I enjoy being wrong because it doesn't happen very often. When Twitter first reared its itty-bitty head I thought it was one of the dumbest ideas ever. Who wants to “tweet”, in an utterly disorganized stream of consciousness way, 140 character messages to total strangers? What could emerge from such inane chatter? Isn't this like … Continue reading Twitter is not Trivial
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My Colon’s Merry Christmas
I have just returned from my second colonoscopy. For all you indestructible young'ins out there a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that basically entails stuffing a camera up your butthole to look for evil-doers. Thankfully you're knocked out during the procedure and when you come to you remember about as much as alien anal probe … Continue reading My Colon’s Merry Christmas
Tipping with Bitcoins
For the last two days my elderly laptop has struggled with the bitcoin-qt client while it downloaded and checked the entire Bitcoin block chain. This is one of the fascinating things about this "currency." Its entire global transaction history is public. It occurred to me that the Bitcoin economy is now large enough to verify basic macro … Continue reading Tipping with Bitcoins
Fifty Years of Nauseating Kennedy Nostalgia
It’s been fifty years since Michelle, a fifth grade childhood friend, interrupted me on the playground of Naples elementary and told me that ”President Kennedy has been shot.” The news did not impress me. I naively rooted for Kennedy in the 1960 election. Yes, I was suckered, but I was in the second grade! I … Continue reading Fifty Years of Nauseating Kennedy Nostalgia
Sorry PBS you already have my Money
PBS is begging for money again. PBS is a US public broadcasting network. Like all public English language broadcasters, (CBC Canada, ABC Australia, BBC UK), PBS is filled with tiresome left wingers that do not see themselves as left wingers. It's still easy to find disingenuous tools in these intuitions that publicly declare they're bias … Continue reading Sorry PBS you already have my Money
Minnie’s Pictures
Minnie E. Raver 1881-1977 While going through my late mother’s pictures I came across a box of my great-grandmother Minnie’s old photographs. When my great-grandmother died in 1977 my grandmother Hazel took her pictures and stuffed them in her Hoarder’s level junk filled basement.1 After Hazel’s death my mother recovered Minnie’s pictures from Hazel’s hoard and … Continue reading Minnie’s Pictures
I write my Congresswoman about Syria
I just emailed this to my Congresswoman, Ann Wagner, 2nd district Missouri. I'm going to make sure I'm on the NSA's naughty malcontent list. Dear Ann, Your summer vacation from Congress is coming to an end. Soon you will be back in Washington dealing with little problems like: runaway deficit financing, relentless FED driven currency debasement, … Continue reading I write my Congresswoman about Syria
Yellowstone and Me
My wife in front of the Roosevelt Gate that marks the northern entrance to Yellowstone. The road to Mammoth Hot Springs and the Lamar valley are open during the winter. Most of the park is snowed under. I have moved so often that I am no longer from anywhere, but if asked, one place, Livingston Montana, … Continue reading Yellowstone and Me
Corporate Social Media Policies
You probably work for a company that has a corporate social media policy (CSMP). I'm betting that your CSMP's preamble starts with words like, "we would never restrict the free speech rights of employees but blah, blah, blah, ... It's what follows the "but" that matters. For example my employer does not want anything I … Continue reading Corporate Social Media Policies
The New SmugMug
Websites compete in a brutal Darwinian struggle for eyeballs and clicks: adapt or die is an understatement. Every few years users get "upgraded" whether they want it or not. Generally things move in a better direction. Even twenty-something web programmers aren't completely stupid but setbacks and complete disasters are not uncommon. My new SmugMug layout - click … Continue reading The New SmugMug
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 