In the mid-90’s I had the pleasure of working for a genuine serial entrepreneur (defined as someone capable of having 10 number 1 priorities). He was charming, he was brilliant, and as the company got larger he was a disaster. Eventually the lack of focus caught up with us and…
Yesterday, in a discussion about on-line opposition to certain ideas, a lawyer employed this term and I was quietly charmed. I’ve been engaging in wanton and irresponsible bloggery since 2007. I combines several powerful base words into one all inclusive and deliciously snide put down: Blogging (obviously) Buggery Doggerel Logorrhea…
In 1972, deep in the generational culture wars, Will the Circle Be Unbroken was released as a 3 LP set. A that time I was a budding 14 year old banjo player. It was refreshing to hear the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fusing their hippie sensibility with the mastery of…
My guess is that if you are in the office today you aren’t all that busy. So take 7 minutes and watch this great little video, particularly if you are skeptic about video games and learning. Video – Tangential Learning His central point, that a well designed game experience tees…
As the delegation returned to our hotel in smoggy dusk a lime green rickshaw was playing chicken with a big tan BMW 7 sedan. Some unseen signal passed between the cyclist and driver and the tangle resolved itself smoothly; the perfect metaphor for my adventures in China last week. The…
This made my day! The kids are all right.
Last week at EdNet Charlene Blohm was whinging about how I hadn’t posted some tunes in a while. Here are 25 of my favorites from this past few months. iTunes no longer allows you to embed mixes outside of their service – so you will need to click through to…
What do you do with 112 degrees of dry Texas heat on a Sunday afternoon? We sheltered in the Alamo Drafthouse for the Harry Potter matinee and brunch. Our 17 year old son Peter was sitting between Leslie and I, his broad shoulders connecting us as a family. The cartoons…
Lovely, enjoy. Background: “Philips ran a contest called Parallel Lines in which they asked people to create a three-minute short film using only six lines of dialogue: :”What is that?”, “It’s a unicorn”, “Never seen one up close before”, “Beautiful”, “Get away, get away”, and “I’m sorry”. After more than…
Methinks, perchance, I hast a weeks end theme I had to listen 3 times to really hear the Shakespeare because the impressions are so good and come so fast. Iambic awesomeness. HT ABL at Balloon-Juice.