Selecting vintages from our extensive wine cellar to bring to our friend who's just passing through the DC area. Trader Joe's best!
1 minute ago
Well, I guess the sales pitch was effective, then.
38 minutes ago
Sorta caught up on a buncha things this week. Had to re-explain #Hadoop (vis-a-vis everything else) more often than I woulda liked.
1 hour ago
Taking a week-end breather. Deep breathing, anticipating the weekend soaker and bluster.
1 hour ago
As of this coming Monday, the new #Forrester HQ will be 60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge MA 02140, northwest of Harvard.
3 hours ago
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Fearless by Pink Floyd JK--Interpolating "You'll Never Walk Alone." Fearlessness is when you choose to walk alone
3 hours ago
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Fearless by Pink Floyd from the album Meddle JK--One of those vibes you must let into every pore, tickling all over.
3 hours ago
Just did inquiry from enterprise analytics pro on #Hadoop best practices. Had my best practices cheatsheet. Will publish it in report soon
4 hours ago
I've always felt queasy about the cult around Steve Jobs. It's always been focused on a guy making elaborate sales pitches.
6 hours ago
"The ROI Of Next Best Action: Measuring The Lift From Improved Customer Experience" (bit.ly/rmivZV)
6 hours ago
"CFO's Terror (on.fb.me/nPaSxQ)"
8 hours ago
Did any so-called psychics predict the East Coast Earthquake this past Tuesday? Easy way to find out. Anybody put it on social pre-quake?
10 hours ago
Wow! Yankees hit 3 grand slams in 1 game!
10 hours ago
Morning mood not always where it needs 2 B. U R permitted 2 make tiny behavioral adjustments 2 restore it 2 its former whereitneedstobeatude
10 hours ago
Several of us #Forrester analysts took a #BigData briefing from #IBM today. Mostly about InfoSphere Streams. Accent on V = velocity.
22 hours ago
And of course Base #SAS. I try to help customers to understand what stat tools, SAS and/other vendors and/or R, are best for them to license
22 hours ago
Had 2 ask #SAS again yesterday 2 clarify funct overlap, trgt users, & dependencies among EM EG RPM & JMP. Their customers ask. I try my best
22 hours ago
Outer Banks a relative thing. If washed away, outer surrender that status to the next inner layer of banks.
22 hours ago
Epicentric-spreading-ripples TV news graphics have given way 2 eye-centric northward-sliding pinwheel pix. From sudden to predicted disaster
22 hours ago
Even some vendors in the space see #Hadoop for what it is now, warts & all, not for evolving context of #Big Data ecosystem in which it fits
22 hours ago
Tysons can never be "downtown" in classic "all-hours magnet" sense. Most NoVa residents've learnt 2 avoid its snarl. Go there only as needed
23 hours ago
Towers upon which Metro Silver Line will run R going up along Rt. 7 in Tysons. Exactly what this nondescript "downtown" needs. Its own El.
23 hours ago
Toner issues with both printers at the Tysons office today. Tried to address myself. To no avail.
23 hours ago
Worked away from home office today. Did a quick McDonald's run in rain. Don't do that very often. The McDonald's, I mean. Big Mac meat so-so
23 hours ago
"Business Case For Real-Time BI Tools Rests On Data-Access Speed Needs" (bit.ly/n6kH7P) JK--CEOs aren't all that hooked on CEP.
23 hours ago
Taking briefing from #Teradata #AsterData on cool new stuff under NDA.
25 Aug
Taking briefing from #WiseWindow, provider of "Mass Opinion Business Intelligence" social sentiment monitoring dashboarding service.
25 Aug
@Brett2point0 Played "Within You Without You" on my commute this morning. Rocks my world back into equilibrium. Every time.
25 Aug
20-year-old me probably wouldn't have given a rat's patootie about #Hadoop. I was deeper into Pac-Man, at that point in my life.
