July 2010
1 post
“Nighthawks is a detective story. Like most of Hopper’s paintings, it is more...”
– Frank Chimero’s thoughts on Nighthawks, one of my longtime favorite works of art
June 2010
2 posts
“From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person...”
– Matt Rutledge of Woot, on the company’s acquisition by Amazon
The Louis, by Crystal Ayala
Yesterday, I received a painting from Crystal Ayala in a splatter-tastic envelope.
The Louis, as my wife and I have begun referring to it, is absolutely gorgeous. Louis was my Betta fish throughout college, living with me in my dorm room inside a decommissioned old blender. He was, if a fish can be called so, a noble and faithful fish. Louis died some time ago and is probably somewhere in the...
April 2010
2 posts
Digital Book Rentals
Why hasn’t this happened yet!? I mean, really I know why–it was more of a rhetorical-throw-hands-in-the-air type of question. iTunes does the exact same thing for movies. Paying $9.99–15.99 for digital books sounds expensive to a lot of people (myself included). I would love to see the iBooks store implement a 30 day rental period for a book. It would give you enough flexibility to finish...
“My wife loves me, so she humors me and joins me for the unboxing.”
– Shawn Blanc, Diary of an iPad Owner