• Pink Floyd is rushing their digitally remastered CD box set for back2school season. Its last. End of an era. “The Wall” is coming down and we “don’t need no education”. Just download it. News for free. Music for free. Phone calls for free. Even when you ask the butcher for a cheaper cut of meat, that…

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  • Tech buying spree

    Even the President couldn’t help visiting Facebook campus in Palo Alto two weeks ago, and in Austin. California companies now talk of an Austin strategy, just like GE back in the 90’s with  India. I finally realized the wisdom of Alex who made millions from his dollar-per-dot concept. Except this time, it will be the buttons (Like by…

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  • My Japanese tutors

    Ishiguro, Fukuyama, Kawasaki and Murakami. I read Ishiguro in bed, watched Fukuyama on Charlie Rose, watch Kawasaki interview on his latest book Enchantment and dream on with characters in Murukami’s novels. Multi-media tutors. They might look Asian, but speak and write perfect English. Best of both worlds. Like Singapore or Hongkong. Ishiguro penned beautiful prose and plot, that…

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  • Here comes the beaver or the beer. Whatever handy to help men cope with his “manpression”. It is common knowledge that men hardly ask for directions when lost, much less share their problems. Women fare better, whether it’s over sweet, or sweat. Jodi Foster, most admired for being an accomplished Yale actress-director, has had frequent run-ins with the…

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  • 3D and 4G

    At the most elementary level, we got the chip set. That is about to change, from “flat like a sheet of paper”” to 3D chip, announced Intel (which made Applied Materials jump to its 3.9 Billion acquisition of Varian Semiconductor to keep pace). Our world is about to change once again, not to the tune…

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  • Younger generations are growing up digital. I grow old in post 9/11. We were bumping along, thinking the dot.com burst was the story of the Century. Then, the unthinkable happened. Brave were the men on United Flight 93. Our lives have never been the same since (collective survivor’s guilt).  An act of outright violence needed to…

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  • Reality cross-over

    In a  God-Father scene, the execution order was carried out as cut-away from the black-tie wedding scene. Lately, President Obama in Brazil attending state dinner (while France-led air strike was carried out over Libya no-fly zone ), and two nights ago at the White House Correspondents’ dinner (while the takedown was carried out in Pakistan). Hollywood materials. (at…

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  • Justice we can use

    Some people go through life without experiencing love. But today, we all experience justice. Put the economy, the environment , and the bad debt aside. It’s the kind of justice we can use. Black and white kind of justice. Not just the American way. It’s universal. It brought closure to the 3000 families and a plundering decade.…

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  • Encoded memories

    In a fictional tale of modern madness, the author of “the Remains of the Day” brought to us “Never let Me Go”. A famous quote from the school principal (where students were raised and taught to become “donors” since they were genetic copies made from real people to someday called on to offer their body parts…

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  • Transparent trail

    I saved up my visual history in 3/4 inch, VHS, slides, prints, CDs, hard-drive, flashdrive and cloud. Not so much for me, but for my daughters . That collage documented my fits and starts. Each person is a narrative whose ending remains a mystery ( ‘in my end, is my beginning”). In the Year of Magical Thinking, the widow-writer kept wishing that…

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