Sunday, October 04, 2009

Aweekstweets Sept 27 to Oct 4 2009

Aweekstweets Sept 27 to Oct 4 2009

  • "80% of Twitterers tweet mostly about themselves" (http://bit.ly/1esLMg): JK--Not social networking. It's I'M-SO-SPECIAL networking.19 minutes ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Let’s not imagine we’re becoming altruistic with all this “social networking” going on. We’re primarily tooting our own horns, letting off steam, indulging in our obsessions, measuring ourselves against others, finding shoulders to cry on, grabbing whatever we can put our virtual hands on, and otherwise just being more completely into ourselves. I don’t find a lot of actual collaboration, charity, and mutual aid being transacted among all these so-called “friends.”
  • Thank you "sesli sohpet" for your comment "eğlencenin sohpetin arkadaşlığın tek adresi" on my latest blog. My reply: "rwejl ajfqkt rjigfjs."about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Ah yes, remember blogs? This was a bot-generated gibberish response to my most recent Forrester blogpost. I turned off the comments feature in James Kobielus’ Blog ages ago. I was tired of bot spam. I was also tired of moronic, superficial, or irrelevant comments by people who obviously hadn’t taken the time to actual read or understand my post.
  • RT @santaferraro "SOA+BPO can produce self-optimizing models for... customer offers, supply, etc" JK--Yes. Auto model scoring/eval/promotionabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2---One of the key solution differentiators in the predictive analytics and data mining market is the ability to a) generate multiple alternative models (with different algorithms, approaches) from a common historical data set, b) promote the “champion” model with the most predictive power to inline production status, c) regularly re-score the champion and all “challenger” models against fresh data, and d) automatically promote a challenger to production when it shows greater predictive power than the former champion. From what I can see, that’s the emphasis of “self-optimizing models.”
  • RT @scottkarp "journalists can find 'clues' on Twitter & provide thoughtful analysis & summary." JK--More than clues: can find entire "lead"about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Hey tech industry professionals, believe it or not, you can stop reading your e-mail and just focus on reading your tweets each day. If you get tweet feeds from the right mix of publications, vendors, analysts, consultants, users, and others, you can stay abreast of the day’s news and commentary through your Twitter client. If you want further depth and context, you simply follow the tinyURLs back to longer articles or blogposts. There is far richer aggregate content every single day on Twitter than we give it credit for. In fact, I’d rather monitor Twitter than the blogosphere, which is not an efficient news-dissemination medium.
  • Service-Oriented Analytics and business process optimization? Yep: reuse models in BPM/LOB apps, & optimize decisions thru real-time scoringabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Predictive models will become just as central to transactional applications in the future as relational databases are today. Predicting a customer’s likely response to alternative offers is key to customer relationship management. Predicting future resource requirements is central to enterprise resource planning. Predicting likely logistical bottlenecks is essential for supply chain optimization. And so on and so forth.
  • Service-Oriented Analytics and technology populism? Yep: enable end users to mashup, publish, share, and reuse analytics collaboratively!about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Companies can only meet the future head-on if they empower everybody with predictive modeling expertise. No, you don’t have to become a statistician or soothsayer. You simply need to be able to create business planning, time series, and what-if scenarios that leverage the best models and visualizations that others publish in spreadsheets, reports, and dashboards. And you need to be able to share out your best models for others to use and extend for their own needs.
  • Service-Oriented Analytics and lean management? Yep: don't build any analytics that you can't reuse to the max!about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Nothing’s worse than buried treasure—millions of spreadsheet models trapped on desktops, unknown and inaccessible to others who might benefit from them to address new business problems. Every business model—expressed as a Excel spreadsheets, logistic regression model, neural network model, whatever—should be searchable, shareable, and available for maximum reuses throughout your company.
