Archive for March, 2006
Dogma free
Hell, there are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison
Lagging
Seeing I’m up and wide awake at 7:00am and have no idea what one does at this time of day, some quick observations from my trip:
The beret is really big in San Francisco. Beret wearing in this city is more noticeable than I remember, is there a beret renaissance going on?
Mobile phone usage, other than […]
Over
I don’t want to come home!
I’m ringing the the last drop out of my internet connection in the bar at the Hilton. The Hilton by the way tried to gyp me out of over $500 USD on the hotel bill. It pays to check the bill! They were very sorry and not sure how such […]
Localisation
I must look like a local. In the last week half a dozen tourists stopped me to ask directions or help with local knowledge. Scary thing is I knew the answers.
One woman today, an American, looked a bit bemused when I returned directions to California Street in a broad Australian accent.
… and I finally found […]
Sunday Night
Dinner at Rose Pistoles at North Beach
Shrimp, mussles, sorbet
The sorbet delights
Back to the Hilton for Pernod and bed
Walking
Black men beg or huddle in doorways
Bitter winds
Cold hard desperate nights
Fourth floor windows with newspaper curtains
Stacked suitcases high on shelves
The Chinese Communist party rallies support
There is, not quite, a total lack of interest
No Pernod! America has no Pernod.
Bed.
Rose coloured WaSP
The first public annual WaSP meeting shows a not quite total lack of interest. It was less a meeting, more a self congratulatory // ego stroker // PR exercise… I wonder what the real annual meeting was like.
Also notable at this years SXSW was a panel entitled Standards Deviation and populated by some Google employees […]
On the move
I’ve abandoned the last day of eTech because the conference has in-explicably retired to a bunch of rooms which cannot accommodate all attendees! Unbelievable. One is either standing jammed into any odd crack of space or locked out simply by the lack of it. I’d be more than a little pissed off having spent a […]
I want it
…and I want it now.
Leg work
“Donald Knuth does it and so did Einstein”… as does that other prince of enlightenment Donald Rummsfeld… well now that I dwell on it, so does my barber. I think the plan needs more work.
