Unquiet Desperation

Testing from Jott. This is a test ____ cell phone directly to my blog. I read about this on Lifehacker. Interesting to see if it works. I am not going to ____. I just want to see how it comes through. This is a test. Go back to [...]

photo credit: paulgormanThere may be no place quieter than a con on a Saturday morning.

Still, I’m up. And this is the Penguicon Update: Day 1.

The con itself is good size…it’s pretty much taken over the Troy Hilton, which is not a small hotel. Like all Sci-Fi/Tech conventions, the glasses to non-glasses ratio is pretty [...]

I totally blame Matt Selznick and P.G. Holyfield for this:

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photo credit: dewonn43

Yesterday, Jason Calacanis1, posted about how to save money running a startup. Techcrunch took one part of Jason’s post and it and blew it way out of proportion, and Jason wrote a second post to continue the conversation. I weighed in on Jason’s blog about this, but I wanted to elaborate a [...]

Pics of my front and back yard during this morning’s snowstorm:

Note the snowdrift on TOP of the hedges in the second pic. Fun fun.

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Once you start playing in the world of data, it’s hard to turn off the part of your brain that examines how various independent streams of data can be mixed, matched, sliced and diced to glean meaning. The world is rife with data to be mined, and our magnificent brains handle it with such [...]

Dear George,

Ever since I discovered you on Skepticality, I’ve been impressed with your music. I bought the four albums that were available. I’ve introduced many of my friends to your music, and they, too, have been impressed.

I’ve been listening to the Geologic Podcast for a long time, and I’ve enjoyed both your original work [...]

Found this thanks to the Open Media Review blog:

This video highlights the immense shift in norms, that the average person, at least in the currently upcoming generation, doesn’t see any moral dilemma with sharing. I’m guessing this has something to do with the success of creators who get that and don’t get hung up [...]

Check out this interview with Bug Labs at CES. This has to be the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a long time.

Imagine…once they have an audio module, you could have a programmable, mobile podcasting plaform. Take that to the next step with video and GPS, and you can be posting geocoded data. Add [...]

My wife and I were reviewing our Poop Management Plan this morning while staring out at the backyard.

We realize now that, by adopting a new dog in the winter, we have somewhat screwed ourselves. The original plan was to train her to go in a particular part of the yard, so that the Shit Storage Zone would be localized, and so that we could enjoy in the backyard without watching for landmines.