25 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ooh La La by Faces JK--Trust this oldster: U don't really want 2 wish that U knew what U know now when U were younger
25 Aug
Scoping the #Hadoop market is half the battle. Once you have a clear, fair, valid scope, comparative solution analysis becomes a tad easier
25 Aug
Taking update briefing, me & @bevelson, from #Kognitio, analytical DB vendor w/ software, appliance, & SaaS offerings, in-mem & disk-based
25 Aug
Drives me nuts when two or more vendors I cover use the same project codename at the same time. Lose a second or two of focus recalibrating
25 Aug
It's really overstating the matter to say the industry was shocked by Jobs stepping down from CEO. His health issues widely known.
25 Aug
Apple minus its core. Jobs will always remain the guiding spirit of the brand, if nothing else.
25 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Sweet Lord by George Harrison from All Things Must Pass JK--One of few devotional songs to become massive pop hit
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Mozambique by Bob Dylan from Desire JK--Album that showed "Blood on The Tracks" not a fluke. Bob was truly back.
24 Aug
"Paul Allen on His Love for Old Computers" (on.wsj.com/rjohoz) JK--That's fine as long as not cryogenically preservng old programmers
24 Aug
"Electricity-Harvesting Device May Put Power in Your Steps" (bit.ly/ndKqTR) JK--So, having ants in your pants is good for the planet
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Coconut by Harry Nilsson from Nilsson Schmilsson JK--Song twists same phrase around same key. I tweet repeatedly
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Heart of the Country by Paul McCartney from Ram JK--A fun loose relaxed Paul + Linda gem.
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry JK--These dudes British? Coulda fooled me. Sound NewOrleans ( bit.ly/pvIMsZ )
24 Aug
I love how #KEXP Roadhouse is playing early 70s radio songs as "roots" tonight. Many of us re-rooted our rock aesthetic post-60s.
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Stuck In the Middle With You by Stealers Wheel from 7" JK--One of most irresistibly twangy springy radio songs of 70s
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Jeepster by T. Rex from Electric Warrior JK--Song I never heard back in day. Not till KEXP. As great as "Bang A Gong"
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu by Johnny Rivers from 7" JK--Another great early 70s radio song updating 50s
24 Aug
The post-Jobs Apple. Will it fare as well as the post-Gates Microsoft?
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Hear You Knockin' by Dave Edmunds from 7" JK--Early 70s saw 50s revival. See video of this: bit.ly/q20r4r
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Kodachrome by Paul Simon from There Goes Rhymin' Simon JK--My fave Simon solo, and one of best LPs of the 1970s.
24 Aug
@Greendrv Thanks. Those were two non-sequitur thoughts jammed into a tweet. But somehow they felt poetically kindred.
24 Aug
I make point of not follow peeps whose sole Twitter topic is 2 thank people 4 following. "That's a lovely dress you're wearing Mrs. Cleaver"
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Checkout Time by Nick Lowe from The Old Magic JK--New. Country. Authentic. Awesome.
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Help Save th Youth of America by Billy Bragg frm Talking w/th Taxman About Poetry JK--Pls make Billy honorary citizen
24 Aug
So far this week I've caught up on a lot of transcribing of own notes, for semi-finished verbiage to go into #Forrester reports I'm writing
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Lucky Now by Ryan Adams from Ashes & Fire JK--Lovely one from his new album, due out October 11.
24 Aug
"Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple" (on.wsj.com/nkgvIL) JK--Obviously, his legacy is secure.
24 Aug
Listening to Stuart Moxham "Unit of Desire" from "Signal Path." Love how his voice floats above a busy electronic swirl.
24 Aug
Listening to Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass "Whipped Cream" from their greatest. Lots of guys in the 60s got lots of mileage from LP photo
24 Aug
Listening to Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from "Nvrmnd." One of most exquisitely modul8d electrochrged screams of anguish ever recorded
24 Aug
Listening to The Beatles "A Day In The Life" from "SPLHCB." Reading today's news. Oh, boy!
