Last night I welcomed upon you a great injustice, in that I described a number of truly awesome products without actually showing them to you. Tonight I hope to make things right and proper, and with the help of this “Multi-Media” tool will magic their images to you, with absolutely no post office, telegraph cables, […]
Author Archives: Dane
Travelog
March 23, 2008 – 9:30 pm
After two weeks of leading a jet-setter lifestyle, crisscrossing the country in economy class, and enjoying only the finest plastic cups of Canada Dry, I have returned home. Ahh, Hood River, where all the postal clerks know my name, I have the EDGE network all to myself, and there are no more than two places […]
Flippin’ Phones
February 22, 2008 – 7:53 am
Have you ever flipped your iPhone upside down and tried to tap the buttons on the interface? You’ll undoubtedly miss most of the time. I’ve been experimenting with this, and it seems there’s a slight vertical offset between where an interface object is rendered visually, and where the screen correspondingly responds to touching that object. […]
The Rivimino
February 5, 2008 – 11:17 pm
A few years ago my friends and I discovered an odd car in a parking lot in Minneapolis, a strange-looking thing with custom tail lights, welded rails and an unpainted steel flatbed. We immediately concluded that this was perhaps the craziest, most brilliant, most ridiculous automobile we had ever seen in our lives, and so […]
Sympathetic ASR
January 20, 2008 – 10:22 pm
Cloverfield is the most terrifying movie I have ever seen in my life. The entire film was shot with a handheld camera, and edited as though the tape was pulled directly from the rubble. As a result, your own knowledge of the story is absolutely limited to that of the main characters, resulting in a […]
This is me posting to…
January 16, 2008 – 9:52 pm
This is me posting to my blog through Jott. listen Powered by Jott
Owner Alarm
January 15, 2008 – 10:16 pm
I wonder when in human history a smoke alarm last warned someone that his house was on fire, rather than carrying out its typical function of commenting on his cooking. Likewise with car alarms. I am convinced that no one, aside from the owner of the car, actually has the capacity to set off the […]
Things I Know I Know That I Didn’t Know I Knew Last Time I Was Here
January 15, 2008 – 12:20 am
How to dump my laundry basket full of clean clothes in the filthy, rain-sodden parking lot behind the Chinese restaurant. How to change a tire in the cold, spitting Oregon rain, on the side of a busy Portland freeway. Even though only one tire needs replacing, four-wheel drive cars need to have all of their […]
Tamagotchi
December 18, 2007 – 7:56 pm
I realize now that this whole writing thing brings with it an alarming clarity of thought, something I’ve sorely missed since I stopped doing it on a regular basis. I make no promises, but indeed this would be a good habit to cultivate again. Part of the problem is that while I have been writing, […]
