From the monthly archives: July 2010
Ten Years On.
On July 29, 2010 · 74 Comments · In Black & White World, Domestic Life, Ephemera, Pop Culture, The Fifties, The Forties, The Thirties
And I am SPENT.
After I finished a vidcast I hung up the Skype, took off the headphones, picked up the phone, did a radio interview – then bolted out the door to get some things for my daughter’s birthday party. She doesn’t want much. No long list this year, no Webkinz or any other [...]
Oh, I don’t care. I mean I do, but summer lassitude has struck with full force, and I’ll be switched if I can manufacture enthusiasm for anything. That’s not good: tomorrow contains one hour-long podcast (with Pat Sajak), two short interviews, one webcast interview, one radio interview, one column, and of course the blogging, [...]
So it’s a night without the daughter. Put her on the bus this morning for another camp, this being a real camp with cookouts and s’mores and ghost stories told with flashlights under your chin. She loves it, and was keen to go – but spent the minutes before the bus pulled away drawing imaginary [...]
One of those days where I did not follow the News of the World very much, and hence was happier. Stupid, but happy. The lack of a laptop – in the shop, as noted – changes the way I follow things; when I’m seeing the world through an iPad, it’s different. Moving from this [...]
Friday I dropped my laptop on my foot, and broke it. I can probably break down the audience here into two types: those who wonder if I am limping, and those who are sad about the laptop. I tried rebooting it, and it declined to advance beyond the logo and the loading indicator. Ran [...]
And so we find ourselves at the end of the week, looking at the boxes, judging the time by the boxes ticked off. I did most of them. So there’s that.
I slept last night, so apparently insomnia is not an issue: good.
Friday is shaping up as a clusterfarg: sigh. But that’s by [...]
“Antagochronistic,” Steve Jobs said. “It’s not a word by Sarah Palin. It’s a word that describes the reaction of some to our -”
I woke. I laid there, parsing the word: antagonistic. Anachronistic. Okay. Made no sense. But if I had conceived of such a word, that meant one thing: I had been sleeping. [...]
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