Category Observations

Viele Verbindungen

Guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren. Welcome to “Doug’s Brauhaus von Linkenarbeitsgemeinschaftigenluftenwarnungsteinen”. Tonight we are featuring a sumptuous feast of the finest in hand-picked links, personally selected by the owner. Please won’t you consider the menu? First off, we have…

An Interesting Idea For Selling Real Estate

On our way home today, my wife and I happened to see several handmade signs advertising a house, For Sale By Owner, with a unique twist: instead of pointing to some FSBO website, the signs advertised a domain name that…

A Random Act Of Factiness

I am apparently genetically predisposed towards an inability to spell “caricature” without the aid and comfort of a nearby dictionary. My mind practically screams “There’s got to be an ‘H’ in there somewhere!” Bonus Orthogonal Observation: I am unsure as…

Hometown Tragedy, Viewed From Afar

It’s been weird watching the news coverage of the Minneapolis bridge collapse from my comfortable desk on the East Coast. I spent my early years in Minneapolis (the green arrow above points roughly to my childhood home; the blue arrow…

Conference Observations

There are around 5,000 people at WWDC this year. Excluding Apple and Moscone employees, I think I have seen 25-30 women, total. The ratio of males:females is quite literally 100-150:1. It’s odd interacting with the Mac geekery, being the old…