Saturday, November 12, 2011

Aweekstweets November 5-12 2011: the week Kilroy was here

#BigData ramps up the #BI promise & peril. Ramps up promise cuz U can do more powerful analysis. Peril cuz you might spend arm&leg doing it

9 minutes ago

"Beware The Big Data Hype" (onforb.es/t5rWs0) JK--Disappointing. His "3 potential barriers to #BigData " are for #BI in general.

11 minutes ago

"Occupy Wall Street Growth Map: How Fast Are 'Occupy' Facebook Pages Growing?" (huff.to/vmihEz) JK--Thanks @OlivierJouve

30 minutes ago

Has someone produced a map of places that have been "Occupy"ed yet?

15 hours ago

You know you're getting in a Christmas mood when you mistake Colonel Sanders for Santa Claus.

16 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bad as Me by Tom Waits JK--Frustratingly vague. Exactly what kinda bad is Tom Waits? How 2 tell if same kind as him?

16 hours ago

@furrier #Hw2011 #theCUBE Great #hadoop channel! Excellent coverage of the event.

16 hours ago

Hey #Hadoop vendors, indicate your true committer status on all marketing collateral. What have you contributed to #Apache #Hadoop lately?

16 hours ago

Some mistakenly called this "Binary Day." But unit doesn't constitute binary number field. That day was a year, month, & day ago: 10-10-10

17 hours ago

The Rays "Two Silhouettes on the Shade" (youtu.be/jdGYK7VpeEE) JK--1957. Expectation of privacy? Stalker? Wrong address. Happy ending

17 hours ago

Clear sign of #Hadoop market maturation. Customers starting to inquire re vendor/product price comparisons.

17 hours ago

#Forrester Hagen "What Is The Right #CX Strategy?" (bit.ly/favy6l) JK--Defines tailored intimacy as attuned, empathetic, personalized

18 hours ago

Every discussion of biz cycles that cites "greed" as the cause of a boom or bust feels medieval. Might as well cite lust, gluttony, & sloth

18 hours ago

Enjoying #Forrester Paderni "New Skills Define Adaptiv Mktg Success" (bit.ly/v93NE7) JK--Gr8 drill into must-have data-science skills

18 hours ago

Enjoying #Forrester Luca Paderni & @NigelFenwick "CMOs Must Merge Marketing With IT To Win In The Digital Decade" (bit.ly/sGr7TJ)

18 hours ago

#KEXP recruiting software engineer. Should consider #Hadoop software engineer. Cuz big bad bodacious jams are the biggest #BigData of all.

18 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp 11:11 by Rodrigo y Gabriela from 11:11 JK--Disappointed. Not 11 minutes & 11 seconds. But was 11th on LP, so it's OK.

18 hours ago

@acmurthy Which reminds me. The #Hadoop community has to have some coherent numbering for these subproject versions. I can't keep track.,

18 hours ago

@mgualtieri Raking day for me is tomorrow. At least sun will shine. After raking, I'll run & kick the football. Egidia never pulls it away

18 hours ago

@markmadsen Whoa! Jerry Sandusky's memoir was called "Touched" (amzn.to/u0Rahm). At least he revised from original "Touched Inappropriately"

18 hours ago

It's 11/11/11 11:11:11 on the west coast right now. Whew. Glad I didn't miss the second coming of Nigel.

18 hours ago

Diff btwn "conversation" & "word of mouth" is that former engages mouths, ears, & brains in social tango. Latter may just be mouthing off

18 hours ago

Enjoying #Forrester Diane Clarkson "The Metamorphosis To Agile Customer Service" (bit.ly/sgHqIC)

19 hours ago

The many Cs of agile customer service: customer-focused, consistent, contextual, cross-touchpoint, conversational, case-based.

19 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp New Big Prinz by The Fall from I Am Kurious Oranj JK--"Check the guy's track record"? Interviewing job candidate?

19 hours ago

@maslett I'm not proposing new category names here. I'm discussing the range/spectrum of use cases that new DBMS approaches being applied to

19 hours ago

Intimacy = knowing somebody else almost as well as they know themselves.

19 hours ago

@eHarmony_Lori I'm sure there's still a lot of that out there. I've been off market for years. From what I've heard, people shop online now

19 hours ago

@aTechWorld J. Presper Eckert. Not sure if he was the only one who invented computer. But I just like saying "J. Presper Eckert."

19 hours ago

#Forrester has a truly massive trove of marketing-focused research. Almost overwhelming. Good stuff. Deep stuff.

