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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Seven: The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy
September 7, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 4:37pm, whilst the spare car, the one we would've sold by now but for the idiot accident that happened to us, is being cleaned. The strange...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Six: Space; Other Dyson Products; Not Yet, But Soon
September 4, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 2pm, 2 hours after my talk finished, a short metro ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The talk went well - they mostly...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Five: "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House
September 3, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 2:13pm after a nice lunch and stimulating conversation. Stupid jokes on Twitter about the new Dyson 360 Eye robot vacuum for which a teaser...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Four: The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density
September 3, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Is it really hiding if you're telling a whole bunch of people you're hiding? In any event: crashed in my hotel room in DC having made...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Three: Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia
September 1, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Back from hiatus. I had wanted to simply send a note yesterday saying "Dan Hon is on holiday," but instead I can blame it on having a Human...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Two: Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6)
August 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I started writing this yesterday morning, straight after I'd sent that day's delayed episode. It's 3:30pm on Thursday and I'm feeling a bit...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty One: Not That Way; Against Empathy; Just Don't
August 26, 2014
0.0 Station Ident PDX Airport, 6:30am, another day trip down to San Francisco, this one for another Undisclosed Reason that I might or might not be able to...
Episode One Hundred And Fifty: Here In My Car
August 25, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this poolside, somewhere in (very) northern California. We're on a family vacation, and I have to admit that part of me was...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Nine: Yes, And...
August 21, 2014
0.0 Station Ident A tea-house in Portland's Pearl district having taken a break and devoured Warren Ellis' Trees #4. The existential angst of unignorable...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Eight: Better Days
August 21, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 10:15pm on a weeknight, and I normally try to write these things in the morning. A fractured day, work-wise, not so fractured if you look...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Seven: I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos
August 20, 2014
0.0 Station Ident This is one of those mornings where I'm ever-so-slightly angry and rage-y, where I'm kind of hammering words out by bashing my keyboard at...
Episode One Hundred And Forty Six: Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber
August 19, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Back in Portland, hiding in my corner in the basement writing this, the first time that I haven't been looking at what's been happening in...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Five: Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5)
August 18, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 30,000 feet again, this time on the way back to Portland from the family farm. It's inexplicably hotter in Portland than it is in Farmland,...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Three: Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4)
August 14, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm in Branson, Missouri, on an extended family road-trip, visiting in-laws and newborn cousins. Family is milling around me, grilling...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Four: What Are The Civilian Applications?; The Way The World Works; Seeing Like A SpamSieve
August 14, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Apparently, business as usual in Ferguson literally means business as usual in all its depressing aspects. I'm holed up in Branson, MO...
Episode One Hundred and Forty Two: Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3)
August 13, 2014
0.0 Station Ident The farm out in Missouri. Eighty-odd degrees outside, gorgeous in the shade with a light breeze, steaks on the grill including That Amazing...
Episode One Hundred and Forty One: Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014
August 12, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Writing this sat at PDX airport again for a family trip this time, not work - spending some time down on the father-in-law's family farm in...
Episode One Hundred and Forty: Relentless; Tech And Media, Not Or; 2014
August 11, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's hot again here in Portland (being about 96 degrees fahrenheit and about 35.5 degrees c at nearly 7pm in the evening. This, to be...
Episode One Hundred and Thirty Eight: The Exoskeleton of the Internet; The Web Created the Modern Camera; Data Has Replaced God
August 7, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Today I am in San Antonio, more work for NOSTROMO BLACK. I've done that thing where I had all the good intentions for getting outside and...
Episode One Hundred And Thirty Seven: Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs
August 6, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Feeling: weird. Empty. Hiding from a house that has cleaners in it. My wife and son left this morning on a family vacation back to the farm...
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