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Monthly Archives: June 2010

One Of These Things First

Nick Drake is one of those songwriters whose work I love but generally don’t want to touch. The recordings are so sparse, so eerily lo-fi, so fraught with intensity that replicating any of it always feels like an exercise in futility. Still, the songs are out there for the taking, and they are nearly all [...]

Hot Chocolate With A View

I haven’t posted in awhile, and that’s in large part due to the fact that I haven’t spent much time around my computer in awhile. After my Lab to Market final presentation, I took off for Highway One. “Charla” and I took the coastal route all the way to the Northwestern corner of the continental [...]

Best Dollar I Ever Spent

Today, I’d like to tell you about an iPhone app which has consumed entirely too much of my life over the past two days. The app is called “Angry Birds.” It is a nifty little physics game, and it is incredibly addictive. Here’s the storyline: You are a flock of birds. Little green pigs stole [...]