September, 13, 2004 archives

i need to write up more about foo camp ’04, but one thought: i have a hard time imagining a better conference to be invited to participate in if you are looking for a job. there were a number of folks from cool companies (big and not so big, and everything in between) that were exactly the people you would want to have a relationship with so you could jump the job applicant queue.

my flight returning from foo camp (sfo to lax) was on a 767. it brought me international-flight flashbacks, especially when the person in front of me cranked their seat back. economy class just doesn’t feel as much like cattle class on a 737 or md-80 compared to how it feels on a 767.

i read the curious incident of the dog in the night by mark haddon on the way back from foo camp. it’s told from the point of view of christopher, a 15-year old autistic boy who discovers his neighbor’s dog killed with a garden fork.

for a character that can’t empathize with anyone else, it is surprisingly easy to empathize with christopher. the book does an amazing job of putting you inside the head of an autistic child.

this reuters article about the proposal to mostly-destruct the old ambassador hotel says it is to build a school in “crowded downtown neighborhoods.”

news flash: the ambassador hotel is out near wilshire and western. that ain’t downtown.

after meeting joshua schachter at foo camp, i decided that i should take another look at del.icio.us, which he created. i’d consider it a bit of a spiritual cousin of blo.gs, in that it is basically not-for-profit, and a way for him to blow off creative steam.

here’s my del.icio.us page, which i may at some point figure out a way to incorporate here.

i am definitely planning on revamping the crude category system i wrote for this blogs to be tag-based. tags are what all the cool kids are doing these days.