This stuff just tickles me. :o)
“Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped ‘Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.’”
Enjoy.
Another technology to play with… Joy.
I found this Wired Magazine coverage from last year very enlightening.
"Twitter is the app that everyone loves to hate. Odds are you’ve noticed people — probably much younger than you — manically using Twitter, a tool that lets you post brief updates about your everyday thoughts and activities to the Web via browser, cell phone, or IM. The messages are limited to 140 characters, so they lean toward pithy, haiku-like utterances. When I dropped by the main Twitter page, people had posted notes like "Doing lunch and picking up father-in-law from senior center." Or "Checking out Ghost Whisperer" or simply "Thinking I’m old." (Most users are between 18 and 27.)
It might seem like blogging taken to a supremely banal extreme. Productivity guru Tim Ferriss calls Twitter "pointless email on steroids." One Silicon Valley businessman I met complained that his staff had become Twitter-obsessed. "You can’t say anything in such a short message," he said, baffled. "So why do it at all?"
They’re precisely right: Individually, most Twitter messages are stupefyingly trivial. But the true value of Twitter — and the similarly mundane Dodgeball, a tool for reporting your real-time location to friends — is cumulative. The power is in the surprising effects that come from receiving thousands of pings from your posse. And this, as it turns out, suggests where the Web is heading."
So if I Twitter, will I seem younger, hipper, cool? ;o)
I have made some jokes about the language challenges of Asians learning English. But y’all know I do it with love. So there are two beautiful Asian folk tales I’d like to share with you in this and an upcoming post.
Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger? There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Asian community.
Open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together back to back. Now open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb tip to tip as shown in the figure below.
Try to separate your thumbs representing the parents and they will open because your parents are not destined to live with you for your whole life. You typically leave them to live on your own sooner or later.
Rejoin your thumbs as before and separate your index fingers representing siblings. They will also open because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and lead their own separate lives.
Now join the Index fingers and separate your little fingers representing your children. They will open too because your children will usually get married and settle down on their own some day.
Finally, join your little fingers and try to separate your ring fingers representing your significant other. You may be surprised to see that you cannot separate your fingers. As told to me, this is because soul mates have to remain together all their lives, through thick and thin!
Okay, I’ll admit this is sappy but fun. Be well.
I subscribe to the Web MD emails for various areas of human health topics such as Men’s Health. And this week’s missive includes coverage of Dr. Robin Smith’s book Lies at the Altar: The Truth About Good Marriages. "Gentle voice notwithstanding, psychologist (and national television personality) Smith pulls no punches and minces no words in her heartfelt caution against the danger in believing "that you don’t need what you do need." Truth is the theme here, and Smith guides listeners in how to recognize it, speak it and make it a part of the marriage." – Publisher Weekly.
So the Web MD coverage lists some the good doctor’s questions in a piece called 25 Questions to Ask before you get Married. (Warning, NSFW.) My first thought was, it would be the rare youngster who knows the answers to all of these questions. Some of them are formulated through years of experience. And what about those people who’s expectations of a mate are so high that there might not be any one person who can meet those standards?
When Suzy and I met we were teenagers. Okay, for those who would ask, she was 15 and I was 17. We were not very experienced in life and certainly not in what we wanted in the future. So we wandered around learning as we went, making some mistakes, but for the most part doing the things we wanted to. Along the way I became a Major in the Army, a Microsoftie, and a hobbyist saxophonist. Suzy became a nurse who specializes in preemie babies, crafts person (creating furniture, wedding dresses, and custom drapes for example) and a hobbyist musician.
We had two kids, traveled the world from Alaska to Germany and beyond. We’ve experienced a chocolate martini, more jazz concerts than you can shake a stick at, and a life of explorations. We’ve performed in theater pit orchestras for shows like ‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘Anything Goes’. We created our own jazz combo, the Dissonance performing for four years now. And we toy with a sax quartet call ‘Professor Gadget’.
And unspoken, as brave as these exploits have been (Have you ever auditioned for a part in semi-pro band, saved a babies’ life, or laid a minefield out in Europe?) the more intimate and private parts of our life match match in intensity and passion.
Would a book telling us how to find and select each other have helped? I don’t think so. We are the sum of our genetics, environment and upbringing. If life isn’t going well for you and this book helps, great. But if you have to be told to pick someone who will respect you, want the same things you want, and take care of you like you are the most important thing in their lives, I’m not sure a book is going to be much help here. If you have selected a mate that is anything less than you deserve and then had to spend a lifetime of ‘making it work’ and possibly deep regret… well, I just can’t relate.
BTW, I’m listening to the soothing vocals by Renee Olstead from her self named CD. It’s a very sultry, nice background music.
