Author: paul

How can AT&T be smart enough to offer a revolutionary device like the iPhone, which is all about delightful user experience, and yet let their own customer communications be a chilling reminder how little phone companies care about their users? There, in a nutshell, is the case for the unlocked iPhone. [From Q: what’s The worst thing you can do with an iphone?]

AT&T doesn’t offer the iPhone, in the sense of having any input into it’s design. Apple did all that.

Remember, never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

This book is well worth your time if you think the world still has some unexplored or undiscovered wonders.

The idea of eating fresh huckleberries more than 300 feet up in the crown of a redwood tree boggles the mind. But the canopies of those western giants are as rich in diversity as those in the tropical rain forests. And 97% of them are gone.

Almost halfway through it in one sitting. Some odd characters but it’s an unusual pursuit: it makes sense.

Just finished it. Amazing book. The idea of climbing into a tree that is taller than a football field is long and sleeping in it, let alone getting married or spending a wedding night in one, is too much for me.

It has seemed for some time that all the big records were set, all the mountains climbed, but here as some people discovering new things, new ecosystems, that we never imagined. Trees, gardens, small animals, all them being born and living their lives in the redwood canopy, with water, soil, and all their nutritional needs covered. And the adaptive cunning of the red vole, chief food source of the northern spotted owl, making its home in a redwood where owls wouldn’t look for it, but making trips across to Douglas firs for food.

When some people want to go into orbit, undiscovered worlds exist within 400 feet of the ground.