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While waiting in the basement for the washing machine to finish, I picked up a book from the open boxes stacked under the stairs, the remainder of our unpacking from … almost two years ago *gulp*. The book was a well foxed paperback of Victor Hugo’s Choses vues, a sort of memoir of major and Continue reading Feuilles volantes All of the Netherlands turned out yesterday to welcome the return of a pensionado (retiree) from Spain — Sinterklaas! And his merry band of pranksters, the Zwaartepieten (Black Peters), whose political incorrectness is tempered by the addition of fantasy Piets, such as the Elvis Piet. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px;
Of all the Jobs anecdotes doing the rounds from Isaacson’s biography, this one stuck in my mind:
“At one point, the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated,” Isaacson writes: Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused Continue reading Define nitpicky In a CNN Money article yesterday about the Facebook vs Google+ rivalry, my editor’s antennae started twitching when I read “But defensive moves are not Zuckerberg’s style, and in September, at the company’s F8 developers event, he unleashed a sea of new features that alter the current service radically.” “A sea of features”? A Continue reading A slew of … I love following American politics. It’s so much more fun than in other countries. I think my fascination comes down to the exceptional degree of chutzpah shown by candidates and commentators, and the almost inevitable exposure of the mismatch between what they say and what they do. Once the flaw is exposed, it is fascinating Continue reading Freedom means the right to choose your own truth |
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