The Summer Olympics are here. This hit my desk this morning and it made me proud to be working here. :o)On the eve of 08.08.08 and the excitement around the XXIX Olympiad, Microsoft and NBC Sports have teamed to deliver event coverage on a scale never seen before on the Internet, let alone on TV. NBC and Microsoft will be streaming more than 3,500 hours of Olympics video to millions of online viewers in the United States, including LIVE coverage of every minute of competition from 25 sports. This is the largest media event ever done on the web, an unprecedented moment in the history of the Internet. MSN is providing distribution of NBC Olympics video content — which lives exclusively on the MSN network — to all of our US visitors. Here are all the ways you can experience the 2008 Summer Olympics from Microsoft and NBC:· Click http://www.nbcolympics.com/video to jump right in and experience high-quality, interactive video using Silverlight. This could even be better than being in Beijing! Get amazing, crisp HD video quality on the web that’s always optimized for your connection using Silverlight’s new adaptive streaming capability, watch up to four live streams simultaneously in the same player, and get expert commentary (hot-linked so you can go back right to the exact moment that Michael Phelps touches the wall for gold) all within a rich Silverlight application running within the browser.· Beginning tomorrow and throughout the Games, the MSN homepage will prominently feature a dynamic Olympics module which will enable people to see results (or hide them if you don’t want any spoilers), get the latest news and see exclusive video coverage. Our partnership with NBC and the world-class editorial team in MSN will make MSN the best portal for up-to-the-minute Olympics coverage.
· Get the latest medal counts by sport or by country, or find out about all 10,000 of the athletes competing in the 2008 Summer Games using the Live Search Olympics Instant Answer
· Install the new MSN Toolbar that gives you one click access to the medal tally and many other highlights.
· For us Zune babies starting tomorrow, Zune Marketplace will kick off a series of daily 2008 Olympic Games videos from NBC Sports, giving viewers special on-the-go access to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The footage will include memorable highlights from the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, “best of” compilations, “best match” replays and a post-Games wrap-up feature.For a behind-the-scenes look at what was involved, check out the Olympics channel on onTen and CNET’s take here, along with press coverage of Microsoft’s participation in the Games, including yesterday’s Seattle Times and today’s Seattle P-I.Let me know what you think of the coverage.
Egan’s Ballard Jamhouse is presenting two of Dave’s groups just a few days apart, and I hope you can make it. This intimate venue is a great place to play, and hear, music:
Trio Real – Saturday August 9th
Groove-oriented jazz tunes featuring:
Hear sound samples at http://www.myspace.com/trioreal
Saturday, August 9th, from 11-12 pm, Egan’s Ballard Jamhouse, Ballard, 1707 NW Market Street, $6. 21+ to enter. This new group features talented young bassist Devin and a swirling cauldron of Brad Bohl rhythms, as we perform originals and other material with a raw, experimental and funky sound. We’re adding the big, bad baritone sax to the mix. Full food and drink menu. http://www.ballardjamhouse.com/
Dave Anderson Quartet – Tuesday August 12th
Jazz originals and modern standards featuring:
Reviews available to read at http://www.daveandersonjazz.com/music_press.html
Tuesday, August 12th, from 7-8:30 pm, Egan’s Ballard Jamhouse, Ballard, 1707 NW Market Street, $6, all ages. This dinner hour set brings the quartet back where it started, with special guest Evan Flory-Barnes on bass (found a cool YouTube Video about Evan). Full dinner and drink menu. http://www.ballardjamhouse.com/
Also, I’ll be at the Triple Door with partner-in-crime James Baumgart…
JB/DA Duo – Friday August 8th
Friday, August 8 JB/DA Duo with James Baumgart (guitar), Triple Door Musiquarium, no cover, 5:30-8 pm, Downtown, Seattle.
Hope to see you out!
best,
In the NYT this morning:
“In its drive to go green, the technology industry has so far focused mainly on big targets like corporations and especially computer data centers, the power-hungry computing engine rooms of the Internet economy.
Next come the hundreds of millions of desktop and laptop personal computers in households worldwide.”
It’s amazing how many people don’t realize how much a computer monitor requires. I’m hard pressed to walk away from mine without putting the machine in sleep mode. At work I notice some monitors on when arrive early in the morning, hours before the owner will start using the computer.
“The potential savings in both dollars and pollution is huge, analysts say, when the estimated one billion PCs in use globally are taken into account. The research firm Gartner estimates that 40 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions resulting from information technology and telecommunications are attributable to PCs. Data center computers account for 23 percent, and the rest is attributable to printers and telecommunications equipment.”
Is this an ah ha moment for you?
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