24 Aug
Listening to Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss "I'll Fly Away" from "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrak. I've flown away 2 my afterwork hangout
24 Aug
Many field-proven MPP #BigData approaches remain unsung or unsingable, embedded inside one-off oper analytcs platforms or topsecret deploys
24 Aug
#SAS has a fairly extensive "R" integration throughout their modeling tool portfolio. They need to summarize & present it in unified way
24 Aug
Taking briefing from #SAS on JMP Pro
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Come to Mary by Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter from Marble Son JK--Gorgeous, soaring. Almost sounds devotional.
24 Aug
Did my #Forrester Q3 teleconf on measuring customer experience improvements from #CRM Next Best Action.
24 Aug
"Amazon Goes After Cloud App Speed Bumps" (bit.ly/p9Vu8T) JK--Sounds cool. Why does the story cut off?
24 Aug
Are we living in a POC? Just before the Big Bang, do you suppose somebody said to God: "Universe. Yeah, great idea, but it won't scale"?
24 Aug
Nailed the #Hadoop best practices into my upcoming #Pervasive #Karmasphere 4 webinar. Sept 7 & 8. Register: bit.ly/q56d93
24 Aug
Local news is doing fewer people-on-street interviews. They've cut back on staff & gotten lazy: just show on-air parade of peeps who tweet
24 Aug
Of course, tweeting "iPhone" in any context (Bjork-full or otherwise) unleashes a swarm of bots tweeting offers to sell me one. Buzz off!
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Carmensita by Devendra Banhart from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon JK--Artist is equally cool in Spanish & English
24 Aug
Cool thing about Bjork is that she's fearless about taking creative chances that leave you puzzled, breathless, & oddly exhilarated.
24 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Crystalline by Bjork from Biophilia JK--Icelandic artiste's new LP downldable as iPhone apps simulating microbe devel
24 Aug
@todddube #BigData I'm still concerned that Apotheker seems 2 think that "software" is a market. It's not. It's a solution delivery vehicle
24 Aug
"SAP's Sybase: big data by the people, of the people, for the people" (bit.ly/oxvgED) JK--Quotes yours truly.
24 Aug
Does HP's Autonomy acq have "Big Data written all over it"? I'll believe that only if HP blends Autonomy + Vertica, and goes deep on Hadoop
24 Aug
"Amazon Launches AWS GovCloud for the U.S. Government" (bit.ly/pl7ppc) JK--No Elastic MapReduce. But I suspect only matter of time
24 Aug
Hurricane bearing down on the east coast. Just to remind us that disasters come top-down as well as bottom-up from Mother Earth.
24 Aug
After a while, it got annoying to hear people interviewed on TV reporting on how the earthquake felt. We all felt the same event.
24 Aug
Hold on! The eligibility requirements 4 ladies to get on VH-1 "Basketball Wives" include "ex-fiancee of"? Can "ex-hopeful" getcha into NBA?
23 Aug
Earthquake has occasioned temporal displacement of my Tues workout into evening hours. Watching TV news graphic of pulsating 5.8 in Cntrl VA
23 Aug
For my reading lamp to fall face forward, I bet the sharpest shock's vertical displacement was quarter inch or so.
23 Aug
This quake felt like distinctly vertical displacement of earth's crust. Like 2 sharp hammer cracks. SoCal 1992 quakes were lateral rolling
23 Aug
#businessintelligence buyers/users only (no vendors, no consultants) please contribute to our software pricing survey bit.ly/nW2hkr
23 Aug
Dear #Hadoop Wave vendors and others in this market inquiring about the Wave: Please connect 2 me only through Shannon, my RA.
23 Aug
Did the quake shake some money loose on Capitol Hill? I'll bet there's plenty under Congress' sofa. We need to scrounge for every last cent.
23 Aug
San Francisco was peaceful and tranquil, seismologically, last week. Lulled me into a false sense of geological security.
