William Gibson’s ‘Neurotyper’

William Gibson, according to his blog, wrote Neuromancer, the first of his ‘Sprawl Trlogy’ on a hand-me-down Hermes 2000 typewriter like the one pictured above. Gibson had never owned a computer at the time he wrote the first of his seminal cyberpunk novels. My classmate Sandy Frazier, another very capable writer, has famously never owned […]

Hiatus on hiatus (at least tonight)

Another day of poking, prodding and waiting in San Jose, Los Gatos and San Francisco. I feel better tonight, so thought I’d try to get Google’s Writely working as a front end editor for this blog. Took a little fussing to understand how it works and where WordPress keeps things, but […]

May be taking a brief hiatus…

Oh the joys of getting old: we’re experiencing a health issue, and need to do the doctor, test and hospital thing just at the moment. Kind of exhausting, so we may be taking a breather from the blog for a bit. Won’t bore you with details just yet…

Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Google tonight launched Google Docs and Spreadsheets on the web, a combination of the Writely app Google purchased earlier this year and the Google Spreadsheets it launched in June. If you have an account on Google, you can presumably access Google Docs and Spreadsheets. It allows you to publish to the web, or interactively collaborate […]

Moon over Hoover Tower

Stanford’s Hoover Tower was glowing faintly in the sunrise this morning, with a full moon floating picturesquely above. An airplane is caught winging through the upper left corner.
I stopped on our jog, and steadied the Pentax Optio-X on a light pole to get this 1/8 second exposure (at f2.6) with minimal shake. The lens […]

William Gibson’s latest is called, um, er…

So I’m a huge William Gibson fan - his cyberpunk trilogy caught my attention in the 80s, and I’ve been a reader ever since. Today I was cruising his blog and noticed this post:
My new novel is being published as The Very Latest, The Most Recent And Terrible News. On the multiverse fork immediately adjacent […]

DNS (really) solved: next steps toward the new LAN

If you’ve been following my struggles with updating our our LAN, you’ll know that DNS has been an issue. Earlier we had found a nifty product called DNS Enabler to turn on and configure the BIND servers lurking under Mac OS X’s hood, but there were some problems leading to slow browser page loads. […]

True Christian faith

Not many can have read about the response of Amish families to the horrific events in West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania without being touched by the kindness shown to the family of Charles C. Roberts by the friends and families of his victims. Theirs is a true Christian witness, one that is sorely lacking in our […]

A Great Lakes sky

Big, pretty clouds dot the Chicago sky this PM. It’s about 20 degrees cooler than when I arrived on Monday. We jogged again this afternoon under nearly perfect running conditions - cool and not too windy. Now, back to meetings…

Gibson’s ‘Health Club’

So here’s my personal health club meeting last night at Gibson’s Steakhouse, the better to pursue our healthy lifestyles. We did jog 3 miles along Lake Michigan this afternoon, in an amazing wind. Podcast of jog forthcoming if I can find the right USB cable…

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