I really couldn't say anything better about the 4th of July than I did a few years back. Read it again, please. Did I mention yet how annoyed I am that no candidate is really serious about ending the illegal wiretap programs. It was ok to throw Mr. Wright under the bus, but why the FISA compromise?
Read the lame article in the NY Times for yourself. I work at an email driven company. I get the idea that we spend too much time in email worrying about things that don't matter. I have been known to set-up the out-of-office notice when I want to concentrate on more than one occasion. I just think it's a dumb article.
Matthew's biggest walleye ever. Where was I? I was listening to some memorable speeches at a work function in Vegas.
Recently I drove from Sunnyvale to Minnesota. I was hoping to get a hitchhiker to come with me. I tried Craigslist but that person decided riding the rails would be easier, faster and safer than riding with me. I picked this guy up near the border of Montana and N. Dakota and dropped him off in Fargo. It was nice to have someone to chat with. He explained to me how grain elevators are built. I tried to explain computers and the web and probably failed.
Great article in the Atlantic talking about how google and the web in general are making us stupid. I think that is what the article is about; I skimmed it so I can't be sure.
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Looks like Obama is doing great with the kids who like stickers and hang out near bus stops. Googling for McCain stickers left me suitably underwhelmed. From a design point of view the Shepard Fairey sticker is pretty hard to beat.
I ran into this in the latest print copy of wired. I haven't seen it online yet, so I had to take a picture. I was shocked that they reported speeds of 170 MPH on the road between Mumbai and Pune India. The road is quite nice compared to other roads in India, but very windy. steep and mountainous. If that weren't enough by itself you sometimes overtake huge Tata trucks 2 & 3 abreast which meander around the road without regard for the lane markings going at roughly 20-40 KPH. Now my driver got our car up past 100 KPH at times, but I cannot imagine going 170 MPH on this road -- not without an ejection seat and a parachute.
There are some moments in my life where I knew something has changed permanently.
Last night I got an email about a young woman who died tragically. When you read something like that it either far away or far too close. In this case it was in the middle. I didn't really know Julie in real life, but I read her blog. She was a friend of a friend. Hearing of her death, clicking on her rss feed and clicking the link to her last post was a moment I won't soon forget. Her blogspot "Location" left as it always was ... "amidst the water & the trees, minnesota". My heart goes out to those who lost a dear one.
Family friend, Lisa Slotsve, took family portraits in our neighborhood a few weeks ago. See if you can spot us in the her latest blog entry. Did I forget to smile again?