23 Aug
#Hadoop best practice: Don't install a single point of failure HDFS name-node on any location that rides on Earth's tectonic plates.
23 Aug
During that shaky 5-10 second period, my next best action was instinctive: get out of the house ASAP! I was in middle of vendor briefing.
23 Aug
I have never ever seen high-vol Twitter stream speed by as fast as the zillion tweets from me & others right after East Coast Quake. Man!
23 Aug
@maggymaggy Thanks. I'm sure tomorrow's headlines will read "James Kobielus unscathed by Eastern Seaboard quake (millions of others too)."
23 Aug
I had to walk inside and outside my house to make sure a plane or copter hadn't crashed into it. It was THAT sudden and intense.
23 Aug
Quake's bark worse than bite. My desk lamp fell forward, undamaged. A little foam monkey fell off my bookcase. I picked it up.
23 Aug
Before then, oddly, a quake (much milder) in Detroit in mid-70s. Listening to Tigers on radio one afternoon. Ernie Harwell mentioned quake.
23 Aug
Last time I experienced temblor of this magnitude was '92 in Orange County CA, twice in one morning with my then-5-year-old son on shoulders
23 Aug
#KXEN doing interesting things. Several things that I'd like to tweet about are NDA.
23 Aug
Taking refresher update briefing from #KXEN
23 Aug
Well, that #Hadoop vendor made the earth move for me today. Won't say who is was. Wouldn't be prudent. Cue Dana Carvey as GHWBush.
23 Aug
Actually, recollecting recent sense memory on VA quake: was 2-3 seconds of serious rumble, punctuated by jolt, then deep teeth-jarring shock
23 Aug
Epicenter of earthquake was 100 miles SW of me, in Louisa County, VA. I'm in Fairfax County. Sudden jolt followed by sharp shock. We're OK.
23 Aug
My reading lamp fell face down on my notes while interviewing a #Hadoop vendor.
23 Aug
Earthquake in northern Virginia. What the f?
23 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Wallingford by Damien Jurado from the album Saint Bartlett JK--From last year. Fresh emo for a new decade.
23 Aug
Join me #Pervasive #Karmasphere for webinar "Big Data: Role, Value, & Best Practices of #Hadoop" Sept 7 & 8. Register: bit.ly/q56d93
23 Aug
Often speak of "talking heads" TV commentators. Web-only equivalent are "typing hands." Sometimes, fresh comment extrudes from fingertips.
23 Aug
Those incoming-message lower-right pop-ups in Windows are semi-annoying when you're in middle of typing something & they hijack your clicks
23 Aug
Essentially, a dry run of this week's #Forrester webinar for all clients, but with a greater "quality of experience" value-add thrown in
23 Aug
Delivered webinar on #CRM #NextBestAction customer experience optimization on consulting basis to large #Forrester customer. Went well.
23 Aug
Half of analysis is simply transcribing your own notes and thoughts legibly for you to consume.
23 Aug
Strange that my WiFi connection hiccups when get text (on VZN Wireless). Are frequencies so close that cross-channel interference an issue?
23 Aug
Just reviewing one of my #Hadoop case studies. Combines Hbase, HDFS, and MySQL for various functions. Not atypical.
23 Aug
Toggling btwn #BigData tasks & #NextBestAction tasks this morning. All of this is evolution of my core #Forrester areas, not radical shift
23 Aug
@NickiCransqj175 Not talkin' 'bout those kinds of "models" sweetie, but thanks for the follow anyway.
23 Aug
What is #Oracle bought #HP PC business? Not saying it's going to happen. Just saying "what if..."
23 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rave On by Paul Burch from the album Words of Love: Songs of Buddy Holly JK--Nice zydeco-ish take on the tune.
23 Aug
Any discussions of what #Hadoop is must stay close to the bone of what the community/industry is actually making of it.
23 Aug
#Hadoop pluggable storage layer = any or all of HDFS, Hbase, Cassandra, NoSQL, RDBMS, etc, beneath the MapReduce modeling abstraction.
