cyberspacial musings
bits about the real and virtual worlds

At a recent trip to Manila, I was able to tour a Gawad Kalinga (www.gk1world.org) community built on a landfill. This is one of my favorite photos from the trip. ”

Seems like we’ve been here before.  NPR has published a list of their top 100 SF and Fantasy books, reprinted here with the one’s I’ve read marked with a “+” (46 total, although I suspect I read a couple of others and just can’t remember).  How many have you read? + 1. The Lord Of [...]

I had no idea that I was such an early adopter of LinkedIn.  Talk about being the first to venture across a desert …

I’m very encouraged by the latest Netflix news.  In short, Neflix is going to start providing exclusive original programming, starting with “House of Cards”, starring Kevin Spacey (good actor!).  I think this is a great move for the content industry — it puts Netflix squarely in the same place that HBO, Showtime and other premium [...]

I just read this blog post about stand-up and walking desks and realized that I hadn’t posted a picture of my home stand-up desk.  I needed something less complicated at home so I purchased a bit of Ikea furniture to raise the monitors and used the original desk shelf to raise the keyboard.  Worked like [...]

This is by far the best piece of postal mail I’ve received in a long time.  The letter has a Tanzanian stamp with a Dar Es Salaam postmark.  And apparently it also has Charles Taylor’s trust and confidence in me.

The BBC published a list of 100 books. It’s been suggested that this list points out that most folks have only read 6 of the 100, but actually the BBC was looking for the UK’s best loved novel.  Nonetheless, here’s the list and my score. Looks like I’ve read 21 of them. At least as [...]

Some friends saw my Microsoft badge the other day and noted how different I look compared to 2006, before I lost a great deal of weight (about 75 pounds).  Here are three photos from vacations in Hawaii showing what I looked like before and after.  In case you are wondering, I still wear the hat [...]

I thought I might try to be more regular with my postings, perhaps from time to time posting a photo that I think is interesting.  Below is a photo taken on the pigtails, a windy narrow road with a number of tunnels that leads to Mt. Rushmore.

Yup, that’s me in the lower left of the 2008 crossfit collage for Crossfit Eastside.  Happy New Year to my friends there and I’m looking forward to a great 2009 working out with you.