The Entroporium

An update on Walter’s progress This is Walter as I found him wandering alone in the Oakland hills. The photo on the left was taken just minutes after I managed to coax him on leash. Weight: 13.5 pounds Two weeks later – neutered, eye surgery, haircut, two squares a day and a little love. Weight: [...]

When is it OK to unfriend the dead?

As it turned out, the Rockets-Lakers series did not turn out to be the art versus science showdown that I’d been hoping for.  The key game turned out to be Game 2, in which the Lakers – having lost its home court advantage in Game 1 – simply decided to fight.  As Ron Artest demonstrates [...]

A recent Clay Shirky post, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” says that the newspaper as a business model is dead, killed by its reliance on industrial printing technology. The future, he tells us, will be based on experiments in journalistic form and not any particular form of media, new or old. Meanwhile, as I talked [...]

I know everybody loves my musings on media, music, sports and whatever, but this has kind of taken over my spare brain space the last few days… Walter (a temporary name we’ve given him) is looking for a permanent home. He is a 13 pound terrier mix and about one year old. I found him [...]

Sometimes the world demands you stop and help. I found this guy alone by a shade tree in a not-so-remote area of Anthony Chabot Regional Park.  Covered with bugs and filth, I took about 15 minutes to convince him that I could leash him.  I brought him back to the horse stables where he was [...]

In celebration of my birthday today, I’m republishing this article that I previously posted on Facebook about six weeks ago.  Birthdays are always a good time for summing up, thinking about the past and how it got you where you think you may be going – and as my friends know strong opinions about music [...]

As a Golden State Warriors fan – and admittedly a fair-weather one – I could not have found the 2008-09 NBA season much duller or depressing. The play of this uninspired, oft-injured squad and its possibly insane coach drove me well away from following the team despite a raft of discount ticket offers. My inner [...]