But in our actual our world, this page is just a sad/funny satire. I mean compare today’s actual news.google page. [thx to the laughing squid]

Think you have a tough job? Join the military. Here is my new desktop, made from a photo of a jet engine at the March Reserve Air Force Base, Airfest 2088. The Airfest is a type-o-rama of warnings and designations. This one seemed like just what I needed during the last days of the CaliforniaAuthors […]

The newly re-designed CaliforniaAuthors.com is up and running. I always say — in terms of design and building — there are no small websites, but this one really doesn’t qualify as small; in fact, it’s big, with its 70+ author essays and excerpts, its many pages of directory-style resources, and its more than 1800 […]

Damnit! It turns out that I can’t do a major website relaunch and keep my whole house out of whack with my do-it-yourself realist painting workshop. Too much chaos! Website work wants order! Okay, break down the still life, resked the whole thing after the launch and visit of M&M next weekend.
On the M&M visit […]

It’s crunch time on the californiaauthors.com redesign. [sketch] Thanks to Val, the shiny new site is already living and breathing on the test server and I am filling it up with the copious content CaliforniaAuthors has built in six years of operation. Val made the blog-port from Graymatter to WordPress look like a piece of […]

Freda and Laurie! Very nice to see you!

Duane Kaiser, the talented creator of the now-famous Painting A Day blog/movement, has a series of nice time-lapse movies of his beautiful still life technique. Enjoy the one below and check them all out here.

Night Note friend and partner at californiaauthors.com, Donna Wares, has launched a website for her cool new travel book Great Escapes: Southern California. Last Sunday, she had a nice splash in the LA Times travel section (complete with a cool google map and pictures), with another story in the offing for this Sunday. My opinion: […]

… to xkcd — a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It is geek-larious. You should read it! Here’s a sample (click the comics to see them full sized:
Kayak:

Writers’ Strike:

Lisp:

More: The Blog Fractal, Join MySpace, Ninja Turtles, Perspective, Regular Expressions.
Okay, what kind of geek are you?A laughing one? Yeah, me too.

Deadlines, budgets, style conflicts, all kinds of little and big things, can lay a pretty rigid track for creative thought. We use a direct approach and our well-vetted set of strategies to get it done and move on to the next thing. We are especially apt to take our first idea and go with it […]

Thanks to Mark and Michelle, the Cohens are now part of the largest distributed computing project in history! Among the many marvels of our new Playstation 3: the ease with which we are suddenly folding@home. Wikipedia will tell you that means we’re letting Stanford University use our playstation’s “downtime” to “perform computationally intensive simulations of […]

I was exactly like a kid. The box came and I saw that I’d received the coolest possible holiday present — I squealed, I called my friends and I ran around the house until I bonked. Seriously. So, I have that weird exhaustion usually reserved for excited sugar-rushers on xmas morning, the kind where they […]

Social networking comes to the Hermitage. Michelle ran into old Freedom compatriot Ethan via linkedin and pointed him to The Night Note and a few e-mails later he and his wife Amy are coming to luncheon tomorrow. We haven’t seen Ethan in eight years. Crazy!

Here’s a little menu preview:
Herb-Roasted Olives
Eggplant Bruschetta
Dates with Parmigiano-Reggiano
Sliced Persimmons
A cup […]

For the rest of you readers, this should not be construed as an indication that I have too much time on my hands. Just because I have a migraine hangover and I am hermetically sealed inside my house hiding from soot and waiting for the tree-trimming guys, that doesn’t mean I can’t accomplish something […]

Bigtime software wiz Joe Gregorio notes the NYTimes spreading the wealth. Joe highlights why this is cool in technical terms, and I’m happy to see them do as the Lawrence dudes did. Let’s hope we see more of this sort of thing.

Because it’s time to stand up for reason, I’ve started declareyourdisbelief.com. Please check it out. And, if you too want to stand up, you can visit the Disbelief Boutique — to pick up some “House of Reason” goods. Or … read your way to reasonability by visiting the Declare Your Disbelief Media Store (beta) at […]

You know who you are:
• Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan
• The inked Canadian idiot laptop thief gets LOLed. Check it out.
• The illusion of blogger anonymity: A federally-funded artificial intelligence lab is figuring out how to track people over the Internet, based on how they write.
• Several Dem answers […]

So the other day I went over to godaddy and bought declareyourdisbelief.com. [no link yet, it’s parked for now] When I get my zipity new machine, I’m going to design some new disbelief tees and I thought I might put up a little disbelievers blog where I could muse, ponder and carp about all the […]

A collection of blogging bits and pieces that I haven’t got around to posting, or things that fell out of this or that post — leftover, but still tasty.
Val makes a special Hidden Cheese Pizza where the oh-so-creamy Buffalo Mozzarella hides under the fresh tomato slices. This — and the perfect roasting of the red […]

This Google map shows the location of homes of some of my ancestors going back to 1890. I got most of the info from the very interesting photocopies of actual US census documents posted and cataloged at ancestry.com. The docs are members only, but you can get a 1 month membership and learn some really […]