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So I’m doing research for this play I’m working on, and our good friend Rick sent me this TED Talk that he thought would be useful: Rick Smolan Tells the Story of a Girl. I love TED Talks and I really liked this one. But it was the user comments about the piece that got [...]

I’ve noticed lately that when I tell people that my job is “to restore a sense of childlike wonder to peoples’ lives”, they take me seriously and don’t seem to understand that this is a joke that I stole from Fake Steve Jobs. I also sometimes say that in order to write I need to [...]

The other day I was hanging out with a good friend of ours, shootin the shit about relationships. “Do you think that you could date a civilian?” she asked. By this she meant “someone that doesn’t work in the entertainment industry”. That night as I lay snug and smug in my bed, I chuckled to [...]

So yours truly pulled down the latest iPhone SDK 3.2 beta last Friday and dug in, checking out the new iPad Simulator and associated sample code to see what there was to see. I will always love programming. Programming taught me a lot about writing — how to be structural, how to break large ideas [...]

So I finally watched Dead Poets Society (it’s frequently mentioned in The Inside Story as a case study) and was amused to note that the photograph they used of Robin Williams as a teenager is one that I and many of my old chums are familiar with. It hangs in the library of Redwood High [...]