Flying East to West is not so bad. Austin to CA leaves me with no abstracted time lost. West to East, though. The day dissolves, exhausting. #
@Harvey1966 If only Phillips could patent ambient weather technology, they’d make media viewing so much better! #
@Harvey1966 Ever read the Rifters trilogy by Peter Watts? Good fiction about bad [...]

@RandomNickname Yep, ridiculous, but not too much of a bother. I’ll get reimbursed. Just a nice ’surprise’ is all. #
Could use a longer stay by the bay. Mr. Thomas was a great host, met other good people and the city was fun. #
Standing on an escalator? Stand to the right. #
Want to pass on an [...]

Press tour in SF done. On BART to visit uncle and his fiancee. SF is a great city, so big, diverse. #
Smoke haze is terrible in the bay right now. Looks worse than LA from here. #
Noon checkout at the hotel allows for last minute shower–@nullspeak is on his way down to rescue me from [...]

Hotel room doesnt have working ac — hot air not good on throat. Waking up for real now. #

Brave and heroic deeds have been performed by @ddifede and @jeffdanger. #
Just landed at SFO. #
At the PR folks’ office in San Francisco, wired up and answering email. Remote working, hooray! #
@jonjones Sounds like you ought to call out the elephant in the room. #
@didifede The advancement of remote desktop technology has allowed me to [...]

Warren Ellis recounts the difficulty of shaking many hands in a short period of time.
When I graduated from the University of Washington, I walked across the stage and shook the hand of the President of the University. He winced as I shook, and I thought to myself, “Wow, do I have a booger hanging out [...]

@didifede Limbik is great! #
@RandomNickname I made a one legged creature just fine. It was actually pretty cute. #
Short run through the thick air. Later this week I’ll be in SF. Our low doesn’t even make it down to their high. I think I’ll bring a coat. #
Picked up laundry from cleaners. I enjoy clean [...]

Nighttime view from the office., originally uploaded by rmattson.

I’m flying out to San Francisco tomorrow for a bit of business in the big city, and our publisher was kind enough to book my flight for me. The 7:10am flight out of Austin on United is apparently not the most popular, as there are a tremendous number of open seats. That’s fantastic, it means [...]

Black car and sun. No fun. #