If I were the President’s voice, this is the speech I would give next Wednesday.
Ladies and Gentleman, Good Evening.
Let us get straight to the point: the State of our Union is dire.
We are on a precipice and we are teetering. Our past is catching up to us, and our future is uncertain. Our politics is [...]
Tagged Obama, PoliticsI remember when I got the last payment for my Kia Rio in the mail. It was autumn 2006, and we were still living at Versailles on the Lake, which meant I picked up the mail on my way to the apartment after work.
In autumn 2006, Sonja was pregnant, we were looking to buy a [...]
Tagged Cars, Dewey, Family, Growing Up, PriusI was up until 3am last night playing Fantastic Contraption. My name is Seth and I’m an addict.
This got me started This got me interested This got me hooked. This took longer than it should have. And this one is distracting me while I try to do other things.
Tagged Fantastic Contraption, Flash Games, Games, The InternetJust returned from a short walk with my wife and daughter to drop off our absentee ballots here in Costa Mesa. There was some rain this morning, so the ground is wet and the trees are dripping, but it’s blue skies now. There was no line (it’s mid-morning; everyone is at work) but all the [...]
Tagged Costa Mesa, Election 08, Politics, VotingFor a move titled “W”, it would seem that more attention would be paid to the 43rd president.
Instead, the most interesting parts of “W” are when we get to see how those around him react to him. The narrative follows Bush the Younger (played uncannily by Josh Brolin), but in almost every scene he is–instead [...]
Tagged George W. Bush, Movie Review, movies, Oliver Stone, PoliticsA woman walks into a church. It is the kind of building evangelicals build, with minimal adornments and built to be as big as possible. It is completely empty as the preacher at the pulpit drones on.
After a while, the woman goes outside, where a huge crowd is gathered. Out of a trailer comes another [...]
Tagged dreams DavidLynch DustinThompsonObama is struggling to condense his economic policy into a sound bite. The long version:
So I asked Obama whether he thought he had been able to tell an effective story about the economy during this campaign. Specifically, I wondered, did he think he had a message that compared with Reagan’s simple call for less government [...]
Tagged PoliticsGruber point to an article that tracks down pundits who thought the iPhone would fail, and asks them what they think now.
One guy was surprised by the success. Translation: everyone else wrote that the iPhone wasn’t worth it, but fully expected it to succeed. This says something about their Jeremiah-like journalism or their complete cynicism [...]
Tagged Apple, The InternetJeff Atwood thinks that iTunes is Anti-Web:
Is it so unreasonable to expect links in your browser to resolve to, oh, I don’t know, web pages containing information about the thing you just clicked on? Is there anything more anti-web than demanding users install custom software to display information that could have just as easily been [...]
Tagged Apple, Technology, The InternetGood Idea
Setting up a family tree on Geni. It’s like a little Facebook for your relatives. You click and add your siblings, your parents, their siblings, etc. Then you can post what’s new, share photos, plan events, and all that fun stuff.
Bad Idea
Doing this when you’re my coworker from Hungary, whose wife is the youngest [...]
Tagged Family, Technology, The Internet