Getting bargains on the go just got easier, as there has been a recent proliferation of mobile coupon applications for mobile devices. The device I use almost exclusively now is the iPhone 3GS, so I’m going to talk about iPhone apps here.
Back in 2003, my partner in crime fun Adriana Lukas created an early […]
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Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
-Benjamin Disraeli, via Samizdata (yep, again!)
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Last night after my blessedly brief bout of food poisoning, I fell asleep for a few hours. Upon waking, insomnia gripped me and would not let go. I used the time to download and test a bunch of new apps for my iPhone 3GS, including some photo editing packages. My favorites: Camerabag, Photoshop, and Photo […]
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old […]
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I’m very lucky to have my own personal tour guide here - thanks to Kelly for the hook-up! - a fun soldier who’s been driving me around the island in his Jeep and getting me the hell out of Eurotrash nouveau riche-infested Waikiki. (I’m all for riche of any kind, but didn’t fly to the […]
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Hawaii is pretty, sure, but my meeting schedule for the week includes such helpfully specific “addresses” as “under banyan tree near Queen’s Surf Beach”. It’s kind of an adventure, of a very easy sort.
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I have never felt guilty of my ability. I have never felt guilty of my mind. I have never felt guilty of being a man. I accepted no unearned guilt, and thus was free to earn and to know my own value.
You can mock me for going all Randian, but I think women REALLY need […]
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My London chum Clive Davis has a new blog, where I found this great bit:
Ikea has positioned itself as a hip, green, stylish Euro-discounter, the kind of bargain barn that people who find bargain barns tacky can patronize with pleasure. [T]he Swedes are conducting a brilliant sleight-of-hand on their customers. Worse, perhaps, than its environmental […]
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FRIDAY NIGHT PHONE CALL
ME: You should go see Couples’ Retreat. I DIED laughing.
KARRI: Aw, I want to see that. I wish you were here so we could go see it together.
ME: Me, too.
An hour later, my flights to Ohio were booked. It was a much needed couple of days with my best friend. Boy, […]
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The ability to easily review new followers and then follow back or block is a killer feature here. How many of us have time to go through all of our new followers and check out who’s interesting and who’s a spam bot? TweetDeck’s now made this a breeze, as if the whole client wasn’t already […]
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I’ve been trying to make time for activities outside of work that I enjoy. (One of the hazards of being a workaholic: You can shrink your world to a very small one that encompasses only one mission. It’s exhilarating, but eventually hurts in ways large and small.)
One of these is cooking. I had one […]
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She was a Jewish refugee from France who came to the US and produced a stunning collection of street photography that at once transports the viewer back and yet manages to be shockingly current. “What’s going on here?” one has to ask.
John Maloof discovered Maier’s work after buying 40,000 of her negatives at auction […]
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The superb Harriet Meth borrows from the teachings of the late Don Hewitt and says:
[I]f you can get someone to say “I didn’t know that” you’ve done your job. You’ve created more than content. You’ve created a memorable moment.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve grown to speak in hyperlinks - quoting great blog posts and […]
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About a decade ago, I happened to see the Tebbits out together, shopping for a birthday card in a big London department store. Lord Tebbit pushed Lady Tebbit’s wheelchair, paused in front of the display of cards and discussed various likely options with her. Quiet, unflashy, in some sense totally unremarkable, the scene has stayed […]
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