Silicon Valley Is Back and It Got Meaner
Silicon Valley's season three premiere hit the office harder than expected, and the Jack Barker storyline is scarier than anything in season one.
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Personal
Still Waiting on the Rift
My Oculus Rift preorder from January just got pushed back thanks to a component shortage, and it's got me thinking about how little "estimated ship date" actually means.
Snowed In With a Dead Modem
A weekend blizzard knocked out my internet for the better part of a day and exposed just how untested my "backup plan" actually was.
Snowed In With Surge Pricing
Dug out from the East Coast blizzard this weekend and can't stop thinking about the Uber surge-pricing screenshots flooding my Twitter feed instead of the storm coverage itself.
Billionaires Writing Letters to Babies
A cold cup of coffee, Zuckerberg's letter to his newborn daughter, Adele's Spotify holdout, and a coworker's spreadsheet for Star Wars tickets, all colliding in one scroll of the News Feed.
Finally Saw the Steve Jobs Movie
Finally saw the Sorkin/Boyle Steve Jobs movie and have some scattered opinions, plus a tangent about Surface Book unboxings and the new taco emoji.
Pepsi Perfect and the Future We Actually Got
Back to the Future Day came and went this week, and the thing I actually remember isn't the hoverboards. It's watching a $20 soda bottle turn into a $200 eBay listing in about four hours.
Finally Saw the Jobs Movie (And I Have Feelings)
A weekend trip to see the new Steve Jobs movie, some gripes about how Fassbender plays the cruelty, and a stray thought about Twitter's layoffs the same week.
The Steve Jobs Movie Isn't Playing Here Yet
The new Sorkin/Danny Boyle Steve Jobs movie is only playing in four theaters this week, which has me thinking about this blog's own origin story and Sorkin's dialogue tics while I wait my turn.
The Steve Jobs Movie, and Why I Couldn't Turn My Brain Off Afterward
Caught the new Fassbender/Sorkin Steve Jobs movie on opening weekend and have thoughts on the dialogue, the timeline compression, and an unrelated EU data ruling that ruined my mood between scenes.
Four Theaters, One Movie I Can't See Yet
The Sorkin/Boyle "Steve Jobs" movie opened today in four theaters that aren't near me, which got me thinking about biopic accuracy, my unfinished Isaacson biography, and the accidental echo of Microsoft's own product-launch theater this same week.
My Watch Would Not Stop Buzzing About the Crash
A few days of getting stock-market panic buzzed straight to my wrist, plus the Windows 10 tray icon that won't quit nagging me.