iPhone therefore iAm?
Ok, I’m not ashamed of it. I love my iPhone. And this isn’t a casual thing. It’s a Barry White kinda love. So now, being a software guy, I’m compelled to start writing things to use on it. This is where the honeymoon seems to be ending.
Apple doesn’t really want me to be able to write things that run on the iPhone. Not directly, anyway. The iPhone does a great job of displaying web pages through the Safari browser, but this isn’t the same as being able to write applications that run directly on the phone’s underlying operating system. To do really cool things (like add things to the address book, integrate with the on-board Google map, etc.) you need an API. But according to the Apple 2.0 guys, there’s hope. I’ll keep my fingers crossed (as I sleep with my iPhone gently cradled in my hands).
Soon I Will Be Invincible
No, my megalomania is still safely in check (mostly). I just finished reading the Austin Grossman novel
If you spend two hours getting thrown around and choked before breakfast…
the rest of the day really is cake. Getting ready for my test means I’m making as many black belt classes as I can, and it just so happens that today’s class started at 7:00 AM. I did not want to get out of bed at 6:00 AM and drive downtown to get on the mat. But some creative self-delusion works wonders in these cases. The trick is not to think too much about the overall plan. Just roll out of bed, brush your teeth, throw on some clothes and start driving. Put on the gi, roll around a little. Then when the throwing and choking starts, you don’t really have much choice.
Red over red — the pilot is dead.
For some reason that little rhyme came to me the other day. I learned it when I was getting my bare boat charter certificate in Seattle, 15 years ago or so. What it means is that the boat that’s showing two red lights in a vertical line isn’t being steered by anybody, so don’t expect it to get out of your way.
I’ve been feeling a little like that lately, like I’m more-or-less drifting with the current. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing, but for someone who’s been used to having a long-term plan at all times it’s a little disconcerting. Maybe it’s just that I’ve never really had the certainty that I thought I did, but before I wasn’t aware of it. Most people are comfortable living a reactive life and going with the flow, but I’m not. Not at all.
Training day.
I went to see 3:10 To Yuma on Tuesday. Russell Crow, Christian Bale, and about 10,000 rounds fired. What’s not to like?
Besides being a great action film, watching Russell Crow play this very bad man was instructive. Absolutely nothing bothered him, nothing surprised him, and you got the feeling that even when he had a pair of handcuffs and four guns trained on him he had the upper hand. When people are talking about presence, that’s what they mean.
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