  • E-mail client apps are a far more productive fast-spam-deletion tool than browser interfaces. Which is why I'm not going full browser.3:14 PM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Still, to date, nobody has really implemented “bulk mail” folders properly. None of the anti-spam services that I’ve used ranks the mail in that folder by degree of likely spamminess, so I can sift the false-positives with fewer keystrokes or mouse-clicks, and with a single rapid glance.
  • BTW, my Aweekstweets 3 wks ago, per tweet-volley with @jamet123, was kernel of today's Service-Oriented Analytics blog. My thinking builds.2:58 PM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---You have to reuse your own work to the maximum extent possible. I have to do analysis on the run, and lash it all together into a coherent structure at a moment’s notice. Try being an analyst in this industry, and you’ll see what I mean.
  • You start to click one window/object, but another pops up suddenly in its place, and you mistakenly click that. Whatcha call those moments?2:48 PM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---I call it “clickjacking.”
  • RT @SethGrimes @atmanes "Talmud [etc] are pre-electronic hypertext" JK--This is sorta like arguing who was the Bob Dylan of 15th century.1:58 PM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Footnotes. Endnotes. Tables of contents. Sidebars. Indexes. Who invented those? That’s as much “hypertext” as anything in the Talmud. Essentially, they’re all cross-referencing navigation guides pointing to and/or containing material with some direct or tangential relation to the main text.
  • RT @atmanes "TimBL and co. at CERN developed a hypertext system in 1990. " JK--Thanks for listing milestones in Internet ongoing re-invention12:13 PM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Let’s split hairs here. Was the “Internet” invented when ARPANET went live in 1969? When TCP/IP was defined a few years later? When the term “Internet” was coined? When DNS was established? You see what I mean? No one innovation defined this still-evolving creation we call “the Internet.”
  • New Forrester blogpost: "Service-Oriented Analytics: Tapping into the Predictive Smarts of Your Entire Organization" (http://bit.ly/aZlhE)12:12 PM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Read it.
  • Internet keeps re-inventing itself. Newspapers keep on re-inventing themselves. Institutions accrete: don't spring entire from Zeus' head.8:58 AM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Newspapers today are a far cry from the broadsides of the 1700s, the penny press of the 1800s, and the dense gray hard-news periodicals of the pre-WWII period. Most of today’s newspapers are in fact collections of feature stories heavy on analysis, graphical blandishment, and human interest. Everybody got the actual “news” hours before on the Internet, or continuous TV news channels.
  • "Bing Records First Monthly Decline Since Launch" (http://bit.ly/pMHYZ) JK--Bada BING bada boom? Or bada BING bada BUST? You decide!6:57 AM Oct 1st from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Today’s search engine wars feel so yesteryear. Just as yesteryear’s browser wars feel as ancient as the Punic Wars. The new battlefield for “eyeballs” is in social media.
  • TweetDeck has UI of one-armed bandit. Drop quarter/tweet into slot/box. Pull the arm/[enter]. Watch wheels [all friends:mentions:DMs) spin.8:07 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Seriously. Pay attention to the entire experience of using this and similar Twitter clients. It almost feels McLuhanesque: it’s a new visual grammar for consuming streams of real-time intelligence from all over the planet. Just as TV shaped our global consciousness in the 50s and 60s.
  • RT @timoelliott "had to listen to 20 years of [tiresome definition wars re BI]" JK-Not as annoying as metaphysics of "data" v "intelligence"7:59 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---This is all ersatz armchair epistemology. Seriously. I don’t recall any actual, honest-to-God, pedigreed philosophers debating this “data” vs. “information” vs. “intelligence” vs. “insight” jazz. Give it a rest please, BI industry. Nobody justifies an investment in one BI tool over another based on one vendor’s ability to help you deliver any of these higher-order “i-words” any more efficiently. Likewise, I’ve yet to come across a DBA who boasts that their data warehouse packs more “insights” per terabyte or per-dollar spent than the previous one.
