View from my Dad’s House.
I was never much of a sunset person. But every time we go to my dad’s you can’t help but sit and watch the sunsets… and take a thousand pictures of it.
(from my recent Flickr upload)
In preparation for MobileMe, I’m trying to get all my contacts in order. I’ve been using my local address book to store all my contacts like an idiot. Not only do I have hundreds of connections that become difficult to manage. But my information goes out of date with time, which is the beauty of online services like LinkedIn.
So I’ve begun the tedious process of getting all contacts moved over to LinkedIn and Plaxo. Chances are if we know each other, expect an auto-generated spam-bait connection message soon.
I wish that I only had to use one service, but LinkedIn seems to be place to go for most connections, better for capturing people you know, but not necessary your primary day-to-day contacts. And Plaxo, while a far better service with better tools to keep my contacts in sync, shows my activity stream to the folks that want to follow each other and have more than a casual connection.
CD Baby Loves Me!
The email from CD Baby celebrating my recent purchase:
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, June 26th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as “Customer of the Year.” We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Awesome!
A perfect reason why Obama should be our next President
On Tuesday the conservative evangelical leader Dr. James Dobson attacked Barack Obama for his ‘Call to Renewal’ speech he gave two years ago about religion and politics.
The the speech is truly inspiring and shows that the Democratic candidate from Illinois truly understands that the highest office is about representing all the people, not just the most vocal zealots:
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason.
Just by prompting the attack Dobson proves Obama’s two year old point through wild interpretation of past statements and the Bible itself. Dobson tries to pick and choose the parts of the Bible he thinks Obama is offending… poorly.
In my mind Obama already won the fight two years ago. From the same address:
And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson’s, or Al Sharpton’s? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let’s read our bibles. Folks haven’t been reading their bibles.
A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution
For the past few months I’ve been thinking a lot about creative destruction, environmental consequence and innovation. I keep asking myself these two words, “what’s next?”
Umair Haque’s Manifesto comes a perfect time.
Today’s investors, boardrooms and entrepreneurs are looking for value in all the wrong places.
I believe we are at a crossroads. You can almost feel that the next evolution, the next wave of innovation is about to happen. But what the hell is it?
Vertigo Theme for Tumblr
An excellent theme and tribute to the work of Saul Bass by Matthew Buchanan.
Summer 2008 TV Watchlist
While the TV season might have been cut short by strikes, it still introduced some amazing shows. And no time is better time to watch TV on DVD than the summer.
Here are some of my favorite shows that debuted in the 2007-2008 TV season.
- Mad Men
- John Adams
- Californication
- Flight of the Conchords
- In Treatment
- Dexter
- Dirty Sexy Money
- Pushing Daisies
- Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Eli Stone
- Cyndi: Is it on a weekday?
- Me: No! It's on Thursday!
