Category Archives: People

Obama speaks Bahasa Indonesia

November 12, 2010 – 3:19 pm

“You can hear several brief passages of Obama in Bahasa in the first minute of the clip below, and the Ich bin… sentence that brought the house down begins at around 2:00. For expert analysis of how Obama handles the language, see Ben Zimmer at Language Log, here. To my ear, after the two years [...]

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Otis Benjamin Coldewey

November 12, 2010 – 2:40 pm

Six weeks ago tonight – October 2, 2010 – this little guy entered our world. It has been a fantastic journey so far – so many changes happening each day.  Beth and I are posting many many baby photos over here at http://otisbenjamin.posterous.com. Check ‘em out…

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Shipwreck in LA

September 28, 2010 – 12:53 pm

LA gallery and event space Machine Project is the site of a shipwrecked vessel, the Sea Nymph — at least until October 8. They are hosting a month of nautical-themed events. Love this.

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Seth Godin Linchpin Meetup Recap & Book Recommendations

June 27, 2010 – 11:32 pm

When Seth Godin announced a series of reader meetups oriented around his new book, Linchpin, I decided right away to organize the Vancouver event. Linchpin’s themes of overcoming internal resistance and bringing a sense of art into one’s work have resonated with me as I have developed RedRovr, and I looked forward to meeting others [...]

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Linchpins are everywhere

June 13, 2010 – 10:59 pm

I’m organizing a meetup in Vancouver tomorrow (June 14) around marketer Seth Godin’s book Linchpin. The Vancouver event is part of a worldwide series of meetups about Linchpin all on the same day – set into motion by Seth but organized locally by volunteers. Vancouver has the 7th largest showing worldwide (!), behind cities like [...]

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Future Fatigue

June 1, 2010 – 11:02 pm

William Gibson: Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Say that, last week, two things happened: scientists in China announced successful quantum teleportation over a distance of ten miles, while other scientists, in Maryland, announced the creation of an artificial, self-replicating genome. In this particular version of [...]

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how all the pieces fit together

April 17, 2010 – 5:43 pm

OK, almost a month old, but great. Paul Ford, of ftrain.com renown, on leaving his job: You know what happened, really and without irony? I had an opportunity to be an editor at Harper’s, to edit pieces for the magazine. It was something I expected to really want. I had wonderful editors to learn from. [...]

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RIP Alex Chilton

March 17, 2010 – 10:44 pm

I feel like I’m just marking memorials these days. First singer Kate McGarrigle (RIP post here), now Big Star frontman Alex Chilton. A couple of years ago I wrote a post about my surprise at learning that the Alex Chilton I knew for “Thirteen” and “The Ballad of El Goodo” had been a teen idol [...]

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Canadian Comics

March 2, 2010 – 9:11 pm

Hark! A Vagrant. Very entertaining webcomic. Currently a bit more Canada-focused than usual, following the Olympic hockey gold. via my bro

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Personal Biosphere

January 30, 2010 – 1:47 pm

“Personal biospheres” by Seattle artist Vaughn Bell. So great – I need one of these for my living room. Or better yet: a cafe filled with multi-person versions. via A New F*cking Wilderness

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