23 Aug
#Hadoop analytics modeling layer = MapReduce + Pig + Mahout. #Hortonworks developing MapReduce 2.0 to expand range of algos & models.
23 Aug
Thanks
23 Aug
No, that's too simple, because MPP is a scale-out approach that's at heart of #EDW and many other non #Hadoop app and middleware environmnts
23 Aug
Process logic often a combo of orchestration mode, predictive analytics model, and/or deterministic biz rules. Transforms key to analytics
22 Aug
@Greendrv Influence feeds on itself in that hall of mirrors way. You influence people who influence U & we all spread influenza far & wide
22 Aug
@drluckyspin #Hadoop All of those are apps driven and optimzed through advanced analytics.
22 Aug
@SethGrimes #Hadoop In fact, #Hadoop is, in practice, an evolving analytics modeling layer over pluggable analytics-optimized storage arch
22 Aug
"6 Enlightened Ideas Brought to You by Evil Empires" (bit.ly/papDng) JK--I suspect this means Kim Jong-Il a sttrong candidate 4 Nobel
22 Aug
@drluckyspin Haven't seen a single OLTP app of #Hadoop. Analytics are the only apps being built on top.
22 Aug
RT @MJMcKean: RIP Jerry Leiber who, with Mike Stoller, brought humor & intelligence into early rock'n'roll. Irreplaceable.
22 Aug
@SethGrimes #Hadoop #Apache Yeah, but that's irritatingly vague & overshoots mark. Says nothing about adv analytics, which is #Hadoop core
22 Aug
"Psychology of Text Relationships" (bit.ly/o1sLkl) JK--From 2004, so slightly predates today's social mania. But good analysis anywho
22 Aug
Don't tell me we're going to be searching in caves for Gadhafi for the next 10 years.
22 Aug
BTW, ask any two vendors or users for a crisp definition of #Hadoop that isn't annoyingly vague. Confused? That's part of the problem.
22 Aug
RIP Nick Ashford. He & wife Valerie Simpson wrote & produced many smooth soul hits that others took up the charts, including Gaye/Terrell
22 Aug
@webmetricsguru #socialchat Actually, my business/practitioner customers want analysts to guide in Socratic dialogue. The truth is within
22 Aug
@ocdqblog #Quote Picasso should have added that the trouble is how to stay an artist and make a living at it as you grow up.
22 Aug
@deejayChilly You actually try, and usually get the Spanish right without sounding fussy. @kurtbreighley is awesome too. I learn from him.
22 Aug
Nice thing about #KEXP deejays is that usually pronounce foreign names correctly. Case in point: @deejayChilly--"El Sonido"--Español--ahora
22 Aug
@Greendrv Your influence score calculated by Klout's #Hadoop cluster.
22 Aug
Saying analyst firms have to evolve is sort of obvious. In fact, they have evolved to occupy all niches in this particular ecosystem.
22 Aug
"Like" is essentially tweeted comment minus payload. I care more about yer quip than yer smile. Love is cheap. Piece of yer mind is precious
22 Aug
"Top 10 Science Hoaxes" (bit.ly/oNHbdQ) JK--Dont believe em for a minute. No credibilty. Evolution & global warming missing from list
22 Aug
"The History of the Net" (bit.ly/nwm9X9) JK--Poorly organized. Needs to distinguish "Before Al Gore era" from all that followed.
22 Aug
"Old Version.com: Because Newer Is Not Always Better" (bit.ly/n8lyrM) JK--Definitely needs "like" button + some moist raspberries
22 Aug
"Almost Every file format in the world!" (bit.ly/mSJMpq) JK--Almost as full of evolutionary dead ends & junk as the human genome.
22 Aug
"10 Search Engines to Explore Invisible Web" (bit.ly/cw0RSS) JK--OK, OK, curb your enthusiasm! No obvious porn search optimizer apps
22 Aug
"Aerogel: See-Thru, Strong as Steel & Lighter than Air" (bit.ly/9pK37w) JK--Wonder material, eh? Where's the "now here's the catch"?
