Most cats get one house. Hobbes got the world — a shelter outside Melbourne, an ocean crossing, two continents, eight crossings of America, and people on both sides of the planet who knew him by name. He died this week, while I was still days from home. This is his tribute: the fullest life I’ve ever watched a cat live, and the hardest essay I’ve ever had to write.
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Eight crossings of the country and I still get something wrong every time. Here’s the whole manual anyway: the cooler that becomes a refrigerator, the sandwich worth stopping for, the emergency gear that isn’t for you, what it actually costs, and how to do it without hotels at all. Written by a man who has personally field-tested every error in it. Part three of Showing Up.
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The lights came up at SIGGRAPH’s biggest screening, and the couple who just won an award stood at the front of the theater while a thousand people left through the back. I walked up. Most people didn’t. A dispatch about networking — and why nothing that actually worked this week looked anything like it. Part two, from inside SIGGRAPH 2026.
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The convention center is built, lit, and empty. Tomorrow, SIGGRAPH — the biggest computer graphics conference in the world — fills it with thousands of people. I’m here a day early with a camera, boxes of the conference’s own history I drove from Ohio, and a badge that didn’t exist four months ago. All of it started with one message. The first dispatch in a new series: Showing Up.
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