I may not be one of the most fashionable people you’ve ever met, but I do love to read The Sartorialist. Last night, after working far too late, I was perusing my RSS feeds, and came across this little nugget on the site:
There’s also an awesome little video of how to tie your scarf like this, and since it’s a brisk San Francisco day out today, I gave it whirl. Simple, and it looks just as good at home as it does here.
My friend Aneesa has a lovely review of the poet Kay Ryan’s work published over at Fanzine today. I’m a poetry fan, myself, but I’d never heard of Kay Ryan before. Aneesa’s review made me want to go out and purchase her books, though, so I wanted to share it. I’ve included my favorite of the excerpted poems after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
This is apropos of nothing I usually write about on this blog (if you can even say I “usually” write on this blog at all), but if you happen to stop by and find that you haven’t read the Esquire magazine profile of Roger Ebert yet, do it. I read a lot of writing for work and for pleasure, but mostly for work. Words can get exhausting by the end of the day, and this was one of the first pieces of long-form journalism that I’ve had the patience to read through from start to finish, with no breaks, workload be damned, in ages.
I’ve been neglecting this site for a while, so I thought I’d update anyone who happens to drop by with some details about what projects have been keeping me busy.
Yesterday was Earth2Tech’s first conference, Green:Net, here in San Francisco. I moderated a panel on software, with Jeremy Jaech, the CEO of Verdiem; Richard Barber, the CTO of CarbonFlow; Jonathan Gay, founder of Greenbox; Raffi Krikorian, co-founder of Wattzon; and Alex Wissner-Gross, founder of CO2 Stats. I’ll also did some short video interviews with speakers, including folks from Dell, Cisco, GE, IBM and Microsoft. They’ll be up on the Earth2Tech site soon — I’ll post links when they’re available.
I also recently completed two feature articles. Read the rest of this entry »
In the last few months, I’ve become enamoured of Tim O’Reilly’s writings over at O’Reilly Radar. One of the points he makes often that resonates with me is this: “work on stuff that matters.” I think it’s a great philosophy, all around, whether you’re talking about a career, troubleshooting a project that’s gone awry, or navigating a personal relationship. He wrote a post this weekend to explain what he means, and I thought it was worth sharing. Read the rest of this entry »
