Uncanny Valley is Anna Wiener’s memoir of her mid to late 20s working in salt mines of Silicon Valley. At 25, she was an under employed assistant in the declining publishing industry in NYC. She joined a publishing related start up in NY as employee #5, and then got …
Yesterday I got to ride Amtrak for almost 5 hours going North, get off the train, give a 45 minute sales presentation, then get back on the train and go home. Not the most productive use of my time, for sure. On the way North I was working. It turns …
If you look in the left column you’ll see a new link to 2020 Books. Posting book reviews allows me to feel like I wrote something, without really writing. I’ll still post book reviews when I read something particularly interesting, but otherwise I’ll put the reviews on the review page …
In The Body, Bryson does for human biology what he did for science in A Short History of Everything. In about 400 pages he attempts to provide a college 101 level understanding of pretty much everything you might want to know about your body. He mostly succeeds, although given the …
Earlier this week a long time Internet friend posted that she had found her old Hypermart site. Hypermart was “Geocities for businesses.” I knew the three founders from my first Internet job. They started the site with one server and in less than a year (IIRC) they had sold it …
We got a head start on our planned 2020 tour of beachy areas we might move to in 2021 by spending a few days of Christmas break in Charleston SC – the first trip there for either of us. Won’t be the last trip there for sure, and Charleston has …
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren’t celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn’t need a “post everyday in December” stunt this year to do it!
We aren’t camping …
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren’t celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn’t need a “post everyday in December” stunt this year to do it!
We aren’t camping …
About 30 pages into this book, I had a brief thought that I didn’t care that the book won a Pulitzer, there was no way I was reading 400+ pages about surfing.
I finished the book. Surfing is the star of probably 90% of the pages in the book …
Set in 1969 and 1989, South of Broad is essentially a love letter to Charleston. It’s a sweeping story of a set of unlikely friends that meet in high school in 1969 and are still friends in 1989, although given the asshole factor in some of these characters you certainly …