  • RT @tkgeorge @timoelliott @merv "debating "BI is not X" semantics = monumental waste of time." JK--Huh? 10-sec tweet-blurt = no time at all!3:15 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Debating these never-ending definitional issues is something we do as small talk, out in the hallway over coffee between sessions with substance. It’s an ice-breaker. Not a waste of time. Just a way to fill otherwise idle time.
  • RT @JeromePineau "Is MSFT doing/saying anything about columnar re: Madison or are they still all about rows?" JK--Re Madison, still all rows3:13 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Another one of these never-ending debates in the BI and data warehousing space: the query performance benefits of column-based data storage/access (i.e., what Sybase, Vertica, ParAccel, SenSage, Infobright, and others offer) vs. row-based (which is what most DBMS/DW vendors implement). Another one of those highly technical issues that one dare not mention in a social setting devoid of DBAs.
  • Synonyms abound for condition of "too much": surfeit, surplus, superfluity, excess, plethora. Really, it's all too much!2:14 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---All of these ones listed are in the working vocabularies of most people with a college education. A healthy command of synonyms gives writing texture and poetry. No—don’t consult Roget’s unless you already know a word, understand its meaning, and simply want a second opinion on some subtle shade of meaning. Nothing’s more obvious than a fool with a thesaurus who plops a slightly-wrong quasi-synonym—the verbal equivalent of a sour note—into their writing.
  • RT @JeromePineau "Isn't IQ columnar & ORCL claiming hybrid now?" JK--I said "most"; Sybase, Vertica, etc are; ORCL just partly in ExadataV21:41 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Questions such as this presuppose that it’s somehow inevitable or especially virtuous for vendors--and by implication, users—to “go columnar.” There’s a lot of this assumption floating around the industry. If columnar were so much slam-dunk superior to row-based storage (which has partitioning, indexes, join strategies, materialized views, and the like to speed its queries), then why didn’t everybody adopt columnar en masse long ago?
  • Still this odd enduring notion that columnar database vendors compete primarily against each other. Duh--most top DW vendors non-columnar!1:25 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Fortunately, the columnar database vendors themselves are not very parochial. Sybase, Vertica, and others duke it out—fairly effectively—with row-based RDBMS vendors on the criteria that matter: fast queries, fast loads, mixed-query workload management, and the like.
  • Is Twitter tracking which human being tweeters are the most hashtag-intensive in their tweets. My fingers stumble that high on keyboard.1:17 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Maybe it’s just me, but I find that too many hashtags interrupt the flow of a tweet, and make it even less readable than it already is. A hashtag-intensive tweet looks like it’s more fit for machine-processing than human consumption.
  • RT @nenshad: "ironic if scoring a pa/dm ranking algorithm by hand." JK--Is fingers on keyboard "by hand"? Standard Forrester Wave scorecard.1:15 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Not ironic at all. “Scoring” means one thing in the predictive analytics and data mining (PA/DM) arena, and something entirely different where vendor/product evaluation is concerned.
  • Local TV meteorologist on global warming this morning: "These are only models." Yep, myriad warring predictive models mining common history1:07 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Scoring a global warming model, in PA/DM terms, involves marshalling a massive and growing body of scientific research data to validate the predictive power of a massive and growing (and contentious) range of scientific hypotheses. “These are only models” means “these are only the current ‘champion’ models favored by whoever in the scientific community has the upper hand at this time, and which may be eclipsed in the future by today’s ‘challenger’ models for various reasons, with economics, government funding, partisan politics, and shifting cultural zeitgeist among those reasons.”
  • Crunching thru vendor data gathered under Forrester PA/DM Wave. Yes, dear vendors--I'm pondering EVERY LAST DETAIL. Will start scoring soon.12:50 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---And yes, dear readers, I print out much of it to read on airplanes. Can’t stand craning my neck to watch in-flight movies. Much rather Zune in and zone out.
  • RT @merv: RT @nenshad: "Please repeat after me: BI ≠ reporting" JK--Please repeat after ME: advanced analytics ≠ BI.12:42 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Please repeat after me: “BS ≠ BI.”
