Last Sunday we hitched a ride with the AUC guys down to Silicon Valley. It was the same as last year’s tour: Fry’s (the small one) where I bought an SSD and some Altoids; the Computer History Museum, which was smaller and less impressive than last year but they still have the mechanical difference engine which is great; and Apple HQ at 1 Infinite Loop, where I bought a T-shirt, a shirt for work, and a microphone/button for my phone. Finally we returned to San Francisco to check in at Moscone West for the conference. Read the rest of this entry »
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Good evening, and welcome to tonight’s edition of the World’s Best and Most Amazing Blog Ever. First up, we review the V Australia service between Sydney and Los Angeles, as well as the bowl of ramen I ate at the southern food court in the San Francisco Airport International Terminal, and the Holiday Inn at the airport. Finally, there will be an extensive coverage of travels over the last three days at Las Vegas.
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WARNING: this post is another one of those posts that contains me being a bit self-indulgent.
There’s a shiny, magical, completely imaginary universe, which does not and cannot exist, despite continual referral from our universe. The word that refers to it is “ideal,” and also its relative “ideally.”
In the ideal world, there are no cockups, and there are no conspiracies. Everybody lives in harmony, harmony always in the ideal lands. Ideally, everything everybody says and does is perfect, jobs get done on time and budget, paperwork does itself, iPads are freely available for everybody that wants one, alien lifeforms find themselves, and the gravy train runs all night.
And we don’t live in that world. At least, I certainly haven’t been. Read the rest of this entry »
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