http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress Are you with me? Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:46:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the second phase of the big move is now underway: I'm back in Missouri (where it is a brutal 95 degrees, obviously in my honor—though it's not much cooler in the NYC area), having returned yesterday to collect the cats and oversee the move. Right at this moment I'm ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2008/07/20/priceless-advice/ For months and more, I've been wavering about whether or not to just delete the whole blog, to leave it here for posterity (an addition to the world's growing collection of ghost blogs), or to revive it. I'm still not sure what I'll do, but since I am wandering again ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2008/07/03/peripatetic-again/ Salon's campaign coverage has been very disappointing lately; there's been a strong undercurrent of Hillary-worship, a tendency to ignore everyone but Obama and Clinton (just like the mainstream media), and in the last week, a remarkably lame bit of bandwagon-shifting from "We <heart> Hillary" to "We loved Obama all along." ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/our-alternative-media-at-work/ I need to vent for a moment. To wit: I was sitting here minding my own business and looking for some information on the Website of one of the several professional organizations in my world, and I noticed that they were plugging their new social networking site, which is sort ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/no-fair-2/ So I joined a CSA this year. All organic produce, grown about 30 miles away. So far, it's been pretty good, although it has stricter work requirements than the one I belonged to back in Mpls.* Actually, it's been very good; it's just that I've been kinda bad. I guess ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2007/08/02/summers-bounty/ My iPod appears to be horked. All of my songs have mysteriously disappeared, though their space on the drive has not--the menu says 0 songs, 4.5 GB (out of 20) available. I'm going to try a couple of possible fixes at home tonight, but I'm guessing that I'm screwed, based ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2007/07/26/uh-oh/ There's a question on my profile page over at LiveJournal that asks: "How did you spend summers when you were a kid?" I decided that question deserved a longer-ass answer than I was prepared to post on LiveJournal. It's started to get hot here, and my summer isn't off to a ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2007/07/06/summers-past/ So some years ago, I saw a short travel feature on some cable channel or other about an island town in Italy where all the houses were painted bright, vivid colors, and anyone wanting to paint their house had to request approval from the local government. It looked like an ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2007/05/16/burano/ Well, phooey. I went to the IA Summit, met some amazing people, had some inspiring conversations, saw some excellent presentations (along with, admittedly, a few fairly mundane ones), and came back feeling revitalized and glad to be doing what I do for a living, which was especially refreshing after the ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/this-that-and-stuff/ ...is "30 Rock." Or more accurately, it's the best thing on broadcast TV. (The best thing on TV is "The Wire," even when it's between seasons, as it is now.) I never expected to like this show. I haven't watched "Saturday Night Live" in years—decades, even—so I don't know Tina ... http://www.lynxpoint.com/wordpress/2007/03/01/the-best-thing-on-tv/