  • Interviewed by Jeff Kelly (http://bit.ly/8i3iw) on DW appl vdr "same-day deploy&value" claims. Yep, I said, it happens: for specific deploys12:40 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---My actual e-mail response: “A fair share of marketing hype, for sure. Yes, of course all of these DW appliances can be “up and running in less than a day.” But the issue is: can they be optimized for all of the customer’s queries and loads, and integrated with all the customer’s BI applications and data sources, in less than a day. To the extent that the customer, or the DW appliance vendor working on-site with the customer, can do that optimization and integration in a matter of hours, yes indeed it is possible to get “deep analytical insights” the same day from data processed through the appliance. This scenario is certainly possible, and I’ve heard many DW appliance users who say they’ve done it. It’s especially possible/feasible for the simpler DW appliance deployments: in other words, those that involve a limited range of queries, reports, ETL jobs, sources) where the DW appliance is already pre-certified to work with the customer’s existing BI and ETL tools. It’s also especially possible/feasible if the DW appliance you’re deploying incorporates the same DBMS (e.g., Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server) as your previous DW environment—which means the migration of data, schemas, indexes, queries, ETL, and metadata is correspondingly simpler than if y you are migrating to a DW appliance that incorporates some DBMS you’ve never used before.”
  • What you realize re tweets, columns, analyst rpts, even books, it's not wordcount. It's the "call" you make. That's the payload, the impact!12:10 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---My shortest, sharpest tweets often have bulletforce impact.
  • I generate tweet fodder as I generated Network World op-eds for 21+ years. Milk the moment. Develop a POV. Bang 'em out. Don't look back.12:04 PM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---If you’re receptive and prepared, your freshest of-the-moment observations are often the truest. Tweet ‘em! Now!
  • Speaking of tweet-tight, that's not always best approach. I prefer "keeper" slides that I study in detail, hold for future reference.11:34 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---I often lose interest in purely eye-candy too-high-level business-value blathering presentations. I want substance.
  • RT @Victor_Sokovin "Exadata V2 cell equivalent in Teradata [AMPS]?" JK--DK. Larger issue: need industry-standard DW performance benchmarks.11:27 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---I’ve sketched out thoughts for those, but haven’t developed them to any degree. Yet. Personal action item for 2010.
  • RT @randydarthur "I am more than a MARCOM router." JK--To the extent one becomes a router, one's credibility suffers. Analysts add value.8:03 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---It’s an ongoing struggle, as an analyst, to not get manipulated into becoming an unwitting tool of vendor marketing apparatus. We all push against that. Vendors love us because we’re in a position to influence customers. Vendors love us, but it’s what the sociologists call a “secondary relationship” kind of love, not a “primary relationship.” A secondary relationship is where we “use” each other.
  • Thanks Twitter follow-me requesters for the personally empowering, search-engine-optimizing, Internet-marketing advice. But all full up!7:15 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Speaking of being used. These sorts of twitterers want to extract cash from us (use their direct-marketing consulting services), so that we can, in turn, extract cash from others (direct-market whatever it is we peddle to others).
  • Noticing that reporters and other analysts fail to grasp Oracle Exadata v2 significance. Comprehensive in-DB analytics primary. OLTP 2nd-ary7:09 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---The Oracle’s marketing the latter angle. So it’s not just the reporters/analysts who are misrepresenting the significance of this release.
  • Dear Twitterers & Facebookers: Please don't send "EVERYBODY SHOULD READ THIS ARTICLE!" e-security blasts. Neverending alertstreams grow old!7:03 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---After a few such blasts from on individual or entity on a social network, I’m inclined to unfollow them. Cry wolf!
  • Dear Twitterers at Industry Events: Don't tweet the exact same promotional boilerplate that the sponsoring vendor handed you.6:59 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Commercial vendor-driven friend-spam from otherwise trusted sources tends to strain relationships. Unless of course you’re plugging a Forrester conference, then it’s cool!
