Darius Dunlap

"I love that Martha Stewart's company is going after them. Maybe Apple is working with MSOO in this? We can't know all the details of what's going on, of course. Maybe after it's all played out we'll find out more. It's otherwise a terrible situation." - Darius Dunlap

"Ray Bradbury's "Zen and the Art of Writing" is a favorite of mine. And Stephen King's "On Writing" is great. But for how to think about writing and storytelling, try "Journal of a Novel", by John Steinbeck — written as letters to his friend and editor as he was working on East of Eden." - Darius Dunlap

"Well said, Fraydog!" - Darius Dunlap

"Yes, for sure." - Darius Dunlap

"With iOS 6, my iPhone 3GS doesn't run Siri. My wife's 4S does. Some critics are conflating that with the far more troubling fragmentation of the Android market, where it's often difficult (or even impossible?) to upgrade your device to the current Android OS. I'm betting that my old phone doesn't run Siri because it wouldn't work well on its limited hardware. Same thing for other "missing" features. It comes from a focus on making things work smoothly. And I'm happy to have some iOS 6 goodness, even if I can't have ALL until I upgrade." - Darius Dunlap

"I'm wondering if part of the reason there aren't many thunderbolt peripherals is because vendors knew thunderbolt2 was coming and wanted to wait for it. In any case, I do hope that more options will come available." - Darius Dunlap

"7. Turn the machine on a say a little prayer. (especially since most — idiots — won't use a static-strap or static-free surface, or even ground themselves to the chassis manually.)" - Darius Dunlap

"Amazing Szechuan food. Recommended by my friend Alice, of Red Blossom Tea." - Darius Dunlap

"By the way, I don't mean to imply that I agree with all he says, but rather that it's a thoughtful take on it all. I hope this sort of thing also inspires some reasoned discussion. I'll post more on my thoughts on this soon..." - Darius Dunlap

"I wonder if there's a bit of a "VC-Style" bet going on here, where he thinks that some of these daily papers will make the digital transition successfully and will come out stronger.... Make a bunch of bets, then double-down on the winners. Indeed, very interesting." - Darius Dunlap

"Yeah, I've tried to be a contributor in a small way, and the "rules" there just make it too difficult for normal folks who know something about a topic. Hopefully this is all self-correcting in the long-term, but for now it feels like the "people with nothing but time on their hands" are in charge." - Darius Dunlap

"All novelists should be in the "novelists" category. Then more specific sub-sections, in which any one novelist might appear in several, can be defined." - Darius Dunlap

""Design is not just the way it looks..." (To quote a certain famous guy) ;-)" - Darius Dunlap