Cannon Beach, Oregon
Lots of violence in this round-up. Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Smashing Machine, Slim Susie, Grindhouse: Planet Terror and Grindhouse: Deathproof.
Nic goes to the polls and discovers you need two proofs of identity to vote in Ariz. now.
My daughter hears anti-semitism and blissfully misinterprets it.
Excellent collection of writing from the great David Foster Wallace.
Michael Connelly delivers a weak Harry Bosch novel.
Dennis Lehane manages to write a novel that is too noir for Nic.
Reflections from Macworld 2008.
Nic reports from Macworld 2008.
Nice book on the commoditization of corporate IT services. Worth reading for anybody in the field.
Entertaining book about a man’s obsessive quest to become a professional chef.
Cox Communications isn’t great at, well, communicating.
Excellent fantasy from China Miéville.
For the word nerds.
Nic loses sight of his daughter at the store and freaks out.
We adopt a third cat, Athena Fairy Princess.
A tentative debut novel from Scott Lynch.
How the Flip Video is turning the amateur video recording industry on its head.
Carl Hiaasen wants you to not visit Florida.
A disappointing non-Rebus novel from Ian Rankin.
Nic highly recommends OpenDNS if you have children who use the Internet.