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Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Yes, Virginia, there is a MilkSucks.com 
| | And Virginia Postrel pointed me to it. (Not that I can point to her pointer or anything.) |
It isn't all just gazing at others' techno navels
| | I've started reading Slate again, and discovered that it has a page pointing to political blogs (which it also calls "mezines"), including one by the always-quotable Virginia Postrel. Unfortunately, hers doesn't let you easily link to dated content. |
| | And hey, here's Lucianne Goldberg's gloriously politically incorrect blog. You may remember her as the friend of Linda Tripp whose insistence on publicizing Clinton's shenanigans popped the lid off the biggest worm can of the '90s. |
Supply Rulez
| | The big media supply side doesn't like the Net. Never has. It wants to own its own private pipes and not interoperate except at the most basic levels. That's why TiVo and Microsoft's UltimateTV won't work with Dish but will with DirecTV. |
Less 'Zilla?
| | Here's what Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's Chief Lizard Wrangler and one of the open source community's most sane and committed voices, had to say about her firing by AOL/Netscape. And here's the Slashdot thread on the same subject. |
But if they had a deal with Dish, I'd probably own one
More fueling around
Picture these
| | Yesterday  I picked up a FireWire cable and was amazed at how easily Photoshop and iMovie could operate the new Sony DVR-PD110 as a peripheral device. The Sony works both as a camcorder and a still camera (not megapixel, but not small). This is one of the first stills I took a couple days ago, when Jeffrey and I visited the fishing boats in the harbor. They were stinky, so the pic is of the boy holding his nose. Here's one right off the camcorder of Jeffrey on a jungle gym. it was shot from about 25 feet away. The pic on the right is of Jeffrey heading off to kindergarten yesterday. It's right off the camcorder too, and looks like it. Still, he's a cute boy. |
| | Thanks, by the way, to those who wrote to tell me I didn't need to download drivers. iMovie and Photoshop were ready and willing. |
Putting the paranoia back in the cautious outlook
| | At the dentist this morning, the assistant asked me where I live. When I told her the general area (our house is one of the black dots near the middle of this map here), she asked if we were worried about floods. I told her we had a few concerns. Then she told me about the great Flood of '95, which featured some rather impressive Acts 'o God, including the removal of a judge from his own house by a torrent of water and rock that poured through the guy's bedroom. As it happens we're fairly high up the watershed, but at kind of a convergence point. If certain culverts get plugged, the water will find our driveway. "They're predicting big rains this Winter," she added. |
| | Then she asked about fire. How close was our house to the Sycamore Canyon Fire? How about the Coyote Fire? |
| | Well, we're 120 feet from Sycamore Canyon Road, where the Sycamore Canyon fire stopped in 1977. That one burned up two hills and 270 homes. We're a few hundred feet farther from the Coyote Fire of 1964, which burned over the entire Santa Ynez mountain range behind Santa Barbara and took out 94 homes. The Romero, Wheeler and Painted Cave fires , also within the last few decades, were a little less close, but not much. On this map, we're within two pixels of where the Sycamore (yellow) and Coyote (dark green) fire perimeters intersect. |
| | I witnessed the Oakland Hills firestorm of 1991, and we have friends who lost houses and neighbors there. The last two places we lived — in the hills of San Carlos and in Emerald Hills — were both very much like the Oakland Hills in their vulnerability to fire... and the eventual likelihood that fire would, well, nenew them. Given the history, the place we live now looks even scarier. |
Functing again
| | Okay, today is working. I can stop writing in yesterday now. As often happens with MacOS problems, the only cure is to shut everything down and start over again. |
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