22 Aug
"Computer Stupidities" (bit.ly/9j6apg) JK--Site apparently written by Nic Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy (bit.ly/dnGIAO)
22 Aug
StumbleUpon takes my twitter style to a new level. See something flash up: analyze and characterize it in haste. Move on. Repeat. Chop-chop!
22 Aug
"What Does Yr Body Language Say About You? How 2 Read Signs & Recognize Gestures" (bit.ly/flT74k) JK--And not get self-conscious?
22 Aug
@merv Let's hope Leiber and Doc Pomus are writing some catchy new material for all to hear when we go to that big sock hop in the sky.
22 Aug
@thetroynelson Troy, it's always cool to worry whether owning a lava lamp is key lifestyle decision. Your postmodern indecision becomes you
22 Aug
@merv Just seeing titles of Leiber-Stoller songs sets them in immediate rotation in the jukebox of your mind. Yakety Yak. Poison Ivy, etc
22 Aug
Digging the Zune software that will remain on my Windows desktop, independent of that defunct media player. Beautifully designed experience.
22 Aug
Starting to get back into appreciating network evening news. They package up high-level takeaways. Don't drown you in 24x7 talking-head nits
22 Aug
RIP Jerry Leiber. He & Mike Stoller crafted some of the most memorable early songs in rock-n-roll heaven. Their songs were among most iconic
22 Aug
Spent another day reminding people that #EDW and #Hadoop, both of which rely on MPP, are the chief approaches for #BigData.
22 Aug
Refusing 2 participate in Wave indicates vendor presupposes ultimate criteria, scales, weights, scores, & ranking. Don't assume.
22 Aug
Listenin 2 Springsteen "Born in the USA." Liberal rockr turned cool trick midway thru Reagan years. Some thought this protest song patriotic
22 Aug
Encouraging news from Tripoli. I can go short on bit.ly tweets & long on deck.ly in clear conscience. Not relying on dictator-sponsored URLs
22 Aug
Refreshing low humidity and wonderful breeze out here on my deck lounge chair. Head defintely needs a spacy place to decompress.
22 Aug
Wasn't a whole lot interesting in IT industry news today. Or maybe I skimmed it too quickly.
22 Aug
Still in process of writing up notes from my #Hadoop case studies. Distilling best practices from those.
22 Aug
Today's customer inquiries were the usual range of my usual topics. Had to declare the limits of my knowledge as much as plumb the depths.
22 Aug
Notice how the date "September 11" stings less, culture-wise, with every passing year.
22 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Here's Where the Story Ends by The Sundays from Reading, Writing and Arithmetic JK--Sorta makes ya nostalgic for 1990
22 Aug
To the extent that any one vendor is the primary committer to #Apache #Hadoop, and others choose not to, that vendor drives community.
22 Aug
@apearson #Forrester Yes. Comprehensive, accurate, deep, even-handed, useful, visionary look at the entire #Hadoop market now & near future
22 Aug
This is a market of apples & oranges in a basket called #Hadoop. No two apples are the same variety either.
22 Aug
Loved "Curb Your Enthusiasm" last night. Larry & Rosie O'Donnell competing for the same woman. Edgy,funny, thought-provoking.
22 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Want the World to Stop by Belle and Sebastian from B&S Write About Love JK--Nice, futile sentiment. Spins us dizzy
22 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Last Living Rose by PJ Harvey from Let England Shake JK--Yet another example of what an awesome poet PJ is!
22 Aug
@apearson #Forrester I will only exclude a vendor if they provide info that would indicate they do not meet the inclusion criteria.
22 Aug
@apearson #Forrester If a vendor refuses to participate in a Wave, they are essentially sacrificing opportunity to provide inputs & review
22 Aug
@jeunice Why is that a question? Because vdrs tend 2 forget that weve already done deep research on them. We're not dependent on them 4 info
22 Aug
BTW, #Forrester reserves right to include a vendor in a Wave even if the vendor opts not to participate. If vendor is in scope & important
22 Aug
schmap.it/2L6ud0 << just added a comment to this schmap!