  • RT @CurtMonash "Workload mgmt is a necessary but not sufficient condition for OLTP/DW integration." JK--Yeah, of course. Other conditions?6:54 AM Sep 30th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Example of Curt being curt.
  • Fear uncertainty & doubt are our fate. Change is big FUD generator, but so is stagnation. Arbitrariness of it all is what we can't abide.10:00 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---One friend loved this one. Thanks. I labored over it a bit more than I do most tweets.
  • RT @marcusborba: "integrating OLTP & DW w/ Exadata 2) @CurtMonash http://bit.ly/28tWI0" JK--Oracle workload mgt tools are key ingredient.9:40 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---The larger picture of Oracle Exadata v2 is that it provides an intelligent storage layer that enables any application logic—OLTP, OLAP, predictive analytics, data cleansing, etc.—to be executed, scaled, and accelerated through massive parallelism. This intelligent storage layer virtualizes across disk- and cache-based persistence, leveraging hybrid columnar- and row-based persistence. Oracle workload management, resource governance, and policy tools enable all of these applications to coexist in a distributed Exadata fabric with load isolation, high availability, and guaranteed SLAs.
  • NYC notorious 1800s slum "5 Points"' only remaining "point" is corner of Worth & Baxter: SW corner of Columbus Park: Scorsese "Gangs of NY"9:35 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
  • "Nobel vs. Ig Nobel" (http://bit.ly/N1dQ5): JK--Ig Nobel awards: like late Sen. Proxmire's Golden Fleece prizes, minus the federal funding9:27 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
  • "Talend Acquires Master Data Management Firm" (http://bit.ly/f9pcg): JK--OK, but Talend can't make serious go in MDM without consulting arm.9:19 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Yes, MDM is a key component of a full data management “stack.” But the notion of a data management “stack” is starting to feel obsolete. The deeper the stack, the more likely you are to get crushed under the sheer complexity and cost of all that software. The more complex your requirements for a “single version of truth” data management capability, the more you want a strategic partner to help you assemble the lean subset of one or more vendor “stacks” to meet your specific needs.
  • "Way Over Yonder In the Minor Key" (http://bit.ly/VVCMZ): lyric: WGuthrie, music: BBragg. Woulda been cool to hear Woody & Billy harmonize.9:15 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Both of them with homely voices, but Billy’s working class English in the lower register, Woody’s middle class Okie in the upper, somehow you know they would have merged into a righteous blend of singin’ transatlantic leftie cuzzins.
  • My initial macro-blog strategy in '04 was quick riffs on the day's news. My initial micro-blog strategy in '09 has been that + quasi-msging8:42 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---The day’s news keeps me off-balance and paying attention. Quasi-messaging keeps you that way.
  • @jowyang @rwang0 @charleneli "How Would You Define a Social Network?" (http://bit.ly/N0rnv): JK--Pub-sub P2P identity, content, & status net8:40 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---A social network is a) person to person (to person to person to person ad infinitum, building communities of greater or lesser extent), b) publish-and-subscribe (all the persons giving and taking all kinds of stuff), c) identity (all the persons publishing and subscribing their identities, profiles, peeves, passions, etc. to varying degrees), d) content (all the persons publishing and/or consuming content in the form of blog posts, status updates, tweets, podcasts, etc. to varying degrees), and e) status (all the persons publishing and subscribing to alerts re their new content, new identity attributes, new responses to other people’s content, etc.).
  • Try as I may, I cannot work hashtags into my Twitter style. Something about me doesn't want to spend my life stoking search engines.8:35 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---In the abstract, hashtags are cool: implementing a shared, user-extensible taxonomy/ontology (“folksonomy”) of key subject domains, to facilitate more efficient search, classification, and aggregation. In the concrete, hashtags are a pain: burdening tweeters with having to remember them or look them up, with having to type them into our tweets in the heat of the moment, and with having to grant them precious real-estate within the 140-char footprint. I rarely bother. There must be a better, more automatic way to implement folksonomies in Twitter.
