May 2000

looking for one thing and found something else… Buddha’s dying words “Do your best.” Come to the edge. No, we will fall. Come to the edge. No, we will fall. They came to the edge. He pushed them, and they flew. – Appollinaire

Sarah and I stayed up late last night discussing the potential spiritual effects of various church services. We stumbled on an interesting idea where different religions have differing ideas of what their commonalities are. Some all believe the same thing, some all practice the same way, where those two don’t necessarily go together. Some, like…

There’s all these exciting jobs from premiere companies on the CHI-JOBS list, then the SAS Institute posts this: POSITION TITLE User Interface Analyst (any level) POSITION NUMBER 8044ALB POSTING DATE 2000-04-25 CLOSING DATE Open until filled DIVISION Data Visualization Research and Development DEPARTMENT Data Visualization Usability etc. Yuck, who wants to apply to a company…

Boo bites it. I’m not surprised.

Passed a guy handing out pamphlets in the NYC subway last night. I said no thank you. He asked what I thought of Jesus Christ, and I said (and motioned) “Thumbs Up!” He asked, as I walked on, if Jesus was my personal Lord and Savior. Jeez, it isn’t enough that I try to follow…

I think the story of boo.com’s impending doom is making a fascinating case study. In addition to their crazy ass use of client side technology the business is big and unweildy as well. They’ve only been around for 18 months and have offices in four countries. Aren’t dot coms supposed to capitalize on not needing…

Once again Tog comes up with what should’ve been a blatently obvious solution to everyone, this time for squashing inappropriate ringing cell phones.

A woman at U of Hawaii, doing research on music record labeling, called my undergrad thesis on Music and Censorship “very well-researched and surprisingly current…it still applies today.” Schucks. It’s nice to know a paper I worked my butt off to write eight years ago is still current.

I attended my cousin’s wedding this weekend in North Carolina. They’re so in love and so intense and so good at expressing themselves, it’s wonderful to see them growing the relationship that much in their 20’s.

very cool, Lynnie and Etoile are mother and son bloggers. My family is just getting up on email on (ahem) WebTV. I think it’ll be another 5 years before they start authoring anything beside eBay bids.

“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking which created them.” – Albert Einstein

It’s odd how bad business people are at running meetings. I work with some of the premiere organizations in the world in many industries and you rarely ever see an agenda, goals for what needs to be decided, or even a leader to keep everything organized. It’s just streams of chaos, folks interrupting each other,…

I asked “what’s the most beautiful thing you’ve experienced today?” and etoile responded probably the most beautiful thing today was someone saying hi to me unexpectedly who hasn’t been talking to me in person. instant messenger, sure, but in person…… it’s a strange side effect of the ‘communication revolution’… communication is not just words, voiceless…

Would you take branding advice from a company called DareStep?

I was starting to soften my position on Nike today. With the Lance Armstrong sponsership I really wanted to like Nike again, because Armstrong’s achievements get me all chocked up. I haven’t bought any of Nike’s stuff since they were busted, twice, a few years ago for horrible labor conditions and salaries. But I figured…