I feel awful for posting about this a week late, but I still feel like I need to say something, so here goes...
Last weekend, Richard Bluestein, the man behind Madge Weinstein, the queen of queer podcasting, lost his partner Juan Montealegre to cancer. Until last week, Juan was known only ...
February 20th 2006
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I've been delaying posting an update to my speed dating adventure in the hopes that I'd have something a bit more exciting to report, but at 3 weeks out it appears that the Hurry Date (tm) story is pretty much a closed case. Keep in mind that the excitement of ...
February 1st 2006
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So, as I said, I went speed dating last night through Hurry Date (tm). After much nervousness on my part, I'm happy to report that it was really fun, and not at all the disembowling trainwreck that I had feared. Well, no trainwreck yet, anyway. As you'll see, the results ...
January 31st 2006
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1) Tonight, I'm going speed dating.
2) Next week, Erwin and I are starting Barry's Bootcamp.
As you'll note, talking to strangers and regular exercise are out of character for me. I'm trying to reboot my 2006 by fooling it into thinking I'm someone else. You know, someone who exercises regularly and ...
After mulling it continuously for the better part of two years, I finally broke down and decided - a week before the deadline - to apply to NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. It's a two year graduate program in media technology / social technology / art and technology / etc. ...
O'Reilly Radar has a roundup of some very smart people (including Tim O'Reilly, as a publisher) debating the issues surrounding Google Print and the notion of whether it's fair use or not, and whether the Interweb has really become lawless or not, and how publishing is quickly following the music ...
June 23rd 2005
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The Washington Post prematurely posts its obituary/retirement package for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist
It made me pause for a moment to think that, for some people, the line between retirement and death is just a slash.
True brilliance is when you say something that makes others think "yes, of course; why hadn't I thought of that?"
I just read an amazing article on Douglas Adams' site, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, published in 1999, that is amazingly prescient in regards to a ...
Well that was fast. After just three weeks, I have pulled out of FleshBot (so to speak). Suffice it to say that I'm extremely busy, and the research and writing was weighing me down. I just don't think that porn is my destiny, in any form, tho I'm wondering if ...
The ocean, for the first time since I've worked within walking distance of it (2 weeks). It was absolutely gorgeous - sunny and windy, creating really nice waves.
Seagulls playing in the wind. There were a few who really seemed to like flying into the wind, which would cause them to ...