Twitter, Facebook, and 1-to-N communication

Recently I’ve been using Twitter to publish little “what’s Matt up to?” messages (which you see in the home page’s sidebar). After a few days, I discovered that it had completely superseded my use of instant messaging… I can follow other people’s status updates and reply back to them, but without having to have a [...]

Thoughts on iPhone

I finally got my hands on an iPhone this week, and I’ve had a fun few days playing with it. I was going to make a little list of my observations, but really there’s one that stands out head and shoulders above the others: the screen is gorgeous. At 160 DPI, the pixels are dense [...]

Color-matching for fun and profit

I thought up an invention the other day while trying to decide whether a particular shirt and pair of shorts matched — which involved trying the combination under three different light sources (and which was a pretty good sign that the answer was “no”). Someone should make a handheld device that measures how well two [...]

Rooted

Amanda went and picked up our first share of summer vegetables from The Root Connection co-op… what beautiful produce! She returned with turnips, bok choy, collared greens, several kinds of chard, herbs, and a ton of lettuce. It all looks delicious, and I foresee a lot of salad in our future…

The Name of the Rose

Over the past few days, I devoured Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose — a delightful, meaty novel that was a much easier read than I’d been lead to believe. The edition I own (linked above) includes a great postscript by Eco that sheds light on his writing process and on some of the [...]