s08e02: Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020
0.0 Context setting I started writing this on Thursday 9 January 2020: Thursday 9 January 2020 and it’s very cold in Portland. It’s 37 fahrenheit, which is...
s08e01: Learning the world
0.0 Context It’s Friday 3 January 2020 on the West Coast of America where I’ve been studiously ignoring all the froth of Are We At War Yet because I just...
s07e27: Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me?
0.0 Situation report Tuesday December 17 2019. The thing about calling your doctor’s office to make an appointment because you’re having chest pain and...
s07e26: Ambient information radiators; butter trucks; trains
0.0 Situation report Wednesday 11 December 2019. I’m on a train from Sacramento to Emeryville to meet up with friends for dinner and am kind of forcing...
s07e25: Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1
0.0 Situation report Monday December 9, 2019, lunchtime. I am in Portland today and then flying down to Sacramento tomorrow for a few days for some day job...
s07e24: What Kind of Day Has It Been
0.0 Sitrep Saturday December 7 2019. I’ve been trying to write this episode since Monday December 2, which was a good few days ago. I was in Sacramento for...
s07e23: For the people, by the people
0.0 Sitrep It’s Wednesday, November 27 2019 and I’m writing this while my wife is watching Noelle, the Disney+ original movie in the background. I am trying...
s07e22: Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3
0.0 Sitrep Monday, November 25, 2019. I have to admit that it has been difficult getting back into writing, but here I am, making the words bleed out of my...
s07e21: Personal Data Gossip Networks
0.0 Sitrep Hello, I’m back. Friday, November 22 back in Portland, Oregon. I was in Missouri last week on a sort-of vacation, dealing with the farm we...
s07e20: 1:9:90
0.0 Sitrep Lunchtime, Thursday November 7 2019. I had a sausage roll. If you’re American you have no idea what I’m talking about and you have no idea how...
s07e19: Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political
0.0 Sitrep Tuesday, November 5 2019, taxiing at Sacramento airport and about to take off back to Portland. Don’t even think of @ing me about my carbon...
s07extra06: Yet another extra bit
0.0 Sitrep It’s Friday, November 1 2019. I've been travelling this week and if there were ever anything that would go into some sort of "I'm too old for this...
s07e18: Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad
0.0 Sitrep Wednesday, October 30 2019. Written mostly in the air. My head is swiss-cheesed because I just quantum-leaped from DCA to PDX and something in DC...
s07e17: Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and
0.0 Sitrep Lunchtime in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday October 29, 2019. I’d intended to send this yesterday, but work, life and jet lag got the better of me so...
s07extra05: An extra bit
0.0 Sitrep Sunday, 27 October 2019, 10:15am. I’m writing this on Alaska flight 764 to Washington National (Reagan) to prep for and kick off the content...
s07e16: “With the word POLICE on it”
0.0 Sitrep It’s Wednesday 23rd October, on a Southwest 737 heading back to Portland, Oregon from Sacramento, California. You can’t stop me from listening to...
s07e15: Snow Crashing
0.0 Sitrep SACRAMENTO: Tuesday morning, October 22 2019. I was in Berkeley for the first time yesterday for a half-day conference on Public Theologies of...
s07extra04: "Decentralized?!"
0.0 Sitrep Evening in Portland, Oregon on Friday 18 October, 2019 and both children are asleep. Today has been a family day - going out for hot chocolate,...
s07e14: Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle
0.0 Sitrep It’s the evening in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday October 16, 2019. The rain has started here and probably won’t stop for the next few months....
s07e13: No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing
0.0 Sitrep It’s lunchtime in Portland, Oregon on Monday, 14 October, 2019. Look, I’m going to be honest here and admit that I probably don’t need a fully-...