22 Aug
#Hadoop, as impl by vdrs & users, refers, at heart, 2 various approaches 4 execute MapReduce models across 1+ nodes in an MPP architecture.
22 Aug
Have tweaked the #Hadoop Wave inclusion criteria after reading all feedback. Have made selections. Expect invitations to go out soon.
22 Aug
@geoffrobinson "Sybase IQ listed for defense contractors"? When can a database walk on two legs and function as a contractor? Gotta see that
22 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack from the album Can You Dig It? JK--Prefer theme song to that exploitation film.
22 Aug
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Europe Endless by Kraftwerk from Trans Europe Express JK--Group has been massively influential on world pop.
22 Aug
IMHO, Robbins wuz robbed. He built the biz, but Baskin got his name above the hyphen.
21 Aug
Why do gay males obsess over straight women singers but not over gay female chanteuses? Where are campy cabaret imitators of KD & Melissa?
21 Aug
Chillin at Springfield's Barnes & Noble, wondering what electronics retailer or women's shoe Big Box will eventually take over this space.
21 Aug
Why exactly do we call Franconia-Springfield Metro Station the Joe Alexander Transportation Center when Alexander still walks the earth?
21 Aug
Walking outside along perimeter of largely moribund Springfield Mall. Auto dealers & rental car firms use its vast parking lot for inventory
21 Aug
"Keep It Small, Stupid" is all about the downside of Big Data, and about how you can secure & advance yr Big Data thru inevitable backlash
21 Aug
Only semi-decent CD left at liquidating Borders is Elliott Smith. But a melancholy m'piece by a man who killed self aint no way 2 say byebye
21 Aug
Hailed by Ishmael. Hail fellow, we'll meet.
21 Aug
Have read all vendor feedback on draft #Hadoop Wave inclusion criteria. Turning the crank.
21 Aug
Listening to Built to Spill "Goin' Against Your Mind" from "You in Reverse." Walking to Borders to see if any marked-down CDs left.
21 Aug
Surprised we don't see any "Big Data" initiatives coming from Capitol Hill. Wait, I'm not. The "Big" part smacks of big federal budget init
21 Aug
"Sculpture showing all boards that are cut from single log" (su.pr/1MezQv) Jk--Where's the sawdust? Need that 2 B artfully sprinkled
21 Aug
I breathe deeply & contemplate all my many burning tasks. I breathe deeply.
21 Aug
Preparing my slides for Strata Summit, Tues Sept 20, NYC on "Big Data: Keep It Small, Stupid." See ya there, smart people!
21 Aug
@HilaryCampbell "Mr. Ranger isn't gonna like that, Yogi."
21 Aug
Patents becoming so thick in wireless that vendors will need new RF protocols designed to propagate signals through litigious interference.
21 Aug
Michigan International Speedway in Irish Hills. Takes me back. Remember when place was new. Nearby Camp DeSales. Backstroking Vineyard Lake.
21 Aug
Cindy used word "yogi" today. Had 2 restrain self from breaking into "Hey Boo-Boo, let's do a down dog & filch some pic-a-nic baskets" voice
21 Aug
Sliced bread. Not as great a thing since we learned about its excessive carb content.
21 Aug
Infomercials for skin care treatments always show "before" photos w/ frowning people & smiling "after" faces.
21 Aug
Infomercials for skin care treatments always show "before" photos w/ unflattering lighting: dim, angular, accentuating creases & blemishes
21 Aug
Thank you cable infomercial for that magnificent simulated voyage inside a dog's mouth to explore festering root causes of its bad breath!
21 Aug
A Turing test would not be able to distinguish the average sportscaster from a high-intensity robot. They neverending hype-cliche machines.
21 Aug
