- RT @capricecrane: Every time I almost think humanity will be okay, I see someone struggle with the self-checkout for 20 minutes. #
- RT @serafinowicz: I have two eyebrows, but they're both over the same eye ":( #
Twitter: 2010-10-29
James MacArthur, 1937-2010
Twitter: 2010-10-28
- Like every great point guard, I know how to penetrate and make things happen. #
Boffo
Twitter: 2010-10-27
- RT @diablocody: I love people that go to gossip sites and type "WHO CARES?" in the comments. You do, you little cutie! #
- Democrats' problem is they haven't been smug and dismissive enough. When's the Jon Stewart rally? #
Twitter: 2010-10-26
- RT @SarahKSilverman: I’m starting a campaign called Naps for Jesus. So basically every time I take a nap, it’ll be for Jesus. #napsforjesus #
- RT @eddiepepitone: Make no mistakes I tell very small children! Be perfect! Life is like a bank heist! Then I walk away crying. #
- RT @eddiepepitone: I always strike out at the weakest person in my prayer circle but I make up for it by bringing delicious baked goods. #
- RT @MrsRupertPupkin: A good way to spend the day is to repeatedly track the shipping status on recent Amazon or Zappos orders. #
- RT @kausmickey: Chevy: You already bought it! #betterchevyslogans #
Last Chance
In America, one party is openly committed to driving the nation off the cliff, and the other party is full of guys content to go along for the ride as long as we shift down to third gear. That’s no longer enough of a choice. If your candidate isn’t committed to fewer government agencies with fewer employees on lower rates of pay, he’s part of the problem. This is the last chance for the GOP to restore its credentials. If it blows it, all bets are off for 2012.
Completely Missing the Cause and Effect
It’s a sign of how poorly liberals market themselves and their ideas that the word “liberal” is still in disrepute despite the election of the most genuinely liberal president that the political culture of this country will probably allow.
“Despite”?
Customer Engagement
You want to actively elicit feedback from end users using short development cycles or by using prototypes and models during analysis. A good feedback cycle has the appearance of causing problems. It will cause emergent and latent requirements to surface. That means rework: the value of prototypes is that they push this rework back into analysis, where it has more value. And most important, good end user engagement changes end user expectations. It is only by participating in a feedback loop that’s grounded in reality that customers get the opportunity they need to reflect on what they’re asking for. If your customer changes their expectations in the process, you’ve both learned something. Embracing change doesn’t just mean reacting to it: it means providing the catalysts that accelerate it.
Perspective
If you do stuff online, people are tracking it and putting it into a database and trying to sell you stuff based on that. There’s not much you can do about it except not be online. And it’s not all that bad, really, to get ads for diapers when you’re having a baby, or ads for cars when you are looking to buy a car. Life will go on.
“. . . and Managers”
Rumor Has It
Overheard
HER: Did you get me a card for my birthday?
HIM: My god, you are high-maintenance!
Twitter: 2010-10-23
- IMAO: "In a Muslim country, anyone separated from Kevin Bacon by two degrees or less is executed." http://goo.gl/cCGC #
- RT @WhitneyCummings: When did it become normal to start every conversation by talking about about how tired you are? #
- RT @kdn13: I have to remind myself that "it's not a popularity contest" way more than is appropriate for my age. #
The Destined Reign of Troy
Here are provided seats of meditative joy
Where shall rise again the destined reign of Troy
Interview: Maureen (Moe) Tucker of the Velvet Underground
To be honest, I never paid attention to what the hell was going on. My always voting Democrat was the result of that. . . .
I’m stunned that so many people who call themselves liberal yet are completely intolerant. I thought liberals loved everyone: the poor, the immigrant, the gays, the handicapped, the minorities, dogs, cats, all eye colors, all hair colors! Peace, love, bull! Curious they have no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who doesn’t think exactly as they do. You disagree and you’re immediately called a fool, a Nazi, a racist. That’s pretty f’d up!! I would never judge someone based on their political views. Their honesty, integrity, kindness to others, generosity? Yes. Politics? No!
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- Moe Tucker, Velvet Underground Drummer, Stuns Fans With Tea Party Support (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
College Interview
All these years later, my son went to USC this morning, my alma mater, for a college interview, wearing a red shirt and his lucky tie bar.
Around noon, he texted me: “Sitting right next to jurrell casey and nick perry in the student center. No big deal”
Jurrell Casey is one of my favorite football players, not just because his last name is the same as my son’s first name. Every time we watch a game and he makes a good play, I yell “CASEY!”
There are two major universities in Los Angeles but at the other one, UCLA, no one will talk to you. Literally. They won’t talk to you.
It’s a government-run institution. Imagine the DMV operating a college. Or the IRS. Or the Post Office. UCLA is actually worse than any of them.
At those other places, eventually you’ll get to talk to someone. You’ll take a number and wait, and when you do talk to someone, they’ll be glum and uninspired, but at UCLA, they just will not talk to you.
I don’t mind if the boy doesn’t go to USC but I hope he doesn’t go to UCLA.
A Day in the Internet
Created by Online Education
Bad Dad’s College Advice
HIM: You look sad this morning. What’s the matter?
HER: Oh, my son left for college yesterday, and I just really miss him.
HIM: Let me share something with you. When my daughter went off to school, I gave her one very important piece of advice.
HER: Really? What was that?
HIM: Don’t get photographed sucking a dick.
HER: Hmmm. That sounds like great advice for your daughter, but it wouldn’t have any value for my son.
HIM: That’s not what I’ve heard.
Twitter: 2010-10-19
- Editorial: Moral distress and ethical decision making http://bit.ly/9pSStp #nursing #nurses #AACNchat #