Author: Jon

Pirates of the Caribbean

We (finally) went and saw “Pirates of the Caribbean” tonight. It was a lot of fun, I liked it. Johnny Depp was, frankly, amazing. Go see it, if it’s still in theaters where you’re at.

Broken email prognostication

I’ve been reading a lot about how email is broken these days—articles here, here and here are examples—and interestingly, I came across the following passage in Cryptonomicon (published in 1999) that I thought was apropos: “I hate e-mail,” John says. Harvard Li stares him in the eye for a while. “What do you mean?” “The… Continue reading Broken email prognostication

Article on blogging

Interesting story on weblogs here. Good introductory overview on blogging, worth reading if you’re new to it and are curious, and even if you’re not.

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Gradual

Obviously I’ve not been very motivated to write much lately. I’m up to my elbows in Cryptonomicon and loving it, so that’s been eating up much of my free time. But today I updated several parts of the site, most notably the ebooks page, where I’m rolling out a better layout and feature set for… Continue reading Gradual

Bye bye, UPN

As reported on bend.com and confirmed on our local cable provider BendCable’s website, BendCable has dropped UPN entirely. Apparently BendCable didn’t want the competition from a new UPN-affiliate that’s scheduled to launch here in January 2004. So, they got pissy and as of now, UPN channel 12 is off the air. The only show I… Continue reading Bye bye, UPN

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How to Win a Barfight

Another fun little tidbit reprinted from a friend’s daily “Survival” calendar. Most state laws stipulate that you may use sufficient force to stop the attack, but you may not deliver any sort of punitive retribution to your attacker. Knowing this may save you a costly trip to court. Attack the most sensitive areas of your… Continue reading How to Win a Barfight

Not Your Father’s Sesame Street

When you have young children, you get exposed to a lot of children’s television programming, well beyond the Muppets and Sesame Street of yesteryear. Most of these are good, educational, well thought-out and well written shows, perfect for kids, but if you watch too many of them as an adult—as I do—you begin wish you… Continue reading Not Your Father’s Sesame Street

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More Fun Links

A large part of the process of writing, I think, is just throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks. Doesn’t matter if you’re writing online content (like blogs), or fiction, or news, or whatever. Anyway. Some more fun links from around the Web. Tha Shizzolator is another one of those goofy translator sites, only… Continue reading More Fun Links