I arrive at a friend’s place in Vancouver and he asks if I want to walk over and see the fireworks show. Just then a large boom. One hour to the show, and they’re signalling via a large blast. This ought to be fun!
I’m on a road trip. On a road trip, it’s important to have a car. So when the “Check [engine picture]” light went on somewhere north of Los Angeles, I studied it with particular interest. But I soon realized that it wasn’t the light itself that was important, it was the engine itself I was supposed to check. Oh dear. That’s a little trickier.
I’m not a tech review kind of guy. I just use the stuff, and don’t usually talk about it. However, since I seem to be one of the first to receive an Airport Express, I thought I’d describe setting it up, because I ran into a few things that you ought to know.
My right ear is filled with water. Not a lot of water. But tenacious water. It’s deep in there. It was driven in by a new game that Amy invented that we ended up calling Semi-Inflated Mattress Diving. It’s soon to be an Olympic demonstration sport. Perhaps “soon” is an overstatement—perhaps “never, those fools” would be a little more realistic.
If you have never made a Middle Eastern war souffle before, you can look forward to a delicious, if fragile, treat. These political tours de force, often based in an oily sauce with yellow cake and whipped voters, are easy to make if the underlying ingredients are rather carefully prepared.
Next time I’m late remembering your birthday, realize that it’s really not personal. In fact, Hop Studios had its 5th birthday on May 19th, and I plumb forgot until today.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)