I, Wallace
Last week I enjoyed a great story by Rands, who, as a team lead, had a total communication disconnect with one of his team members. While he enjoyed an easy rapport with Harold and Stan, he just wasn’t...
View ArticleSun, Wind, and Tide!
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide . . . I’d put my money on the sun...
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Dinosaurs and Mammals
“Even though bicycle commuting is on the rise all over the country, as cyclists we remain vulnerable. We’re like mammals in the waning days of the dinosaurs: far more adaptable and with much better...
View ArticleIn my country . . .
Some article in The Atlantic about how President Obama has decided to stop being the reasonable guy who makes every last concession imaginable and then some and as of last night is now playing Chicken...
View ArticleOh, Shoot . . .
From frumforum.com via jsonp.cc: House Republicans could have kept the debt ceiling issue wholly separate from the budget cut issue. Instead, Republicans put the gun on the table. They raised the...
View ArticleSteve Jobs
Personally, I am not fond of Apple products, but I can not help but admire Steve Jobs. I am enjoying a compendium of Steve Jobs quotes from the Wall Street Journal. This one hits close to home: “The...
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Hack
Enjoying Dmitri Samarov‘s new novel about driving a taxi in Chicago, I looked up at my cafe table in Mountain View, CA and noted that mine was the only analog screen. Technologist that I am, I’m just...
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My First Book Credit
Cracking open a copy of “Human Transit” which I helped to illustrate!
View ArticleThe More Things Change . . .
Above all science was becoming religion; psychology was reducing metaphysics to experiment and a sociology of human action was planned. Fighting the vast concept of evolution, religion went into its...
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We are the supermen . . .
“We are the supermen who sit idly by and laugh and look at civilization . . .” I am reading a book by W.E.B. Du Bois, based on this quote which was captured in a photo of New York graffiti. Even as...
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Know When to Hold’m
“If I were committed only to being right, I would go out and talk anyway, but because I’m committed to making a difference, I wait until I’m ready.” –Julia Butterfly Hill
View ArticleProp 8 Guy Decides to Stop Hating
A Prop 8 champion is having a change of heart: Marriage says to a child: The man and the woman whose sexual union made you will also be there to love and raise you. In this sense, marriage is a gift...
View ArticlePolitical Compromise
A paragraph I had highlighted as I finished my reading of Du Bois’ “Dusk of Dawn”: The Dyer Anti-lynching Bill went through the House of Representatives and on to the floor of the Senate. There in 1924...
View ArticleCollocation vs Colocation
This drives me insane. Part of the challenge is that most software dictionaries are unaware of the word “colocation” and are happy to offer “collocation” as an alternative, but that is wrong wrong...
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Slaughterhouses and Battlefields
Two quotes passed along on September 11, from my meat-eating Grandmother: A USDA inspector reviews the carcasses of slaughtered pigs for our safety. Credit: Wikmedia Commons “As long as there are...
View ArticleWhat’s the Deal With One on Ones?
Early in my career, I didn’t interact much with management. For the past decade, the companies I have worked at had regular one-on-one meetings with my immediate manager. At the end of my tenure at...
View ArticleAround the Bend
Life has been busy lately. I have failed at carving out time for the little things like keeping up with email and reading and writing. One theme that is just below the surface these days, is an...
View ArticleTommyisms
Last night: Dad: “Was the pizza good, Tommy?” Tommy: “No! It was super duper good!” This morning: Tommy: “Daddy, go away with your cool dog shirt.”
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. . . Convincing?
A “challenge” posted to Facebook: A moment of thought and I realized the challenge was easy, and heartening. This speech has been given before: “Hillary Clinton understands that we must fix an economy...
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