I don’t want to hear a love song. I got on this airplane just to fly.
Is there any wonder I love the Web? Muy muchas gracias, Tim Berners-Lee.
January 17, 2009
January 11, 2009
What some people do for fun
Tonight was a meet-up at a pub in the south bay for beer and dinner with friends from the old job. Well-attended. Chance to catch up and see what people are up to.
Here’s what one of the old friends is doing for fun these days.
Tom King’s solo run in a supercharged Acura NSX at 150 mph average speed in the 2008 Nevada Open Road Challenge:
December 29, 2008
December 24, 2008
Has it been that long?
I have a framed John Byrne Cooke photograph of Mimi Fariña on the wall to the right of the front door. She’s standing at the top of the hill, at Union and Montgomery, goofing off with Debbie Green. I like the picture because it shows the waterfront behind them as it was back when the picture was taken, in 1966, and because it shows Mimi Fariña full of life.
It took me years after I first stumbled on the image on the Web to decide that his price was worth it and to contact Cooke and arrange to swop him $$$ for a print.
I’m still glad I did.
Depending on my mood, the photograph makes me smile, or tear up.
Same with DIAMONDS AND RUST.
The YouTube video is from 1975. Has it really been that long?
I guess it has.
yes I loved you dearly
and if you’re offering me diamonds and rust
I’ve already paid
December 20, 2008
Fireworks and explosions
Of the jobs I wish I’d had, fireworks designer/handler is up near the top of the list. Also near the top is implosion designer/handler.
Implosion designers don’t just blow things up, they calculate things so precisely that the building/stadium/whatever blows up and falls in on itself without damaging nearby structures.
Beautiful example of a controlled implosion. RCA Stadium. Indianapolis, IN. This morning. Eight hundred holes drilled and kaboom! powder added and then at the specific moment …
December 4, 2008
November 5, 2008
There’s never been anything false about hope.
I watched this whenever I felt like it was all an impossible quest.
Thank you, will.i.am.
October 30, 2008
YouTube – Charles Meets Barack
YouTube – Charles Meets Barack
“Everybody my age, they’re dying off. … these young people … they are really a united people [the volunteers] and that’s what this country needs right now.”
October 29, 2008
Excerpts of Seven Year-Old Obama Interview Cause Stir
City Room™ – Politics – Excerpts of Seven Year-Old Obama Interview Cause Stir
In 2001, Chicago Public Radio interviewed then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama about civil rights. Over the weekend, someone posted excerpts of the interview, edited to misrepresent Obama’s statements. The item is now catching national attention.
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The clips are taken from an interview that aired in January of 2001. Then State Senator Obama is one of three legal scholars interviewed for a show about civil rights. Over the weekend, someone pulled excerpts of the show and posted them to You Tube—and today, the posting caught fire on political blogs, the Drudge Report, and Fox News.
The 4 minute spliced collection of clips portrays Obama as advocate a redistribution of wealth through the power of the Supreme Court. That folds in with some allegations by the McCain Palin campaign.
The twist here is that, when heard in the context of the whole show, Obama’s position is distinctly misrepresented by the You Tube posting. Taken in context, Obama is evaluating the historical successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement—and, ironically, he says the Supreme Court was a failure in cases that it took on a role of redistributing resources.