CES Countdown: 358 days to CES2009
It must be the week after the Consumer Electronics Show: I'm all written out on consumer electronics, my feet hurt, and I have a cold. All three happen every year.
Wes Phillips
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Where'd I Go?
Why off to CES2008, of course. Check out Stereophile's coverage at our Show">http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2008/">Show blog.
High Ground
Sometimes, Huckleberry simply has to take the high ground and brood. Well, it looks like brooding, but he's not deep, that cat. He's probably thinking How did I get here? How do I get down? What was that middle thing again?
Helpful Bagheera
Our least trusting cat has inexplicably determined that her favorite perch in the house is on the heavily trafficked threshold between the kitchen and living room. She's training us to step lightly—and as far to the other side as possible.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
On Christmas day, my friend, the Nuyorican goddess Liz Ramirez-Weaver saw me looking at Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. "It's good," she said. "You should borrow it."
"You Don't Understand Our Audience"
Technology Review, which is one of the magazines I not only eagerly await, but read from cover to cover, published a">http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19845"… 14 page screed against network news by John Hockenberry in the January/February issue.
Worth a Thousand Words
The Economist has an uncredited article about great">http://www.economist.com/world/europe/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=1027… charts. They're all familiar to readers of Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantative Information, but they are great charts.
Happy New Year!
When I picked up the mail on Saturday, I had an unexpected package. It contained Vance Dickason's Loudspeaker">http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781882580477">Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, 7th Edition. Oh boy!
Drunk
For a cat who only drinks water, Huckleberry certainly does a passable imitation of a drunken stupor.
Semper Fi
It occurs to me that in the three years I've been posting Friday cat blogging, I have never photographed Bagheera asleep. That wary look of hers is as close to complacent as she gets.