2 posts tagged “tivo”
That's what C. said when I told her I had sent in an application to Google the other day. I guess a friend of hers told her a few weeks ago that they had heard somewhere that Google gets 1,500 applications a day. It feels like the slush pile all over again, but I choose to be optimistic.
I saw in this morning's WSJ that TiVo and Amazon are teaming up to bring Unbox video to TiVo boxes. Yet another prediction from my Strategic Planning final project becomes reality. Interesting, and sometimes unsettling, but always satisfying how that works.
And now it's time for the regular "books I've read recently" section.
David Kamp, The United States of Arugula
A history of what people in the U.S. eat. I found the sections on Craig Claiborne and the Chez Panisse alumni particularly interesting.
Charles Seife, Decoding The Universe
An overview of the extent to which information theory underlies our lives and the universe itself, with excursions into genetics, thermodynamics and other branches of physics. Fascinating stuff.
Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, Hidden Kitchens
Phil Dusenberry, Then We Set His Hair On Fire
I'm ancient enough to remember a series of commercials by Pacific Telesis (before they were assimilated into the company that became the "new at&t") with the tagline "Telesis: progress, intelligently planned". I remember that I liked those, although I can't remember their content now other than one talking about the future and what ISDN services would bring. (ISDN! That's how old these were!)
Anyway: I had a phone interview today that was a follow-on to one on Friday. This is looking promising. I can't really say more than that just yet, but I have a good feeling about it.
I've packed our old TiVo, which I haven't used in two years because it's not equipped for a network connection (we don't have a landline here at the apartment, and it needs a new hard drive anyway -- I'll have to order one from Weaknees when we get there). It's going in a box to SoCal tomorrow. I've also assembled a set of cables for the car (iPod car kit, car chargers for our mobile phones, car mounting kit for the Sirius receiver, etc...) that I'm moving down there tomorrow.
Anyway, I thought that this was progress, albeit of a different sort, and not so intelligently planned or directed.