  • "Mozilla denies it will 'ribbonize' Firefox" (http://bit.ly/3BXRSP): JK--Huh? Did I miss something? Unwelcome new verb? Clippy redux?8:34 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---I don’t mind the “ribbon” in Windows Vista or in Office 2007. I simply mind not being able to toggle to a non-ribbon interface.
  • "The multitasking myth" (http://bit.ly/gncCD): JK--My mind's only working on 1 task at time. I arrange physical self to rapidly mind-switch.8:30 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---No, I’m not some Star Trek mutant. What I mean is that I feng shui my physical space for max productivity. I pile things with exquisite attention to fast physical search and retrieval.
  • Everything blows over. Today's wind- & sun-stabbed early autumn bluster. Deck chairs. My late afternoon headache. Recollections of August.8:22 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---August augurs autumn.
  • Social media & BAM, 2-way visibility: you into customer pain, they into your processes #Forrester BTF (http://bit.ly/2F4Kky) Chicago Oct 8-98:14 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2--- Visibility is the most disruptive force in the business worlds. Social media provide the most powerful new telescope since Galileo, providing consumers, resellers, business partners, and other stakeholders with deep visibility into how enterprises are serving, or failing to address, their needs. In the process, social media, and other visibility technologies such as business activity monitoring (BAM), are changing the balance of power across organizations everywhere. In this session, Forrester analysts Natalie Petouhoff and James Kobielus will discuss the transforming role of social media and BAM, which are fostering greater engagement among stakeholders, improving customer service, and optimizing value chains. Full visibility is key: into your customers, their pain. Learn how social media and BAM enable end-to-end process visibility and thereby fuel transparent engagement between executives, employees. and customers and other business stakeholders. Understand how social media and BAM contribute to superior business performance by using visibility to clarify points of responsibility and accountability for operational and change processes. Discover how social media and BAM provide the information--voice of customer (VoC) data for social media, key process and performance indicators for BAM-- needed to transform all business functions and foster cross-organizational collaboration, multidisciplinary teaming, and agile response to competitive pressures
  • "Vint Cerf Details Interplanetary Plans for DTN " (http://bit.ly/2Li116): JK--Disruption Tolerant Networking. Old ARPANET dreams don't die.4:21 PM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Ground control to Major Vint.
  • Every time I refer to the "R" language, I put that letter in quotemarks. Helps me search for it later. Ought to be standard practice.10:08 AM Sep 29th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Inadvertent steganography. Single-character names hide in plain sight. You humans can easily pick them out of the noise, but search engines can’t.
  • Social media->conversations->reveal hidden affinities->communities->customer loyalty. #Forr BTF (http://bit.ly/2F4Kky) Oct 8-9 Chicago.7:44 PM Sep 28th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---To change the subject just slightly: Natalie Petouhoff and I both graduated from Livonia (Michigan) Stevenson High School. I’m 2 years older than her. Her photo’s in the sophomore section of my senior yearbook. We didn’t know that affinity until the week before last, when we were rehearsing our joint preso long-distance. Idle chit-chat, one thing led to the next, to the “omigod!” revelation. We never actually “met” back then or heard of each other. Though, undoubtedly, we crossed paths many times in the hallways in the 1975-76 school year.
  • RT @lcecere: "A hotel with a view of the parking lot. So much for glamorous life of an analyst!" JK--Glamour? Ha! It's non-stop hard work.7:15 PM Sep 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---There’s fun too. But the fun’s always sandwiched into and around the work. At my age, I have no idea anymore what “glamour” is. Then again, nerd that I am, maybe I never did.
  • So far the fall colors are all in the sky. Deep cool orange sunset tonight over northern Virginia. Last week's cricket din a distant memory.7:05 PM Sep 27th from TweetDeck
    • JK2---Must bring sweater to Chicago.
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