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Episode One Hundred and Forty Nine: Yes, And...
August 21, 2014
0.0 Station Ident A tea-house in Portland's Pearl district having taken a break and devoured Warren Ellis' Trees #4. The existential angst of unignorable...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Eight: Better Days
August 21, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 10:15pm on a weeknight, and I normally try to write these things in the morning. A fractured day, work-wise, not so fractured if you look...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Seven: I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos
August 20, 2014
0.0 Station Ident This is one of those mornings where I'm ever-so-slightly angry and rage-y, where I'm kind of hammering words out by bashing my keyboard at...
Episode One Hundred And Forty Six: Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber
August 19, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Back in Portland, hiding in my corner in the basement writing this, the first time that I haven't been looking at what's been happening in...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Five: Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5)
August 18, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 30,000 feet again, this time on the way back to Portland from the family farm. It's inexplicably hotter in Portland than it is in Farmland,...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Three: Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4)
August 14, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm in Branson, Missouri, on an extended family road-trip, visiting in-laws and newborn cousins. Family is milling around me, grilling...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Four: What Are The Civilian Applications?; The Way The World Works; Seeing Like A SpamSieve
August 14, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Apparently, business as usual in Ferguson literally means business as usual in all its depressing aspects. I'm holed up in Branson, MO...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Two: Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3)
August 13, 2014
0.0 Station Ident The farm out in Missouri. Eighty-odd degrees outside, gorgeous in the shade with a light breeze, steaks on the grill including That Amazing...
Episode One Hundred and Forty One: Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014
August 12, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Writing this sat at PDX airport again for a family trip this time, not work - spending some time down on the father-in-law's family farm in...
Episode One Hundred and Forty: Relentless; Tech And Media, Not Or; 2014
August 11, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's hot again here in Portland (being about 96 degrees fahrenheit and about 35.5 degrees c at nearly 7pm in the evening. This, to be...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty Eight: The Exoskeleton of the Internet; The Web Created the Modern Camera; Data Has Replaced God
August 7, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Today I am in San Antonio, more work for NOSTROMO BLACK. I've done that thing where I had all the good intentions for getting outside and...
Episode One Hundred And Thirty Seven: Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs
August 6, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Feeling: weird. Empty. Hiding from a house that has cleaners in it. My wife and son left this morning on a family vacation back to the farm...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty Six: Usborne's Future; Phase Change; OK Google, Dismantle Barge
August 5, 2014
0.0 Station Ident A recovery day after yesterday's travel. Fresh pancakes for breakfast. New glasses. That thing with new glasses where the world is new, and...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty Five: Digital Watches; Stay In Control; Unreasonable Empathy; Odds
August 4, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 3:30am wakeup call, cab to the airport, one flight, two flights, New Mexico and then back the same day. In-flight wifi, but too early to...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty Four: 17.5; Other Newsletters Are Available; SNOWPIERCER WALKTHROUGH V12.03
August 1, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I was unlucky enough to have the kind of gorgeous, relaxing two-hour massage yesterday that meant I woke up incredibly tired and achey this...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty Two: Only 10%; This Hasn't Benefitted Ordinary Lives As Such
July 30, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Earlier this year, on a whim, I'd applied to the Presidential Innovation Fellowship - a program run out of office of the White House. Given...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty Three: Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time
July 30, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm stressed out: I have a number of phone calls to make and they're all to do with the administrivia of life. Only, they're not...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty One: To Serve; Odds
July 28, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Our car is being ScotchGuarded. I suppose it's the equivalent of putting a nanofilm of carbon on top of every possible surface in the car...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty: Seeing; Shallow; Better Taxis
July 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident This being Portland, there's a lot of greenery around, so I'm in the kind of environment that (to my mind at least) prompts a bit of...
Episode One Hundred and Twenty Eight: The Only Medium; Watching You; Smart Cities
July 23, 2014
0.0 Station Ident A surprise (and welcome) upgrade on the flight back to Portland and I'm relatively rested and relatively un-jetlagged, at least I am at...
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