Stephen King in On Writing:
If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.
Debt by David Graeber:
If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank.
Hey, don’t be alarmed or anything but the President of Mexico, the head honcho, the big guy in charge, has tweeted that one of his engineers has taken a photo of an elf. Just another day south o’ the border.
I’ve just had my peak Mexican moment. I delivered a dad joke in Spanish and it was perfect.
I’m at our local sushi restaurant ordering takeaway dinner and whilst waiting at the bar they offer me a margarita, and you don’t say no to a margarita in Baja.
I finish it, and he gestured towards my empty glass to which I reply “esta roto” which means “it’s broken” whilst inspecting the bottom of my glass, implying that the drink must have fallen out of the bottom.
He laughs, I laugh, I’m now a Mexican dad and can never leave.
If you want surf and snow in the same trip, I can definitely recommend Los Angeles today.
Drove past this park today and noticed something interesting on Google Maps at (33.6621623, -117.8775484).
I wonder how many aircraft the Google Maps aerial photographers have captured?
Now I’ve just got to hope the people writing memos or sending emails regarding Bel’s Guide don’t stop me.
Do you think Carls Sr. is proud of his son?
This is good content, we should podcast about it.
Visited the Japanese mothership (aka Canon campus) in Los Angeles and asked them to clean my cameras and lenses.
Steve Jobs in 1984 spotting a Macintosh in the wild for the first time.
I couldn’t begin to imagine the what he was feeling seeing a product he knew so intimately, that his team had worked on endlessly, to see from the street it just being used by someone in an office.
I tried but it turns out you can’t go Out before you go In
It’s so special to be in LA to watch the city fall to pieces with my own eyes.
‘dat light + reflection
Los Angeles bound for a few days, thankfully it’s raining so we won’t stay long enough for it to make us soft.
Goldie, taking full advantage of the Shatner Seat
What a time to be alive
Pure second child energy.
I’m going to start sneaking in to her room while she sleeps and bottling some of that excess second child energy and selling it to soldiers and personal trainers who need to get hyped up.
