Get That Vacation Home You’ve Always Wanted: Real Cheap!
Posted on October 19, 2006 - Filed Under Culture, Misc., Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Life got you down: wife left you, dog hates you, daughter ran off to join a Goth circus troop? Second Life is the virtual online community where you can start all over again. I heard an ad on the radio this morning for something called a Pulse Loan. Pulse Loan, according to the VOG (Voice [...]
Read More..>>Art in the Vineyards: The di Rosa Preserve
Posted on October 18, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, California | Leave a Comment
Art can be joyous or tedious. I have spent days dutifully wandering the Louvre, through galleries of lookalike paintings appealing only to obsessed scholars. I have zoomed through rooms of black canvasses and blue dots, gazed at objects I am supposed to appreciate that I do not understand, that I am apparently not supposed to [...]
Is it Art or is it Traffic?
Posted on October 7, 2006 - Filed Under Misc., Photography, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
No, this is not the work of some unknown abstract impressionist. Underneath the pattern is an aerial map of San Francisco Bay and the lines represent a day of air traffic to and from San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose airports. The various colors represent arrivals and departures at each airport. (Courtesy of Michael McCarron, [...]
Read More..>>Death of a Newsman: Johnny Apple
Posted on October 5, 2006 - Filed Under Misc., News | Leave a Comment
Growing up, I had Hemingway dreams. I wanted to be that globetrotting writer, raconteur and connoisseur of fine clarets exemplified by “Papa†and the New York Times’ R.W. Apple Jr. Apple died yesterday. Thankfully we still have his words. As a cub reporter in the 70s, I pored with admiration over Apple’s dispatches from Vietnam, [...]
Read More..>>Monkey Dance
Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Indonesia, Places | Leave a Comment
This is a Kecak dance, better known as the Balinese Monkey Dance. Recently, about 5 thousand people gathered, some whipping themselves into a trance, at Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia to pray for the return of tourism. That may sound crass and commercial but tourism is entwined in Bali’s spiritual, cultural and economic life. I have [...]
