October 2011
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To My Daughter: My Hero, Steve Jobs
Every morning and evening, I trade emails with my children. We take a photo and send it to each other to let the other person know what we’re up to. We call it “8:22, Where are you?” (“7:02, Where are you?” for my son) and since starting my commute to California during the week, it’s become the thing I look most forward to each day. This morning, I wrote the...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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“It’s my own space, my own time, when I’m just out there letting my thoughts go....”
– Louise Kent, runner
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May 2011
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I Think This Is What You Call A “Bitch-Slap” →
From the 2011 Whitehouse Correspondents’ Dinner Donald Trump has no sense of humor1. Haircut notwithstanding. ↩
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April 2011
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Apr 29th
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“Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s...”
– The Petersen Museum in Los Angeles is the most significant automotive museum in the United States, perhaps even the world. What an amazing gift. This story sounds more like one of those questions a 12-year-old me would make up to ask my friends: “If you had $100 million to spend on cars, what...
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“Cranking” is the best thing you are going to read... →
Merlin Mann did some real writing yesterday. It’s the kind of thing you start, then stop after a sentence or two, realizing this one’s not going to be like the rest. You shift in your seat, start…
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Two Degrees of John Gruber →
“Dude! There is a piece on DF that references your Unicorn stuff!!!” The SMS from my friend buzzed my iPhone at 12:18 this afternoon. “DF” is Daring Fireball, the website of John Gruber and…
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“I Was Gandhi’s Boyfriend” →
So I ask him if he’s come out to his parents, and he says, “Oh, no, they’re all old-school Hindu and they wouldn’t understand.” So I say, “But wouldn’t it be cool if you could do a campaign with a poster of your parents hugging you, and the poster could say, ‘Staying in the Closet Is a Hin-Don’t’?” Hilarious piece in today’s New Yorker.
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“At least 99 percent of running is just showing up, getting out there and putting...”
– John Hanc, The Essential Runner
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Scott Simpson, dead at 38 →
I’d met Scott twice, both times at the cramped-but-charming Lunchbox Laboratory location in Ballard. For whatever reason, I usually found myself at his restaurant at odd hours, eating “lunch” at 3pm after a meeting downtown, or some such thing. The “Lab” would be quiet at those times and it was easy to strike up a conversation with Scott or his girlfriend, Allegra. Lunchbox Laboratory is home to...
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