The New Road

News and such

Lori has been getting on me about not blogging. I've been blogging a lot about politics. Probably not the most interesting stuff.

Anyway, things have been interesting lately. I have a bit of a cold. Hopefully it will go before Tuesday when I have to give a big presentation, and Wednesday, where I interview the legendary Andy Hertzfeld for Bound Cast. Andy is one of the best programmers of all time. He was one of the original Macintosh programmers and recently wrote a book called Revolution in the Valley, which I got a Slashdot review on, as well as a Bound Cast review.

Bound Cast has been doing pretty well. I have a backlog of content. Which I should since I am the reviewer. I need to get in contact with Joel to get him started on some reviews.

I'm a little worried about the technical aspects of the Andy Hertzfeld interview. i need to find a quiet space at MacWorld to do the interview. Which is a challenge in itself. If I can't do that then I'll have to depend on the cardoid pattern of the microphones to catch more of our voices than of the people surrounding us. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to interview a living legend. If it screws up it will be a serious shame. One of the major reasons for the external work that I have been doing on CGN and BC over the last couple of years has been to be able to reach these types of folks, and I've been reasonably successful at it. But a face to face interview with Hertzfeld is a major score.

I've got a pending book proposal that is being reviewed right now. I submitted it through Studio B, which are my agents. I also have a two article series with IBM that is being edited and will go up mid-month. I have some other article proposals out there, but nothing with IBM at the moment.

I've seen more than a few movies recently. I watched Dodgeball last night over at Rebecca and Dave's place. That is a great movie. Extremely funny and well written. Surprisingly so, I have to admit. Resident Evil Apocalypse was very bad. Closer, which is in theaters now, is insanely well written, directed and acted. Flight of the Pheonix is pretty bad, but doable as a matinee. If you are looking for something a little older then I re-recommend 13 Days and Fog of War, as well as upping my review of Shrek 2, which has grown on me with multiple viewings.

We've been doing a lot on the house recently. We did a big trash pickup and got rid of a lot of stuff that we didn't need. The oven door on Megan's kitchen was destroyed by one of her friends. But the rest of the kitchen set is holding up. All of the Christmas decorations are down, but not put away yet. The Dyson seems to be keeping up with the Sadie hair and such, and we are looking to add another dog to the mix. But finding a dog is a big problem. You would think that we are ideal candidates for a dog, but such is not the case. Apparently having a young kid and an old-blind dog means that we only qualify for some dogs. Ugh. Still, there are a few in the pipe that we are looking at.

Let me see, what else. Megan is doing really well. She has a growing vocabulary but is still putting together sentence with lots of interstitial nonsense words. It's very cute though. Painfully cute. She is expressing opinions and for the time being it's fun to be able to satisfy her requests and watch her eyes light up.

More later. Dinner now.