Today was an almost perfect autumn day (California variety), and we decided that it was the ideal occasion to explore one of the perks of living in Palo Alto: Foothills Park. It’s a 1,400 acre tract of rolling chaparral, woodland, and lakes, open only to Palo Alto residents and their guests(!). We parked by Boronda…
Read More Foothills ParkWeird #f1 race: lousy track, poor race control, lots of bad driving, 9 DNFs. It makes for a dramatic finale, but IMHO it's bad for the sport # RT @myinnervoice: I just signed the Contribute the Apple JDK source to OpenJ petition at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk <ditto # I'm going to a Meetup with SF Bay Area…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2010-10-31In retrospect, I've decided Dim Sum is not for me: unpredictable, and real-time decision-making interrupts conversational flow. I like menus # Grey, wet afternoon here on Palo Alto, so we're all carving pumpkins. I wonder if there's an app for that? # RT @alecmuffett, @jimfinnis: RIP Benoit Mandelbrot. Thank God he wasn't murdered. It would…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2010-10-24One of the nice things about the iPod/iPhone/iPad/iTunes ecosystem is that all my apps and other content is sharable across my devices. I can browse the iTunes Store on my Mac or my iPad, find an app that I like, buy it, and after sync’ing it will be available on my iPhone. Nifty. And to…
Read More iTunes FAILIt looks gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. The 11.6 inch model is a worthy successor to the great Apple subnotebooks which culminated in the classic 12 inch Powerbook. And yet, it comes with a CPU that’s slower than my first-generation MacBook Air. OK, the flash drive will make it feel faster (ANYTHING would beat out the original…
Read More The new MacBook AirI just received my copy of Iain M. Banks’ “Surface Detail” from Amazon. A new Culture novel. 626 pages. Mmmmm!
Read More I'm going to be a bit distracted for the next few days…Today I took delivery of an Otterbox iPad Defender case, and I bought a new iPad (64GB, Wifi + 3G). (But not from Amazon.) I’m busy restoring the backed-up data from my old 32GB iPad onto the new one, and at the same time I’m resetting the old one to virgin status. All of this…
Read More The iPad project, #1Just arrived – early – at SFO for @Unitedairlines Family Day event. Airplane pull, Blue Angels… then dinner with #flyertalk airline geeks # So why did both Rosberg and Kubica have wheels fall off? Same wheel nut supplier? Weird #f1 stuff # “@Scobleizer: In 10 minutes it will be 10:10 am on 10/10/10. I need…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2010-10-17My mother‘s 95th birthday is coming up in December, and I’m going to be visiting her in Oxford for a week. This morning I went ahead and booked the flights and rental car. I priced it out at several websites, and the cheapest was United Vacations. (I was committed to flying on United, because I…
Read More It pays to check up on thingsBloggers of all stripes have been toasting or roasting Andrew Sullivan on the occasion of the (approximate) tenth anniversary of the Daily Dish. There have been some sparkling contributions as well as several powerful indictments (sometimes in the same posting), but I particularly liked this bit from Stephen Bainbridge: Today, Andrew is leading the fight…
Read More Quote of the day: Kirk on populism