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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Virginia Postrel and Hedy Lamar

Monday, August 31, 2009

About 15 minutes in Virgina shows Hedy for the third or fourth time as an example of glamour, and then drops the anecdote that she invented spread spectrum technology. According to Wikipedia she’s a co-inventor. Damn. Let Virginia tell it.

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5 whys

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Does anybody even bother asking why ENOUGH times? Why is Google on top? Search Why is search so important? People have questions and search is one way of getting answers? (there are legion other ways, including browse, invention, and non sequitur) Why are answers so valuable? They are the most rational, comprehensible way of alleviating [...]

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How it do in LA

Saturday, August 29, 2009

I’ve long been fascinated with the myth and reality of Los Angeles. I am reading an article about Helen Gurley Brown (author Sex and the Single Girl, cosmopolitan magazine), and I came across thus quote about the city of her maturation, “There is no better place on Earth to live (or die) by your wits [...]

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Slacker

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Sat in my room in the afternoon watching Slacker. It made me nostalgic for Lexington, and Frankfort KY before it. Doesn’t make me want to move to Austin though. I’m sure Seattle was Austin-like at some point. Where am I now, what am I doing now. I think I started working so that I could [...]

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We are not like you.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

The New York Times has a pretty cool interactive infographic on how people (Americans as presumed by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics) spend their time. How Different Groups Spend Their Day Notice that it doesn’t say anything like “Discussing today’s NPR topics” “Preparing locavore ethnic cuisines for 12,” “p-patching” or any of that “Stuff [...]

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