I had a productive meeting today at UC Irvine. Forward looking and exciting. Mainly about a book project, but also other things. Tonight, I have a “free” evening, which I chose to partly spend in the hotel bar with a latop. It works as well as a café in terms of getting writing and work [...]

I have now arrived in Irvine and will have meetings here tomorrow at UCHRI at UC Irvine. This morning I did some work on the expansion of the lab and I am trying to catch on email and other things.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you precisely try to judge the size [...]

I am currently in Santa Cruz, where have I had a meeting today. Tomorrow I will drive to Southern California – Irvine. And yesterday I was in Palo Alto. I saw a girl with a cardboard sign saying “Can you spare some change?” and some more that I could not read – on Stanford campus. [...]

I am watching this great program on independent bookstores (on KQED, Paperback Dreams, prudcer Alex Beckstead) – some of them in Berkeley – and others I have visited. Cody’s, Kepler’s, Powell’s. Intreviews with the key people, reactions to chain stores and internet bookshops.  I miss Cody’s in particular. Not because it is the great bookstore [...]

One of the things I like about the US – at least the US I meet – is the strength of individuals and their drive and conviction. I just talked to the waitress at the bar I am “using” for writing (combined with eating/drinking) and it turns out that she is hoping to do an [...]

Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (José van Dijck)
The Virtual Life of Film (D..N. Rodowick)
Science Studies: An advanced introduction (David J. Hess)

I have had a fairly productive today. 3 hours solid writing in the morning and a few hours this afternoon. I am currently in a hotel bar – or rather a sports bar – trying to get a bit of work done. Earlier there were quite a few laptop people here, but fewer now. The [...]

I have just spent two Friday evening hours working on my article. One nice thing about this choice of day and time is that cafés in Berkeley are less crowded than normally.
Getting here from the airport was interesting. For some very strange reason the van – destined from the East Bay and Berkeley – [...]

I arrived in Toronto early Saturday morning. My hotel is also a pub (or rather several pubs – although not in the same buidling), which caused the taxi driver (who did not know about the hotel part) to wonder about me arriving from an international flight at 1:30 am and immediately going to a bar. [...]