19 hours ago

Social intelligence. People equate it with "listening." But true intelligence is knowing when 2 listen, when to speak, & when to stay silent

19 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp What The Water Gave Me by Florence + the Machine from Ceremonials JK--Clearly, she's a major star now.

19 hours ago

@eHarmony_Lori Back in the ancient days when I was single, we had "date warehouses." They were called "dance clubs" aka "meat markets."

19 hours ago

@maslett Remember how the thread began with me pooh-poohing the terms "NoSQL" & "NewSQL." Are you asking me to un-pooh-pooh the former?

19 hours ago

When people say you need to "get social," say yes indeed and ask them where the party is. On a Friday, that's the social I need most.

20 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Birthday by The Sugarcubes from Life's Too Good JK--I love it! @loserboy little boy asked "is that lady drunk?"

21 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Birthday by The Sugarcubes from Life's Too Good JK--Life IS good, Bjork. Thanx. But mine's Sunday. Appreciate, though

21 hours ago

RT @KagroX: Why didn't we just make 10/10/10 louder?

21 hours ago

@maslett #NoSQL databases are for many things, but primarily analytics.

21 hours ago

Taking in-depth post-brief from #SAS on the SAS High-Performance Analytics announcement (bit.ly/t20Sc9) from Oct 26.

22 hours ago

@maslett That's what I said.

22 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Big Bottom by Spinal Tap JK--Nigel Tufnel & crew's biggest 11-amped opus.

22 hours ago

Am a bit tired for "secrets to long life" articles. Still haven't seen one that's candid enough to reveal ultimate secret: "avoid dying."

23 hours ago

"NoSQL & NewSQL" (bit.ly/vlPkA5) JK--These terms ridiculous. Just call them new database approaches for analytic & OLTP, respectively

23 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Harry Patch (In Memory of) by Radiohead JK--In honor of late last surviving British WW1 vet. Happy Veterans Day!

23 hours ago

Today is Nigel Tufnel Day. 11-11-11. "Turn it up to 11."

23 hours ago

@mattredlon There is such a technology. It's in my head. It's a big newly evolving #Hadoop lobe of the cerebral cortex.

23 hours ago

"Hadoop skills are in high demand" (bit.ly/spdTFW) JK--Yep. Think of #hw11 as a quasi-jobfair for this very hot new specialty.

23 hours ago

I like to think that all of social is my workspace. I splay out research materials & thoughts-in-progress on floor for all to step around.

23 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Your Silent Face by New Order from Power, Corruption & Lies JK--1983. Lovely atmospheric synth washes.

23 hours ago

Does eHarmony.com call their customer data repository their "date warehouse"? Haha haha. OK. I'll stop.

23 hours ago

One of those days when my entire office floor becomes my work surface. As I arrange vendor files alphabetically & shove stuff in where fits

11 Nov

Analyst. I don't know the ancient Greek, but I assume it originally meant "he who is anal enough to keep long lists."

11 Nov

Organizing the massive #BigData research paper pile in my office. Big data, big pile.

11 Nov

People at the club have 2 learn little bit of etiquette. Ya dont interrupt somebody in the middle of their set & destroy their concentration

10 Nov

Beyonce. Greatest distinction as entertainer is amazing power/control she injects into her moves. On high heels. Like Olympic figure skater.

10 Nov

RIP Heavy D. No, Ruby Dee is still very much with us. She's 87. How could Jesse Jackson confuse the two?

10 Nov

The industry needs analysts to put out forward vision statements. Not simply rehashing received "wisdom"

10 Nov

Jeff Keane will continue "Family Circus." That's Jeffy. That's a goshdarn valuable family business. Gee willikers, maybe I shouldn't swear.

10 Nov

RIP Bil Keane. No, I didn't think "Family Circus" was all that funny. But I dine on peanut butter & jelly on white bread. And take comfort.

10 Nov

Yep. Hence, #Hadoop is nucleus of next-gen #EDW in cloud. As I've stated repeatedly.

10 Nov

#Hadoop patterns: 1) bit.ly/tbYeR6 2) bit.ly/vQSCQk 3) bit.ly/tOVVWo 4) http://bi… (cont) deck.ly/~NbJ6c

10 Nov

Hadoop pattern #7: Deploy commercial Hadoop distro plus open-source Hadoop subprojects.

10 Nov

Hadoop pattern #6: Deploy RDBMS, HBase, and HDFS for diverse purposes within Hadoop architecture.

