Infospigot: The ChroniclesThe times, the life, the dribbling, of an information spigot.(Untitled)- June 29, 2004 Winds of blog change OK, for reasons explained elsewhere and probably in the great scheme of things not all that very exciting or interesting to the world at large, I'm done with the Radio blogware and am continuing my online spouting activities through an outfit called Typepad. My new blog address is infospigot.typepad.com. I'll also have infospigot.com redirect to that site. Meantime, this site will remain online at least until I've figure out how to make the archived posts available...http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/28.html#a169 (Untitled)- June 22, 2004 Me and Kate and SpaceShipOne Just back from covering the first private manned space flight in history. It was a beautiful event, really, and a busy 38 hours spent driving down to the launch site in Mojave, California, attending a press conference on the launch of SpaceShipOne, driving to our motel 25 miles away, writing, sleeping four hours, getting up, driving to the launch site, talking to folks, watching the launch, writing, going to another press conference, writing, and driving back to...http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/21.html#a167 (Untitled)- June 17, 2004 Anniversary: Third-rate burglary It's June 17, the thirty-second anniversary of the Watergate break-in. Man, does Nixon look good now. But I digress. To mark the occasion, a minor-league baseball club in New Hampshire called the Nashua Pride is sponsoring a giveaway: The first 1,000 fans through the gates will get Richard Nixon bobblehead dolls. And that's not all! Anyone named Woodward or Bernstein will be admitted free, public-address announcements will be suspended for 18 and a half minutes..http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/17.html#a166 (Untitled)- June 17, 2004 We regret the error ... Well, a couple posts down, I mildly celebrated the first story in my renewed freelance writing career, about a private space launch this coming Monday. And in the first couple of hours after my story was posted on Wired News, I got a couple of very nice notes from readers. But instead of wanting to tell me what a genius I am, they wanted to point out a mistake. I reported that SpaceShipOne rode on top of its carrier plane. That's not necessarily logical, but that's the..http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/17.html#a165 (Untitled)- June 17, 2004 And speaking of spaceflight BoingBoing is hosting a blog account of preparation's for Monday's launch of SpaceShipOne from Mojave. Two posts so far: part one and part two. Nice on-the-ground color, along with valuable advice for the mini- or maxi-horde that might descend on Mojave for the launch: "BRING LOTS OF WATER! ... Our rule of thumb out here: if you're not peeing every couple of hours, you're not drinking enough."http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/17.html#a164 (Untitled)- June 17, 2004 Back in print ... Or back online. Or back in the saddle. Or something. In any case, I've got a story this morning on Wired News, about the first private manned space launch: "Something big is supposed to happen in the sky above the California desert town of Mojave early Monday. Just after dawn, a spindly white jet plane is scheduled to ascend from an airstrip with a rocket ship strapped on top. ..." Feels good to have something out there in print, or in bits, or whatever, again.http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/17.html#a163 (Untitled)- June 16, 2004 'Sixteenth today it is' A fictional 100th anniversary: The action in "Ulysses" was set on June 16, 1904. There's a nice editorial in The New York Times marking the occasion. It notes that while the novel has become a symbol of impossible, elitist literature -- a perception sadly reflected in a human-on-the-street poll today in the San Francisco Chronicle -- it's actually anything but inaccessible: "Its stuff is the common life of man, woman and child. You take what you can, loping over the.http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/16.html#a162 (Untitled)- June 15, 2004 They're off!Eamon and Sakura at the airport this morning, about an hour and a half before they took off for Tokyo. The clerk at the airline desk didn't quite get it when Eamon said he didn't have a return ticket: He's going to Japan to stay (well, his initial spousal visa is good for a year and will be renewable for three years). Eamon and Sakura's trip has been coming for such a long time that I think I took it kind of for granted and only thought briefly about how I'd feel when they...http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/14.html#a161 (Untitled)- June 15, 2004 Ralph Wiley, 1952-2004 Just saw this on ESPN: Ralph Wiley, an author who worked on the network and for a long time as a feature writer for Sports Illustrated, died. OK: I have not read one of Ralph Wiley's books, and didn't follow his magazine career avidly. But I remember him when we were both "copy clerks" (an upgrade from "copyboy") at the Oakland Tribune in 1977. I was personally in a pretty bad state at the time -- was angry with my life and the paper and treated the job like a piece of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/14.html#a160 (Untitled)- June 13, 2004 Friendly advice From fuckinggoogleit.com. As in: Q.: How many more people voted for Gore than Bush in 2000 A.: How the hell should I know Why don't you fucking Google it. By way of John Battelle's Searchblog.http://radio.weblogs.com/0130494/2004/06/12.html#a159 |