net time is hectic (sjmerc)
yes, new media enterprises work on accelerated schedules. yes, i used to work 70 hour weeks in silicon valley. yes, i know some of the people interviewed for the article (they're my clients). yes, i am trying to find that balance, too.
( Sunday, October 31, 1999)

the book maura told me i should write
except that if their website is indicative of the quality (or lack thereof) of their book, i could do a lot better.
hmmmmmm....
( Sunday, October 31, 1999)

keep it simple (herring)
"I think it's important to take a few key features, focus on them, and don't do anything else," says Mr. Hawkins, when asked about his product-design philosophies. "Somewhere along the line, somebody has to be the bad guy, somebody has to say no," Mr. Hawkins says. "At Palm, that person was me."
( Thursday, October 28, 1999)

the net is killing sf (salon)
paulina borsook pretty much hits it on the head in this piece. the internet economy is one of the results of the reagan 80s, and its spawn will be a death of social skills.
( Thursday, October 28, 1999)

the net grind evolves (nyt)
"Still, if the Internet is going to be a transforming technology, like electricity, it must spread throughout the economy and society, as it finds new uses and new customers."

"That process, inevitably, will take time. It means carefully building big Internet businesses, not just starting them. Internet "cruising speed" will become a valued skill and a competitive edge."

Well, yeah, duh. This is why I chose to take a full time at the company I did recently. They're interested in building things. As am I.
( Wednesday, October 27, 1999)

self-promotion (sort of)
thanks, kathy drouin keith, for writing this article.
( Tuesday, October 26, 1999)

tiny magazines, big influence (nyt)
i am total magazine junkie. some of those magazines mentioned in this article are found tucked under my arm as i walk home from the nice newsstand in the castro. some of them have stunning photography and solid page design work. all of them serve as models (of a sort) for side projects such as sfhipster.
( Tuesday, October 26, 1999)

are mobile phones cancer-causing? (nyt)
"A hospital study that compared brain cancer patients and a similar group without brain cancer found no statistically significant association between cell-phone use and a group of brain cancers known as glioma. But when 20 types of glioma were considered separately, an association was found between phone use and one rare form. Puzzlingly, however, this risk appeared to decrease rather than increase with greater mobile phone use."
( Tuesday, October 26, 1999)

single woman homes (nyt)
"The statistics are head-turners. Thanks to delayed marriages, profitable careers, higher divorce rates and longer lives, the number of women living alone has increased by more than a third in the last 15 years, to 30 million, according to the Census Bureau. Nearly 57 percent of single women now own their own homes, throwing cold dishwater on the accepted wisdom that homes are the exclusive territory of couples with children."
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

scotch
even his titles look good.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

sue ellen
as far as i can tell this "magazine" consists of cool looking "covers". nice.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

"where the cool people are"
well, maybe, maybe not, but it is really nice looking.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

stereo
dirty, but not pavement.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

push it back
from finland. way horizontal.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

you've seen this, right?
star wars in ascii text. it's so unbelievably cool. i check back often to see how much more is there.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

asthmatic (nyt, 1 of 3 stories)
oxygen tanks have served as the occasional accessory in my life.

as have adrenalin shots.

i also used to know what each drug was for, so by the time i was in high school i could pretty much tell an emergency room doctor who didn't know too much about asthma that i needed, say, prednisone or whatever it was.

i am far too practiced in the arts of getting needles stuck in my arm and taking pills.

perhaps that last fact is why i've never been interested in taking drugs recreationally. i've taken so many prescribed ones that a lot of the mystery is gone.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

happy!
this week i took some time off from working on projects to vacuum the wood floors and scrub the tiles. because i walk around the house barefoot.
( Thursday, October 21, 1999)

finally
frank rich gets enormous amounts of credibility for writing this nyt editorial. this country has become so unbelievably passive and complacent about culture. as in, culture doesn't really exist in america anymore, only corporate media and its regurgitation of corporate ideals and "facts".
     can you tell i am getting pretty sick of what's happening in this country?
( Saturday, October 9, 1999)

but where's carl?
"Ah. That's where you're wrong. Nobody runs things anymore. The market runs itself. It's just a coincidence that the market's interests happen to coincide exactly with the small number of people who control the vast majority of the planet's wealth. Good day!"
( Wednesday, October 6, 1999)

swoonable
rebecca gates played a solo show at the make out room here in san francisco last year. i went up to her afterwards and asked if she'd mind if i swooned. she said "go right ahead" and so i did.
( Tuesday, October 5, 1999)

goodbye astrodome (nyt)
i used to live a few blocks from the astrodome, but i never went there. it was so immense that one couldn't really get a feeling for it. i mean, it's huge.
( Sunday, October 3, 1999)

dana jean
i really like her.
( Sunday, October 3, 1999)

real commerce (nyt)
"Still, even assuming that this heady forecast proves accurate, the $185 billion will be just 7 percent of total retail sales in the United States, Forrester reports. Guess who accounts for the other 93 percent?"
( Sunday, October 3, 1999)

lucy thomas
if i were to fall in love with somebody based on what they write, this is who i would fall for. hard.
( Sunday, October 3, 1999)

standards!
okay, everybody, 1 inch = 25.4 millimeters. got that?
( Sunday, October 3, 1999)

greed! everywhere!
even the venture capitalists are bemoaning the greed in dotcom land. what a load of hypocrites.
( Sunday, October 3, 1999)