Today is the 31st wedding anniversary of my dear friends Robert and Karen. (If I’d realized, I would have given them a present when I saw them in LA last week!) I’ve never known a man more devoted to his wife than Robert is, and the story of how they came together to create their […]
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I average one trip to the cinema per year. But I went twice this weekend. Well, when in Hollywood…
I saw two films that I enjoyed hugely. But I am not going to embed or even link to their trailers, because if you see them, you have little reason to see the movies. If you really […]
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Bhaskar and I are throwing a Qik-up (as opposed to Qikking a throw-up? Hmm…) in the West Village on Saturday night. If you’re a Qik user and/or in town for the Personal Democracy Forum, come throw back some drinks with us! All details here.
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Robert & me
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I attended the Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture at Young Israel of Century City. It was my first time in shul, and fortunately for me - a non-Jew in an Orthodox synagogue - I did not make any hideous faux pas (that anybody pointed out to me). I may technically […]
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Apart from spending lots of time in airports and hotels, I mean.
Note that this was shot with the secondary camera on the Nokia N95, as opposed to the 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens that sits on the other side of the phone - hence the difference in quality between this video and the […]
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When I was a kid, getting to hang out at a Hollywood studio lot would have really seemed like a big, fun deal. I’m still enough of a hick to get a kick out of such things, but my focus is now…elsewhere. Doing little videos like this is my way of stopping and smelling the […]
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Any wonder why I love my work?
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On Monday night, Chris Yeh picked me up from work and then we picked up his daughter from day care, picked up his wife and son at home, and headed to a restaurant called - steady yourselves, Brits - Armadillo Willy’s. (The kids picked.)
In the car, our conversation ranged from hiking, country music and […]
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He’s also Mr. MAXroam and Mr…Well, the less said about that for now, the better. But me old mucker Pat Phelan is going to be talking to IT@Cork on Thursday about how he and some friends launched Twitterfone for some pocket change, with no marketing or PR budget, and had a gigantic hit on their […]
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I loved this record (I Know Enough by theaudience [sic]) when it came out A DECADE AGO, and used to play it about a hundred times a day. I posted a brief snippet of the video - now in its entirety, via YouTube - several months ago, and I’m still obsessed with it! It is […]
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Adriana has a very moving post to follow up the picture I posted below with her quotation.
By trying to describe the suffering of many thousands, they miss the opportunity to make us feel the suffering of one, to put ourselves in their place, imagine our lives being arbitrarily and brutally torn apart. And to […]
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House of Terror
Originally uploaded by Adriana Lukas.
Brute force gets evil in the door, twisted minds keep it in the house.
-Adriana, photoblogging from the House of Terror in Budapest (more background here)
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This past week, I was that sort of sick where the cold meds made me feel worse, because they turned my brain to mush. I have very rarely gotten sick over the last couple of years, which is good, because I do not cope well at ALL with being unwell, for all sorts of reasons […]
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This morning, Qik announced support for Windows Mobile phones. Since Qik’s launch in November, it’s been available only on Nokia smartphones from the S60 series, so this is a nice bit of expansion for us. Motorola Q and Samsung BlackJack users can apply to take part in the invite-only alpha (email me if you’re interested […]
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