http://www.micahsaul.com/blag bated breath and an overwhelming sense of dread Tue, 12 May 2009 21:10:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At 10:22 pm tonight, it will have been three years since I lost my best friend, writing partner, travel companion, and intellectual goad Parker Zane Allen. Three fucking years... The last two May 12s have been... Well, they've been bad. I've done a lot of screaming into the void and ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/05/1979-2006/ Last night, I started writing a post about journals and technology: I used to write daily in an observation journal. It started as an assignment in a fiction writing class at SFSU. Every day, I’d carry around my Moleskine daily journal and, when inspiration struck, jot down a sentence or two. ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/04/journaling-synchronicity-and-twitter/ Been back for a week now, and I’m just sort of starting to wrap my head around the whole insane mess that was SXSWi 2009. I’ll try to be posting more thoughts over the next few days, but I’m going to start with a couple stories about panels I sat ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/03/sxswi-thoughts-part-1-the-internet-dating-clusterfuck-and-dont-get-me-started-on-death/ Micah Saul's rules for travel: + Sit as close to the front of the plane as possible. This allows you easy access to the door as soon as the plane lands. + Ignore the taxis and airport shuttles. If your hotel does not have a free shuttle, find a city bus (got ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/03/sxsw-day-0/ Oh karaoke. I've done more than my share, which is kinda hilarious considering how horribly afraid of singing in front of people I get. Whiskey is my friend. ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/02/if-you-give-me-enough-bourbon-ill-sing-these-songs-at-a-karaoke-bar/ So, that last post was from plinky, a pretty awesome new service that provides daily prompts to help you formulate a blog post. The prompt in question was "Name three songs you'd put on a road trip mix tape." You input artist names, songs, and short descriptions, and it automatically ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/01/plinky-and-some-other-things/ Aug 2003, PZA and I drove from San Francisco to NYC in exactly 3 days. We swapped, back and forth, 4 hours on, 4 hours off. Only stops were Boulder, CO for 4 hours and Chicago for ~10. Noon on Thursday we got on the Bay Bridge. Hit ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/01/pza-and-me-sf-nyc-aug-2003/ So, 2008 has come and gone, and my non-resolution lasted all of a week or two. What the fuck ever. 2008 was an interesting one, but the important parts came only at the very end. Newly single, I made some interesting realizations that have since come out elsewhere. Boiling them down to ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2009/01/lets-try-this-again/ Pony, originally uploaded by micahsaul. http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2008/07/pony/ Man, that thing to the right should be awesome. See, Axiotron's Modbook is a modded Macbook with GPS functionality and a Wacom digitizer. It's a slate style tablet PC built from Apple hardware. What's not to love, right? Unfortunately, the answer is quite a lot. Let's start by looking at ... http://www.micahsaul.com/blag/2008/01/notes-from-macworld-part-2-modbook-close-but-not-quite/