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Imagine: Print’s Not Dead

A free copy of Imagine Media’s new Fuse Magazine arrived with my most recent issue of Business 2.0. Once I got over the awful title and tagline (“Work. Life. Style.” Blech.), I realized the design and photography are excellent, some of the best magazine work I’ve seen all year. Its balance of transitional serif typography and top-notch, new school photography is striking in its simple elegance. As for content, well, the jury’s still out…

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MacTurncoat

Aside from the fact that it’s a little pokey, the ultra-compact go-anywhereness of my four month old Sony PCG-SR7K VAIO Notebook makes it the best computer I’ve ever owned. The robustness of Windows 2000 has even won me over. It’s sad, but the Macintosh loyalist in me has nearly dwindled away. Hopefully, Apple will refresh their currently moribund product line with dramatically improved hardware that evidences some truly different thinking at Macworld Expo in January. If they don’t, then that’ll likely be the end of my long-running association with the Mac OS.

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You Can Never Go Home Again… Again

Way back in September, I wrote somewhat cheekily, “All of my Asia plans may as well be on indefinite hiatus if I find myself still here, handing out mini-sized candy bars to costumed trick-or-treaters at Halloween.” Ugh.

It’s early December now, and not only did I see Halloween go by, I also had turkey for Thanksgiving and I’ve even nearly finished my holiday shopping. All of this from the cozy confines of the borough of Manhattan, fifteen thousand miles away from my sock drawer in Singapore. Which is not to say that it’s been misery for me since I left Singapore. I’ve actually had quite a bit of fun, and I feel fortunate for the opportunities to do the work I’ve done and to spend more time with the friends I thought I’d left behind in July.

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Congratulations, Mr. Bush

Now that the conservative wing of the Supreme Court has clearly demonstrated it cares not a whit for the voting rights of African Americans, it’s virtually certain that George W. Bush will be our forty-third President. How we ever got to this miserable nadir, I can’t say.

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Tigers and Dragons

Last Friday, Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” finally premiered Stateside, after much hand-wringing and excitability among most everyone I know. Though I saw it in Singapore back in August, seeing it a second time on Friday reaffirmed to me that it’s the best film anyone is likely to see all year. Here’s hoping that the American moviegoing public will give their stamp of approval the way Americans best know how.

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Publishing and Procastination

Back in October, I had a brainstorm to create a Web log sort of venue for my ramblings, which I called List(n). Er, well, it wasn’t a brainstorm that lasted all that long, but the idea was to structure a forum that would allow me to post concise, simple ideas at brief intervals, without developing elaborate essays and presentations for them.

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