So.. Not a Gmail killer, though that is the story the media likes so they keep saying it. And bravo to Mark Zuckerberg for his vision of further reducing attention span and dumbing down conversations ( Read more... )

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

An open source set of college lectures and supporting materials. Really interesting. They are not playing around, they are spending some serious coin on this.

I have not said anything about the Rally here. Partially because I was still digesting it, and probably mostly because the election happened by the time I started to wake back up after the exhaustion of a 10 hour drive to DC, one night of very little sleep, incredible amounts of walking and standing, and a 10 hour drive back. And after the election ( Read more... )

Guest on local MI politics show is a pollster named "Bernie Porn". Wow. He should have run for office. I could really support a campaign based on "Vote for Porn!".

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Please vote! I had to get up at O'Dark hundred, scrape ice of the 23 degree car, and drive the wrong way from work. But I have to say, it was moving, even this year, to hear the official throw open the door of the polling place and shout into the darkness, "Hear Ye, Hear Ye, The polls are now open!!"

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again. Becase the tilt of the earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution, left it's seeds while I was sleeping.

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says the oddest things:

"These are women, and they may be conservative women, but they are women nonetheless."

--Chris Mathews (on Rachel Maddow show 9/14)

It was so goofy and wrong on so many levels that it made me laugh out loud.

If I look back and talk about any regret in my life, my regret is that I didn't have an education, because with education comes choice. With choice comes ownership.

-- Andre Agassi (from Tavis Smiley, airdate September 8, 2010)

The whole interview was pretty good, follow link if interested.

I just love that: With education comes choice. With ( Read more... )

Jeep wouldn't start yesterday. Towed it. Problem was wiring harness. There is a squirrel out there that owes me $400.

First ride to work of the season! Sunny and very cold, about 29 degrees. But it will be beautiful later, around 60 ( Read more... )