Entries Tagged 'Aaron' ↓

Aaron has danced all the way around and then right to the core of that phenomenon we know as “liveblogging”: Area Code of the Beast. Most importantly, he reminds me of where to follow today’s matches while hard at work at my new office.

“Unfortunate RSS Accidents” is brought to you by Aaron Straup Cope, blogger extraordinaire and, recently, an unparalelled mover of house and home. Aaron’s made a recent post about “Things I like about San Francisco”, which is fine. Unfortunately, though, his RSS feed sends only headlines. So if you read his feed, you would have seen the following:

Not exactly what he meant, I don’t think!

In the land of the sour dough baguette, the burrito is king.

Flickr has been acquired by Yahoo. I bet a lot of people are going to be negative about this, but not me. I prefer a wait and see approach. But I will say that I bet Aaron never imagined he’d work for Yahoo!

new site from Cam Barrett and Joe Stump: TodaysPapers.com. Adding community features to news stories from all over the web. I wonder if Aaron’s NYTimes stuff could add something to this? Trouble is Aaron has been so very coy about his /knows/ stuff that I’m not sure I follow what it is.

1. The depth of field of photographs I take with my old digital camera sucks
2. It takes but a few days to bond with a puppy, but it takes two weeks to really develop a relationship
3. I can live without blogging just fine. I knew that already, but taking a week off confirmed it. I don’t want to or intend to stop, though
4. Aaron, with a beard and pilot’s glasses, bears some resemblance to the old unabomber sketch that they circulated a few years ago
5. Jish is still Jish. This is unquestionably a good thing, and it was nice to have a quick visit with the man while he was here
6. BBQs are great cooking devices
7. Vacations are, in general, wonderful things.