Author Archives: skierpage

About skierpage

As you might guess, my site is mine. My Schema.org info is at .

books: Richard Ford’s dispassionate adultery misses his peak

Posted on 2011-04-22 by skierpage

far from his best Jan 01, 2011 by skierpageproduct A Multitude of Sins ★★☆☆☆ Richard Ford‘s short story The Womanizer in book 40 of the Granta literary magazine knocked me out, perhaps my favorite modern short story until The God … Continue reading →

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books: a dull book about design

Posted on 2011-04-22 by skierpage

Small Things Considered is lazy and downright terrible. Continue reading →

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web: Amazon Cloud music, digits online, and piracy

Posted on 2011-03-29 by skierpage

Amazon’s Cloud Drive/Cloud Music Player is intriguing. It lets you play music from an online storage folder. It’s easy for Amazon to implement since they already have all the music files, so the millionth user with a hit song doesn’t … Continue reading →

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art and excess: $1M Red Tibetan Mastiff vs. Jeff Koons’ Puppy

Posted on 2011-03-17 by skierpage

A multi-millionaire coal baron in China just bought “Big Splash”, a red Tibetan Mastiff, for $1.5 million because “they have become highly-prized status symbols for China’s new rich.” The dogs are thought to be a pure “Chinese” breed and they … Continue reading →

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software: Google/Android doesn’t know how to link

Posted on 2011-02-01 by skierpage

Why doesn’t Google/Android understand that “John Smith” or “Monk’s coffee shop” in an event, event location, or task refers to a contact in their own Contacts application? Continue reading →

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web: Why is there Facebook at all?

Posted on 2011-01-12 by skierpage

Social networking sites are weird. All they do is host shared bits of data between groups of people they mislabel as “friends”. But why on earth do we store our  private thoughts, pictures, and information on a central site that … Continue reading →

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computers: I want to be browser-based

Posted on 2010-12-10 by skierpage

Google’s ChromeOS “nothing but web” replacement for the heavyweight PC environment is nearing release, though overshadowed by Android’s unstoppable rise for smart phones and tablets and Google TV. I wish Firefox and the Linux distributions would proceed with similar initiatives. … Continue reading →

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audio: a Walkman down cassette land

Posted on 2010-10-25 by skierpage

I was present at the birth of the Walkman and its pre-history. Continue reading →

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cars: every car will have an electric motor

Posted on 2010-10-11 by skierpage

* Every accessory becomes electric so that the engine can turn off at a standstill. *The car recovers some energy from braking to recharge its battery, energy that’s otherwise wasted as hot brake pads. * The car has an efficient motor to propel it with electricity from the battery. Continue reading →

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cars: GreenDriveExpo

Posted on 2010-10-10 by skierpage

After I ate my vegan granola, I pedaled over to the Green Drive Expo to celebrate alternative fuel vehicles (“Stupid smug eco hippies!” – Cartman) I missed Toyota’s talk, I would have loved to say “What the hell have you … Continue reading →

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