Hidden City Curiosities

On my way to Fairchild Tropical Garden for the International Orchid Festival.

Mar 2nd

Is Twitter awake today?

Mar 2nd

I love orchids, but I’m kind of over taking pictures of them. A better camera might change...

Mar 2nd

There are people belly dancing to Brazilian and Columbian music. it’s a bit odd, to say the...

Mar 2nd

I’m having in my last tweets before Twitter shuts down for the night. Or as they say,...

Mar 2nd

I can’t keep going to events at places so loud I can’t hear anyone. I must be getting...

Mar 2nd

Good morning! I’m at Versailles restaurant waiting for the Road Burn crew from FreshBooks.

Mar 1st

On my way to a friend’s housewarming party. I could use a night off

Feb 29th

Twitter is the Britney of web apps: hopelessly wrecked and barely competent, but still gets plenty...

Feb 29th

How exciting! One of my users spawned a Notes agent that was attempting to resend every message on...

Feb 29th

After the fun and inspiration of @barcampmiami it is hard to go back to the drudgery of the day job.

Feb 29th

How exciting! One of my users just spawned a Notes agent that was attempting to resend every message...

Feb 29th

But I think I see Jason having a drink at the other of the bar.

Feb 29th

I can’t tell if my words are getting through, as Twitter keeps throwing error messages.

Feb 29th

At the Nokia party.

Feb 29th

Party’s wall-to-wall!

Feb 29th

The Nokia S60 Ambassadors program reminds me of old gaming evangelist programs. Still an intriguing...

Feb 29th

The presentation on Coworking spaces has piqued my interest, even though I don’t actually need...

Feb 28th

At PR presentation: “As soon as we started our podcast we mentioned a blog, their vanity...

Feb 28th

Made it to BarCamp Miami. @alexdc is getting things started now.

Feb 28th

Attending session on inventing and brainstorming.

Feb 28th

Fascinating. Is McCain ineligible to be president?...

Feb 28th

I just got spam from Fidel Castro offering me a cheap MacBook Pro. Who knew he was an Apple fan? He...

Feb 28th

Good news for me (and other Sprint users): Unlimited everything including data for $99/month....

Feb 28th

Also, @balou is the bee’s knees. That is all.

Feb 28th

It is delightfully brisk outside. Sadly, I have to return to my office.

Feb 27th

I have just learned to my (limited) surprise that I am “impossibly stubborn.” Harumph!

Feb 27th

I never thought I would be happy to hear the Vista startup sound.

Feb 27th

Attempting to repair Vista on my Lifebook. I am cautiously optimistic it won’t require a...

Feb 27th

The fog has not yet lifted, but we cannot curb our speed.

Feb 27th

Man, my circadian rhythms are like all jacked up! Seriously!

Feb 27th

Power just returned downtown.

Feb 26th

Interesting, Turkey Point is the cause according to my FPL sources.

Feb 26th

All of downtown Miami seems to be blacked out. Anyone hear anything?

Feb 26th

It is that awkward season in CorpWorld, wherein I do battle with HR to get my team the raises they...

Feb 26th

The well-loved @BlueTeddy is now out of surgery and in recovery.

Feb 26th

What, exactly, frightens my subconscious to the extent that I’m no longer allowed to sleep?

Feb 26th

My day just improved significantly with the arrival of @apelad’s Laugh-Out-Loud Cats book!

Feb 25th

The silicon chip inside my head is set to overload.

Feb 25th

Enough Hollywood — back to reality.

Feb 25th

At least TWBB has won *something*…

Feb 25th

I’m going to go back and count how many Best Pictures I’ve seen. I think I’ve seen...

Feb 25th

Okay, that is the coolest thing this year.

Feb 25th

Good heavens, the honorary Oscar recipient sounds amazing for being over 90!

Feb 25th

I love Tilda Swinton…

Feb 25th

And now I love her more… lol

Feb 25th

Awww, she was so surprised, and so sweet.

Feb 25th

It just occurred to me that this year’s “In Memoriam” segment will include Heath...

Feb 25th

I would be curious to hear actual practitioners of the technical areas explain why some of these...

Feb 25th

Whaddya know?! Sweeney won!

Feb 25th

I really loved Ratatouille, but I was hoping for an upset by Persepolis.

Feb 25th

For Art Direction I am really hoping for Sweeney Todd. But I’m not doing we’ll tonight.

Feb 25th

I wish I was nursing a hangover, but am instead nursing a severe sunburn. O vicious daytime orb, why...

Feb 25th

Seeing Vanilla Ice is less surprising than @alesh using Twitter again. These must be the end times.

Feb 23rd

Cognitive dissonance is seeing Vanilla Ice at the Ren Fest.

Feb 23rd

At the Renaissance Festival, flashing back to a previous life and job.

Feb 23rd

Good morning, twitterati.

Feb 23rd

I had thought about getting up to watch the sun come up this morning, but that was before last...

Feb 22nd

For what they are worth, here are my own woefully inadequate photos from this morning’s event:...

Feb 21st

Social media breakfast completed just in time for the torrents of pain to begin.

Feb 21st

Discussing psychic phenomenon at breakfast.

Feb 21st

And now we’re broadcasting live again on… blog tv? @jeffpulver has mentioned it, I am...

Feb 21st

Corned beef hash ordered, the party continues.

Feb 21st

Large groups of people wearing tags (physical and otherwise) indicate social network gatherings, it...

Feb 21st

On my way to @jeffpulver’s Miami breakfast. Mmm, networking and corned beef hash!

Feb 21st

With the exception of 10a-12 noon tomorrow I’m likely to be off-line for a bit, taking care of...

