My best friend Zane was just in town for a few days, doing sound and tour managing. It was really good to see him, and catch up. He lives in LA and tours for a good part of the year, so we don’t get to see each other as much as we’d like to. So having him in town for two days was a real treat.

We Make Money Not Art has an interesting post up with notes from Usman Haque’s keynote from We Love Technology, entitled I Hate Technology. He makes some interesting points about technology’s illusion of power and issues of “control, power and money and the way they are inlaid in the concept of technology.”

If Eyebeam says it’s ok, then it’s ok, right?

PS: Reblogging the reblog: Is this the point of pure simulation? Or just adding to the cacophony of the internet?

Karen in front of the de Young Museum

My friend Karen was in town this weekend from New York. We went around town, including the SFMOMA, and saw the new Felix Schramm exhibit there, which I would highly recommend if you happen to be in SF between now and September 30. Also, today we trekked out to Bernal Heights, to MaggieMudd’s, to get Karen a vegan sundae (which was pretty damn good).

Karen enjoying her vegan sundae and Philz coffee