if I call to order your service, try not to talk me out of actually, you know, ordering your service just because my new home’s address isn’t in your database. Maybe do a little actual [...]
Lost Season Finale
Uh, whoa.
Couple questions:
When Jack was in the hospital and was confronted by the chief surgeon, he yelled: “Get my father down here, right now. If I’m drunker than him, you can fire me.” But this is supposed to be in the future. And Jack’s Dad died before the flight took off, before he was on [...]
Great tracking shots
If you’re a film buff, you absolutely have to stop what you’re doing and go visit “this page”:http://dailyfilmdose.blogspot.com/2007/05/long-take.html, a collection of some of the great tracking shots in film. To the ones on that page, I’d add (as others in the comments noted) “The Contender”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXP7/104-3821214-6457568?ie=UTF8&tag=tins-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00003CXP7 and “Swingers”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006ADFY/104-3821214-6457568?ie=UTF8&tag=tins-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00006ADFY.
And do yourself a favor: while the tracking shot [...]
Interview on Total Picture Radio
Last month at “SES”:http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/, I sat down with “Peter Clayton”:http://www.totalpicture.com/ to talk about FeedBurner. The “interview”:http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/468/1/ ended up covering far more ground than I expected; how I got my job at FeedBurner, how I hired “Eric”:http://www.ericjohnolson.com/ and “Jake”:http://www.jakeparrillo.com/, the guy who got me into blogging (”John Robb”:http://globalguerillas.typepad.com/), “Daemon”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/04/03/daemon.php, search engine optimization, FeedBurner’s growth, and much [...]
Gordon Biersch comes to Illinois
Robin told me last night we had to get something at Ikea before we could get on with our night out. (Be honest, what good date doesn’t start with a trip to Ikea?) But as we got close, she turned into the new mall area anchored by Macy’s, and much to my surprise, there it [...]
Elizabeth Edwards on today’s tragedy
I’ve heard remarkable things about this woman, and “these words”:http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/4/16/211240/384 only support them. What a gift for reocgnizing the grief, the sorrow, and the unthinkable traumas that the families, and roommates, and classmates are all going through… and then for ultimately identifying that we all share an obligation to fix whatever’s broken in our society [...]
