January 2009
17 posts
Just proving my point
Bill Palmer, a noted Mac writer and obvious Leftie, tweeted:
Rush Limbaugh: “I want Obama to fail.”
me: “I want Rush Limbaugh to get hit by a bus and dragged for several hundred yards”
Bill, this is the sort of rhetoric that makes people think that you (and, by extension, those who agree with you) have lost your minds. You belong to the party that champions freedom...
I am not grieving
I’m writing once again in response to a post by Dave Caolo, an online buddy of mine with whom I tussle now and again over politics. On his weblog, Dave recently penned a nice piece comparing the Conservative response to President Obama’s election and the traditional Five Stages of Grief. If you haven’t yet, please go read it… this post is a response to it. I suppose that...
The inagurual address examined
Like most folks, I listened to President Obama (@BarackObama, @ObamaInaugural, @ObamaNews) deliver his Inagural Address (transcript) live yesterday. I was administering a final exam at the time but I was able to keep the Hulu stream open quietly in the back of the room while my students worked. Sometime during the middle of his speech, I tweeted:
Boy oh boy, that man can talk. :)
I have...
Now: what - specifically! - were we all hoping...
Seth Godin, as usual, is right.
The magical thing about selling hope is that it makes everything else work better, every day get better, every project work better, every relationship feel better. If you can actually deliver on the hope you sell, there will be a line out the door.
The problem with hope is that its like smoke… you can’t pin it down or define it. President Obama...
How to choose a chart →
Another one just for Larry (and my Computer Applications students).
“Those who support school vouchers do so to vote for the empowerment of poor...”
– Dennis Prager, “Think a Second Time”
Thoughts on my voting record
This isn’t meant to be a blog all about my disagreements with Dave, but a recent Tweet of his got me thinking. We were discussing tomorrow’s inauguration of President-Elect Obama via Twitter, and he said:
Well, I’ll tell you that I voted for Bush in ‘01. Since then, he earned my disappointment and resentment.
So I began to wonder about my own record. I was born in 1972...
More on Reese's
I tweeted yesterday that Reese’s PB Cups are the best candy but there is just too much unwrapping involved. So, I recently tried one of the whipped bars that Reese’s makes.
No contest. The cups are orders of magnitude better. I just wish you could buy them sans-paper!
Photos of the Earth from space →
A very cool collection at The Big Picture.
Wil responds, sort of
So, shortly after I wrote about Wil’s tweet regarding 24, he responded, after a fashion. Wil wrote:
Look, all you people who think torture is just great and is *ever* justified? You sicken me. Go watch 24 and leave me alone.
Now, I know that he’s not talking to me, since my response doesn’t say that torture is “just great.” But, then again, he might be, since I do...
A question for Wil about torture
A while back, someone named Paul F. Tompkins tweeted:
Jack Bauer’s most important lesson is that torture always works. ALWAYS. It is 100% effective.
That’s an interesting point, I suppose. I don’t know how Paul means it; is it supposed to be snide, meaning that the premise is ludicrous, or is it supposed to be a simple observation? Is he trying to point out that the show is...
“Fortunately, Final Cut Express is only $169 on Amazon. It can import iMovie...”
– Screenwriter John August, writing his initial reaction to iMovie ‘09.
“As for what might appear in iPhone OS 3.0, here’s my wish list. First, a new...”
– Gruber says what I feel better than I can. I just restored my iPhone and had to re-organize my apps and it was, precisely, a pain in the ass.
“We are more than our investments. We are more than the year-to-year or...”
– Ben Stein, in the NY Times.
Stanford's iPhone programming class →
Very cool; their materials are all available online.