Not Surprised. At All.
Your Inner European is French! Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything – at least, *you* think so. Who’s Your Inner European? Via Ritu, whose Inner European is Italian.
Month: April 2005
Would experiences come with royalties?
Um, something seems to be up with the F5 Questionlog, since this week it put out another question by me: I was rereading a short story by Orson Scott Card, called “Angles” (in the Silverberg/Haber Best of SF 2002 collection), when I ran into a machine that’s familiar to all of us, I’m sure. The […]
Book #11: The Verb For What Visionaries Do
I finished this text a week ago, but I’ve been too busy and also too stunned by it to find anything to say about it until today. Here it is… book #11 of my Lunar New Year readings: Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next 50 Years by Bruce Sterling. This is a work of futurism. Any […]
Some cool NPR stuff
Recommended by my co-worker Mike, this episode of American National Public Radio (NPR)’s This American Life is worth a listen. Did I ever mention I went to school with Jonathan Goldstein, who shows up on This American Life Sometimes? I did. And from my friend John, fun on NPR with Harvey Pekar. Anyone who tears […]
A Foretaste: What We Can Learn From The Yellow Dust From China
It’s that time of year again. If you want a good look at the future, according to the course we have set right now, this is it. Take a good look. It’s someone else’s grandfather on a bicycle, wearing a facemask. Someday, that’s going to be your grandfather—or your mother, or you—wearing a mask. Your […]