Up since 4:30am taking 30-second exposures of the Las Vegas lightning storm.
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.
524 bits, and counting.
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.
Somewhere over the US.
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 boy having a lazy Sunday afternoon.
My wife just recalled a moment when she had a pet turtle in middle school named Guido. Deep feels going on this morning.
Lazy Saturday.
Move fast and save things.
Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
— Rob Pike
Wheels up LAX.
Shoutout to the piano player at the SF Fairmont for playing Tupac's "Changes" and going into the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love."
A perfect retreat. Palos Verdes, CA.
Remixed my favorite Death Cab for Cutie song, "Transatlanticism," on a flight from Chicago to LA.
Enzo the German Shepherd.