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A thought

April 16, 2004

Dave Winer says today "It's a sick thing to define yourself in terms of the misery you think you're creating." It makes me think about people I know who define themselves by trying to ensure everyone around them conforms to their world views and end up alienating people because they don't even understand how condescending and "I'll prove I'm better than you are," they come across to others. I usually think to myself "how sad your world must be."

Storagetek Looses Vice President

March 8, 2004

StorageTek announced that Jill Kenney vice president of corporate marketing and strategy has left the company. The move follows Kenney's sale of $800,000 in StorageTek stock earlier this month. The sale was four times the size of two sales Kenney made last year. Maybe I'm just suspicious of such things having just completed The Second Coming of Steve Jobs last weekend. It was just last summer when Jill Kenney's department was winning awards.

The best so far

February 1, 2004

Budweiser's donkey who wants to be a clydesdale is the best commercial in the Super Bowl. The Fed Ex alien is a close second but doesn't match the clydesdales.

I could be mistaken but I thought the reason for not airing MoveOn.org's ad during the Super Bowl has to do with it being an issue ad. However Philip Morris just ran an issue ad about kids smoking. CBS what are the issues you're censoring? Dave Winer has a Davenet on the issue called Is CBS Lying

The West Wing

January 8, 2004

Dave Winer comments on last night's West Wing. As he says they change the names of ex-presidents so its tough to say who Lassiter was modeled after. Winer asks if it's Carter or Reagan. Interesting I assumed immediately it was Nixon. GIven the California location for the presidential library and all the extensive travel. I do agree though, it was a great show... as most of the series is.

SSX 3

January 2, 2004

Over the years I've had more than my share of computer games. Most get played for a bit and then retired quickly. Our Playstation 2 is far more of a DVD player than a consistently used game system. However, whenever a new SSX game comes out it deserves attention. SSX 3 came out last fall and we got a copy for Christmas. It's even better than the last versions. The impossible uber tricks are even more impossible and impressive. The best elements of the old Winter Games are incorporated with players earning cash to purchase accessories or new tricks. The mixture of challenges and the opportunity

Runaway Jurry

November 9, 2003

We went and saw Runaway Jury last night. It's a pretty good show. It has some good twists and fits with other Grisham books in having a message of and right winning in the end. It doesn't have the kind of building action and suspense that The Firm did but it's a good show worth putting on the Netflix queue.

Ten-million ways to say no

November 5, 2003

Coloradans said no in an overwhelming way. The campaign to bring increased gambling to the state proves to be one of the most costly ever with the proponents and opponents spending in excess of $10 million in the effort to get their position out. Like the other efforts to increase gaming in recent years voters handed the measure an 80% to 20% defeat.

Seabiscuit

August 10, 2003

We went and saw Seabiscuit last night. I thought it was a pretty good movie, especially for a movie that had received so much criticism. I've not been in a theater in some time where the theater broke out in applause. The movie tried too hard when it came to showing Seabiscuit's representation of the entire age. Too little credit is given to the audience's ability to understand this and it's done in an in-your-face sort of way. The audience in the theater applauded not only at the end of the movie, but also as Seabiscuit won the match race with War Admiral.

Essays

May 11, 2003

Someday I'll get to making these more organized and getting them updated. They remain on the site in the background.

Notes

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