I find myself back again in a Velvet Underground phase. The Velvet Underground & Nico is on repeat.
Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
429 bits, and counting.
One of the engines on my Delta flight shut down mid-flight. Had to make an emergency landing in Vegas. Firetrucks greeted us on the ground.
Up since 4:30am taking 30-second exposures of the Las Vegas lightning storm.
It's possible that Superman 3 got me into computers. Also, Richard Pryor as a genius hacker is just the best.
Andrew Bird & Martin Dosh — "Simple X." Andrew Bird is a creative genius. He's also pretty good at live looping.
Volunteering at the Special Olympics today. Never have I felt so inspired.
Queens of the Stone Age — "Feel Good Hit of the Summer." What a great album opener. Today is a great day to listen to Rated R front to back.
It's 9pm and still really bright out. The beauty of being up north.
Woke up in Yosemite. Sleeping in Minneapolis. There's a riddle between those sentences.
Hiked up to Glacier Point in Yosemite.
Yosemite for the weekend. Armed with a rangefinder and an iPhone full of academic papers re: automated exploit generation. Should be fun.
My wife just recalled a moment when she had a pet turtle in middle school named Guido. Deep feels going on this morning.
Move fast and save things.
Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
— Rob Pike
Shoutout to the piano player at the SF Fairmont for playing Tupac's "Changes" and going into the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love."
If I could go back in time and attend a music festival in person, it would probably be Glastonbury 1994. Radiohead, Oasis, and Blur!
So many feels from the top of the Empire State Building with the X100S.
Inherited a 50 year old Konica Autoreflex picked up in the 60s by my grandfather in Japan. Shot a rare roll of XPan!
Accomplishing something valuable involves hard work. Doing hard work doesn't always result in something valuable.
Listening to the recent a16z podcast makes me wonder if MySpace was a social/brand marketplace and not a social network/utility.