“Hi, I’m Evan.”
“That’s my brother’s name. [signs book] Nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you, too.”
[we shake hands]
November 19, 2006
August 28, 2006
A Proverb
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I listened to an Alan Watts lecture today titled “NYC as Manifestation of Avalokiteshvara” [1]. I loved this short proverb he told:
“Kindly let me help you, or you’ll drown,” said the monkey, putting the fish safely up a tree.
It reminds me of a John Cage piece whose title I think of often:
__Diary: How to Improve the World, You’ll Only Make Matters Worse_._
And, of course, Avalokitesvara is the inspiration for my favorite photo of Jean Cocteau [2].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokitesvara
[2] http://www.magnanirocca.it/cocteau/photo/cocteau-mani-g.jpg
July 1, 2006
I went to a very cool design show [1] yesterday @ lunch. These were my favorite things there.
The tile toy [2] (was what i knew about & interested me in the show), briefcases as drawers (this is a great idea) [3], laptop backlights as lighting [4], people who “print” onto/into concrete [5], the elemental kitchen (not maybe so practical, but definitely NICE) [6], and what i will just call the “smell bubbles” [7].
Hope you enjoy @ least one of them.
ciao,
E
[1] http://www.saumadesign.net/
[2] http://www.saumadesign.net/tammenpaa.htm
[3] http://www.saumadesign.net/Aalto.htm
[4] http://www.saumadesign.net/suppanen.htm
[5] http://www.saumadesign.net/naamanka.htm
[6] http://www.saumadesign.net/Vesmanen.htm
[7] http://www.saumadesign.net/kozari.htm
April 3, 2006
Reading this piece on mobilecrunch is disappointing.
It’s not disappointing to me that someone might want to install a snooper on someone else’s cellphone. It isn’t disappointing that there are legal implications to using this software. It even isn’t that disappointing that other people feel that THEY _HAVE_ to *STOP* the terrorists.
It’s disappointing that this has to be marketed in this way. This software is one-of-a-kind. It’s interesting. It solves a problem that isn’t solved in any other way. How can I, a cellphone user (and mobile software developer) view my call logs on a website? How can I lookup who I messaged last week about such and such? I can’t. The packages that carriers provide are all hodge-podge and mostly useless in this regard. The data is obviously the user’s– why can’t they see it? (They’ll get to see some more of it on their bill, if they’re lucky, but disregard that for now.)
The phones are capable of it. The networks are capable. The web is definitely capable. But, the only people doing anything about it are forced to sell their software as “spy” software. And we’re chastising them for it.
Shame on us.
April 3, 2006
I was sitting at the diner counter today waiting for my food to arrive. A man sitting next to me got up to leave and left his newspaper behind. His seat was quickly taken by an older gentleman. He sat down and was trying to get someone to take the newspaper from him. I started to tell him that he could put it in the little cubby-hole under the counter when he successfully pawned it off on a kid sitting on the other side of him.
He finally understood what I was trying to tell him and said,
“I was going to sell it to him. You should keep quiet.”
(In a joking-but-not manner.)
February 22, 2006
Our customer service guy just hung up the phone and said, “15 year olds should not have lawyers.”
February 19, 2006
A 3 dollar kaleidoscope made for a GREAT trip to the toystore today.
Now, ridiculous photographs of Turla are even EASIER to churn out.
February 4, 2006
I just spoke with Mike Battle, the man who invented the Echoplex, on the phone.
He made a new model (the Tubeplex) in the last few years and sells tapes that work in both it and the vintage ones on ebay. I bought a tape, hoping it would fix the woes of my recently scavenged Echoplex EP-2 (tube unit w/ Sound-on-Sound). The ebay auction had his name and number in it. And, my Echoplex has plenty wrong with it, so I gave him a call.
I told him which Echoplex I had (�oh, that’s the best model.�), and asked if he did, indeed, repair them (�Well i built it!� ).
He repeated several times, “I’ll put it new.�
So excited. I’ll ship it to him tomorrow.
Repair list:
- Missing original box.
- Missing faceplate.
- Sound-On-Sound does nothing.
- Tape doesn’t seem to erase well.
- Movable head doesn’t slide well, wires seem loose.
- One part in back looks particularly fried.
- Hole on front could use a plug.
- Are either of these knobs original?
January 25, 2006
I just walked around the corner and the local news vans were all hovering around Pixar, uploading their casts for the evening.
Disney shuffled over 7.4 billion in stock to buy Pixar today.
January 15, 2006
