September 03, 2008
Danger! Live Microphone
Classic stuff.Republican pundits think they're off the air. They're not. Funny how what they say off-air completely contradicts what they say on-air. How come?
August 17, 2008
Finger Dislocation.
Believe it not, this was not my broken finger today. It was my dislocated finger. Stumbled at the end of a movie in a darkened theatre; credits rolling; I start to get up, reach for arm rest, realize too late it's not there, but I've gotten up too fast, nowhere to grab ahold, lose balance, little finger goes between two theatre chairs as I fall back, finger bends like 90 degrees, SNAP, dislocation.
Five hours in the ER, three sessions of various docs pulling my finger apart with ferocious medieval intensity in an attempt to get the bones back together in their proper configuration; three sessions of x-rays; operating room prepped for a surgery; me not to happy about going under for surgery on my pinky; last attempt at re-setting my finger WORKED! No operation needed, went home with a splint and a prescription for painkillers.
All that just to see a movie.
Here's a shot of three doctors pulling with all their strength, trying to enable my dislocated finger bone to pop back into place:
I shared my surprise at the primitive solutions the docs employed for re-setting dislocated joints. One doc's reply: "This is nothing. You should see what they do for dislocated hips!"
August 03, 2008
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Fascinating documentary: Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, freely available in its entirety on Google Video. If you're a Kubrick fan, it is a must-see.
What I particularly loved were the (cinematographer's in-joke?) camera tracking shots straight down the center of aisle after aisle of shelving holding the aforementioned boxes. The dead-on-center camera perspective being a Kubrick trademark throughout his films:
July 28, 2008
Aggressive ... Prius Drivers!??
A week's trip up to the Bay Area revealed a new phenomenon, new to me at least: the aggressive Prius driver.Nothing sillier looking, frankly, than watching Priuses speeding along at 80-90mph, weaving through traffic, cutting people off, and generally acting like _____ drivers (you fill in the blank).
I mean . . . Priuses?
But that is what I saw. A bunch of times. In the Bay Area, on I-5 in the middle of the state, and in the LA area on the drive home.
Drivers Beware: there's a new breed of madman, and he's behind the wheel of a Prius.
July 11, 2008
Eventful for iPhone
Been so busy with this launch, I forgot to post this here.... this is one of the things I've been busy with the past three months....
Find out more here.
June 23, 2008
June 18, 2008
AP Words
This entire blog post consists of words cut from AP news stories and pasted into this post. Literally. Each word in this sentence was lifted directly from an Associated Press published article."I'm not the only one who's a little surprised," said the author of this blog post, "with the Associated Press's attitude towards bloggers. It seems antiquated. They are making themselves look out-of-touch with today's Internet."
Considering the threats from the AP and the fact that this entire post is lifted verbatim, at least one word at a time, from copyrighted AP news stories, this blogger would like to know what the AP is going to do about it.
Thanks to Google News (and of course, the Associated Press) for making this blog post possible.
BarCations
Instead of having BarCamps at company offices in the usual cities, how about some BarCamps at vacation destinations? For instance, I've always wanted to see the Canadian Rockies, Banff area, and Glacier National Park. Why not have a BarCamp at the Lake McDonald Lodge or the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise? Or, have a BarCamp on Maui? Or at Lake Como in Italy? A BarCamp that's basically an agreed-upon destination that all the attendees converge on for a few days during their vacations. Gosh, it might be a business-deductible junket....June 08, 2008
Bill Moyers Speech
Every American citizen should watch and listen to this speech.
June 05, 2008
Waiting for Godin
I wonder if it's intentional or accidental that when you're reading Seth Godin's blog, and you get to the bottom of the page, there is no affordance to read more.Try it. Go to his blog, and scroll to the very bottom of the browser page. No "next", no "previous", no links whatsoever. Considering this is Seth Godin, you'd think he'd want to make it very easy for you to keep reading.
Or maybe the point is, buy his books instead, and the blog is designed as the teaser?
Seth? What's the answer?
May 04, 2008
McGuinn Twittering
There's something surreal about seeing a superstar like Roger McGuinn twittering away.How many other people out there can answer this way to Twitter's question, "what are you doing?":
- "Had the greatest time today with astronauts! Went on the ramp to the shuttle."
- "Trying to put a photo on my Wikipedia page is extremely difficult! I put it up they delete it and say 'You aren't Roger McGuinn himself'"
- "Bruce Springsteen invited me on stage last night"
- "Watching "Forrest Gump" on AMC ... the movie that paid off my house in the 90s :-) Byrds "Turn Turn Turn" in it."
Reading Roger is the antidote to reading so many boring digerati wannabes.
April 21, 2008
Charlie Rose on Charlie Rose
I love Charlie Rose, and this is a great, absurd, clip of Charlie interviewing himself on all things Internet:
