It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is bedtime reading with my daughter.

I see myself at this moment in my career.

Am I Linus? Sleepless in a sincere patch of my choosing. Awaiting The Great Pumpkin.

Late in the night, I am disappointed. And with me, the friends I led on this misadventure.

Unshakable in my hope will I seek out a sincerer patch? One free of hypocrisy as far as the eye can see.

“Just wait until next year, Charlie Brown!”

Or am I Sally? Tearing into Linus for talking me into sitting in a muddy field all night…

Posted: November 28th, 2007 under personal.
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Walking around London with my family at the Fall ’07 Scrum Gathering.

Posted: November 24th, 2007 under personal.
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Not counting a PowerCenter clone, the last Apple computer I bought for myself ran OS 7.1 and looked like this…

Ten years later, I’m having a wee of a time setting up my new MacBook Pro.

Why a decade between Macs? Don’t promise Copland and deliver System 7.5. Remember “Conflict Catcher”? All water under the bridge.

Today, ironically, was about Windows. I created a Boot Camp partition running Windows Vista with full Aero. A great environment to demo Ript. I can also use VM Ware Fusion to run that partition as a virtual machine within OS X.

Posted: November 7th, 2007 under personal.
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A company that’s just been acquired is like senior year of high school.

People have conversations who’ve never made eye contact.

Everyone goes to the parties.

The theater geeks talk to the brains talk to the jocks.

People ask, “so, what are you doing next year?”

Posted: October 31st, 2007 under personal.
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Posted: October 30th, 2007 under personal.
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I contributed a short essay to Hitotoki, New York.

Hitotoki is “an online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to locations in cities worldwide.”

“I glanced up to see another shape hit the sand…”

Posted: October 29th, 2007 under personal.
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Posted: October 20th, 2007 under personal.
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Traveling to and from a software dev conference my flights were delayed due to software failures. Both times techs repeatedly rebooted the plane hoping the machine would heal itself.

Also on this trip the crew made the following announcement:

Unfortunately we’ve just learned that our toilets aren’t flushing. We apologize for the inconvenience… We will now be starting our beverage service…

Posted: October 19th, 2007 under personal.
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Ken at ケンカ

Posted: October 14th, 2007 under personal.
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Elbow grazing marble reflecting
glass-cased dessert museum.
Amid stacked ceramic clatter
and shrilling snorts of steam,
she waits.

Hand holds wallet.
Wallet enfolds ten times
ten-fold consummation
of this daily act —
in punch-fringed coffee cards.

Each card redeemed, a detail.
The whole retained, a grace.

Some dark, bitter drafts
need no wait.
Her modest remedy,
this host of free lattes.

Posted: October 13th, 2007 under personal.
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