Old School

Posted by banane on May 16th, 2008 — in about writing, local color

I felt like writing an old-fashioned blog post. The photo above is another one from the Cooper-Molera adobe in Monterey. It’s architecturally a blend of Mexican/Californian and New England. Like Cape Cod meets Baja.
I’m doing a million things, and doing nothing. Moving in molasses. I have an article due for MarketingProfs, and two big code [...]

Good Writing

Posted by banane on May 5th, 2008 — in about writing, annaboka, walk to work

I cleaned out my bookshelf, dusted off some old books I have kept around but haven’t read. Namely, Howards End (no apostrophe, just discovered that).
I really enjoy the website GoodReads, and hope Annaboka will someday be as useful. One of the reviews on there of Howard’s End lauds the third chapter as the best chapter [...]

Talking to My Splogger

Posted by banane on April 26th, 2008 — in about writing, technology

So, mimickry is the sincerest form of flattery. Thursday, a man in San Diego copied my workblog and called it his own. He called me today (Saturday)- I had wanted him to call me if anything was unclear about my request, essentially to cease and desist use of my writing on his servers.
He explained [...]

(Not) Writing For Money

Posted by banane on March 23rd, 2008 — in about writing, technology

I met my neighbor at the gym- she’s a professional writer- and we ended up chatting on our way back to North Beach through parks and alleys, until our paths split. She was surprised that my day job didn’t involve writing, since we usually talk about each other’s novels in progress, and she knows [...]

Recent Reads: 3 Cups of Tea

Posted by banane on March 10th, 2008 — in about writing

My mom left a book at my house the other day- told me that everyone was reading it- so I picked it up the other day and literally didn’t get off the couch for hours: it’s 3 Cups of Tea. The story is about a guy who failed to climb K2, and lost his way [...]

Finishing Things

Posted by banane on March 3rd, 2008 — in about writing, local color, technology

I’m just alerting you to the fact that I am working on finishing my business idea, which is Annaboka (http://www.annaboka.com) anna+book, in Swedish. I am working on the login process, so the minute I iron out the irregularities, I will open it up to whomever is interested. I gave it an allotted time of 2 [...]

Cakes

Posted by banane on January 30th, 2008 — in about writing

“Jack, is your ventilator working?” Ahmad asks from behind his mask. He’s preparing to get up. He can barely move his legs in gravity controlled moon boots.
Jack nods- their radio’d together through the helmets. He wants to head to the translucent green goo waterfall and then survey some damage done to their van after [...]

Creativity

Posted by banane on January 27th, 2008 — in about writing, technology

Chatting with a bunch of folks on the SF WoW mailing list on creativity- via programming, or crafts- and it led me to think in general that there are two buckets of creativity. On one hand- creating something whole, by yourself, from beginning to end, and on the other- group projects that have feedback. [...]

What Not to Blog

Posted by banane on January 9th, 2008 — in about writing, technology

I know, you shouldn’t tell the world you drank a lot, but hey, there were a lot of other people, well at least 5, and it was New Year’s Eve. In a rash of weirdness I asked the psychic that my friend hired for the party questions about my business idea. Now I know why [...]

Deserved Success

Posted by banane on December 29th, 2007 — in about writing, local color, technology

I had to unsubscribe from Laughing Squid and Valleywag for a while- I realized that despite writing two novels that lambasted a certain attitude expressed inside- if you notice most of my evil murderers/serial killers are tech journalists- I still had a weird hang-up about it. Laughing Squid is more of a social [...]