Feb 20th

In the morning’s haste I seem to have left my glass of the milk of human kindness on the...

Feb 19th

You just entered your 40s, @alexdc? A mere child you are…

Feb 19th

Man, I’m dreading going to the office. It’s going to be all-Castro, all the time today.

Feb 19th

Listening to Warren Zevon’s last CD was probably a mistake, given my melancholy state of mind....

Feb 18th

An ancient man in a guayabera shuffled into the elevator. As the doors closed his cell phone rang:...

Feb 18th

Downtown Miami is so thoroughly government based that on a Monday holiday even the sidewalk coffee...

Feb 18th

“Rise from the dead, ye little head” is the funniest Viagra spam subject I’ve seen...

Feb 17th

The cool thing about it is that is purports to be compensation for people taken in by Nigerian...

Feb 16th

I love hubris of the bit of Nigerian spam I just received, claiming to be from “Kofi...

Feb 16th

On my third cup of coffee, trying to write my way out of a funk. Unfortunately, the Haitian vodou...

Feb 16th

Looking for an ongoing and free web comic? Try Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield’s FreakAngels:...

Feb 15th

Amazon’s return policy is quite nice, and their customer service is great, in my experience. I...

Feb 15th

[again] Today is a day for love. Do your part to support love by fighting the Florida’s...

Feb 14th

[Again] Today is a day for love. Do your part to support love by fighting the anti-love amendment in...

Feb 14th

I wonder if the heart notification works on people who aren’t following you. It could be a...

Feb 14th

Today is a day for love. Why not do your part to support love by fighting the anti-love amendment in...

Feb 14th

Happy Valentine’s Day to those who celebrate it! To the rest, I hope it passes swiftly and...

Feb 14th

Waiting for a status to change from “Out for delivery” to “Delivered” is low...

Feb 13th

When you wake in the small hours with a sense of ill-defined despair, sleep is slow to return.

Feb 13th

I am somewhat surprised that I did not wake up in Oz, given the amount of howling outside my windows...

Feb 13th

This would be a very good day to play hooky, but alas! My sense of obligation is too strong.

Feb 13th

Hmm, I notice that I am no longer seeing replies in my feed. Ah, Twitter, the bumbling GWB of web...

Feb 13th

I don’t think I’ve mentioned lately how much I abhor Miami Beach parking. So far my day...

Feb 12th

How bizarre. My mail accounts just got pounded by robo-spam from the Huckabee campaign, 100s of...

Feb 11th

They call it Stormy Monday…

Feb 11th

Strange things pass through the mind in the wee, small hours, but as long as they keep moving,...

Feb 11th

I had no idea that Shuckers would end up this chilly. All these bloggers seem to be thin skinned, as...

Feb 11th

We’ve now reached the obsessive photography portion of the evening.

Feb 11th

Obviously I need to look at the mailing lists more often, @devbear. I would have loved to have seen...

Feb 11th

Interested in the history of Disney World Orlando? You may like to read this scanned preview guide -...

Feb 10th

I’m glad you like the Moore quote, new friend @zackgonzales! It’s from a story written...

Feb 10th

“All words are magic words[…]”. — Alan Moore, in “Alphabets of...

Feb 10th

I occasionally get the urge to move into non-textual media. Then I remember I have a face for radio...

Feb 9th

Heard in the office:” We no longer have the luxury of honesty!”

Feb 8th

Ninety minutes of sleep is still better than no sleep, I suppose.

Feb 8th

Circumstances beyond my control are seriously disrupting my weekend plans. Damn it.

Feb 8th

On reflection, though, they are circumstances that may well have been within the control of others.

Feb 8th

If I hear another person refer to their presentation as their “deck” I’m going to...

Feb 7th

Is it really that hard to understand that there’s a difference between a slogan and a project...

Feb 7th

I really hate cell phones right now, in the “can’t live with ‘em, can’t live...

Feb 7th

For @balou: Skull-A-Day [http://www.skulladay.blogspot.com/]

Feb 7th

I suspect I am not smart or patient enough to unravel the useless and bewildering US wireless phone...

Feb 7th

Hello there, @apelad! I’m eagerly awaiting the arrival of my copy of your Laugh-Out-Loud Cats...

Feb 6th

For reasons I cannot disclose, today I am channeling Get Smart’s Agent 86:”Missed me by...

Feb 6th

I don’t know what @geosteph is talking about, but reading Bester Is always a good...

Feb 5th

The range of opinions on th Super Bowl ads in my feed is wide, but I don’t think it means...

Feb 4th

At Monty’s with local web people for Super Bowl festivities. There are cute chicks here, and...

Feb 3rd

I just discovered that Blogger now supports multiple identity types for comments, including TypeKey,...

Feb 3rd

Still no sleep, but preparing to move on with the day.

Feb 3rd

Good morning, @jeffpulver!

Feb 3rd

Is the clarity of sleeplessness real or illusory?

Feb 3rd

No luck with sleep. Wide awake, and too much on my mind. Things change so quickly these days.

Feb 3rd

I’m giving up and going to stare at the ceiling for a while. Enjoy your evenings, kids!

Feb 3rd

How swiftly moods can change.

Feb 3rd

Opposites? I’m at the symphony, @balou’s at the monster truck rally. We’re both...

Feb 3rd

Settling in at the Lincoln Theater for an evening of Stravinsky. The hall is surprisingly crowded...

Feb 2nd

Good heavens! there’s an antique show on the beach that has thrown parking into uncut chaos!...

Feb 2nd

I tripped the merry-go-round.

Feb 1st