david ascher

Hopefully I can now easily blog using my phone. Why? No good answer so far, except that it’s something else I can now do during “interstitials”…

I’m sitting outside the office waiting for the family to join me for a viewing of Deep Sea 3D, and appreciating the fact that the truly nice folks at Take5 cafe leave their wifi on after they close. Thanks!

More thoughts about Foo Camp (for those who don’t know, it’s this weird but nice gathering of mostly geeky folks in Sebastopol, CA, for a weekend of camping and chatting). Many of the things I most liked about Foo Camp were the campiest (pun intended). For example, while there wasn’t that much of a bonfire [...]

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Foo camp this weekend was a lot of things, but most of all it was uplifting. Something about the confluence of so many high energy, high output, high optimism people, combined with their willingness to try new things, meet new people, and not necessarily know it all, was very inspiring. Things to talk about in [...]

P1140566 Originally uploaded by David Ascher. So the airstream comes with a built-in 8-track player. I didn’t have any 8-tracks (imagine!). Luckily, craigslist is here to facilitate all these weird transactions. Now I have a box of 69 8-tracks, most of them in the original packaging, to build a soundtrack for Gambier. A delightful mixture [...]

P1140332.JPG Originally uploaded by David Ascher. It turns out, with enough determination, you can fit a 31-foot trailer on a much smaller barge and not lose it all in the sea… There’s a full set of pictures detailing the trip if you’re curious.