10 Nov

Hadoop pattern #5: Deploy HBase alongside other NoSQL databases

10 Nov

Hadoop pattern #4: Deploy specialized Hadoop clusters for various applications.

10 Nov

Hadoop pattern #3: Deploy Hadoop alongside RDBMS and real-time event engine.

10 Nov

Hadoop pattern #2: Deploy diverse Hadoop and non-Hadoop analytic tools and platforms.

10 Nov

Hadoop pattern #1: Deploy Hadoop within an established, heterogeneous high-performance computing architecture.

10 Nov

"Why Gingrich Could Win" (on.wsj.com/s7LUdx) JK--The GOP nomination, yes. But likely to alienate his closest allies in the process.

10 Nov

Sheer velocity, variety, & volume of new stuff coursing thru pipelines of our lives demands we each hone our "care/don't care" snap chops

10 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bolero by Pink Martini from Sympathique JK--Lovely orchestral lounge piece. Makes me want 2 sashay on the dance floor

10 Nov

@BPatNetApp #Hadoop Actually, #Hadoop a bit of a Tolkien-ish Middle-earth (bit.ly/tpra5i) that's magically morphing into real Earth

10 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Cello Song (feat. Jose Gonzalez) by The Books from Dark Was the Night JK--Gonzales an Argentinian-Swedish Nick Drake

10 Nov

Saw email with headline "No More Raises: Creative Ways to Motivate." Please don't recommend "Beatings will continue until morale improves."

10 Nov

Flash apparently fizzling. Rumor of Microsoft snuffing out Silverlight. The former "Web 2.0" browser visual brightlights dimming, it seems.

10 Nov

"Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL Team Up To Sell Internet Ads" (bit.ly/szE4Yy) JK--D'ya think they, and adversaries GGL & FB, using #Hadoop ?

10 Nov

Online advertising placement optimization. A highly-monetizable #Hadoop core use case that's central to the digital economy as we know it.

10 Nov

"Consumerization of IT: It’s a Strange World" (bit.ly/uRNwOS) JK--It's also a strange word: like "accessorize" or "jazzercise"

10 Nov

Don't think of #Hadoop as something entirely new under the Sun. Think of it as a big new uncharted continent on the same old planet.

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011 People don't normally think of #EDW as holding data for optimize customer experience. But that's what #Hadoop excels at

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011 Microsoft has a wonderful term, "ambient data," for apparently junk system-level data that, aggregated, is analytics gold

10 Nov

# OpenConnect Intros Workforce Reporting & Analysis" (bit.ly/vnL0fO) JK--Tool 4 employee/team/process productvty/efficiency monitor

10 Nov

"Just how Important is Hadoop?" (bit.ly/vnD7Yu) JK--In other words, how big are #BigData britches, and is #Hadoop too big for them?

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011 "useful for running enterprise"? all data is "useful 4 running enterprise" depends on enterprise, the app, yer ingenuity

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011 Let's see. eg, clickstream data & social media data aren't seen in most #EDWs. Hence "new to Hadoop"

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011What do you mean by "new data sources other than the obvious"? List a source you regard as "non-obvious"?

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011"new stuff that isnt webby/social?" The truly new stuff in most segments is "webby/social." Name something new that ain't

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011 7 more case studies coming out in the next 1-2 weeks--in a single doc. Tip of #Hadoop iceberg.

10 Nov

@NeilRaden What do you mean by "they've never been before"? #Hadoop addresses most EDW use cases, then some (e.g., machine learning)

10 Nov

@NeilRaden Yes way: bit.ly/oBet1y bit.ly/pBfqb1 bit.ly/ogysBX

10 Nov

@NeilRaden #hw2011 "Traditional" enterprise use cases for #Hadoop are #ETL, in-database analytics, customer analytics, etc.

10 Nov

Taking briefing and demo from #OpenConnect on their process intelligence offering, Comprehend, for visibility into employee productivity

10 Nov

"Foreigners Dont Take IT Jobs, They Create Them" (bit.ly/sQ6xjR) JK--What's matter w/ "taking" if outshine domestic candidates?

10 Nov

I thought 2012 for GOP a bit like 1988 for Dem prez nom: buncha nobodies. But these clowns have tons of negatives. Dukakis was merely a zero

10 Nov

"Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ Rank in Top 10 Social Nets" (bit.ly/vM8XnC) JK--U don't say! I thought I was their only friend

10 Nov

Interviewed by @jaivijayan of #Computerworld re which skills in hottest demand in the age of #Hadoop #BigData. Data scientists, for starters

10 Nov

@TheNextWeb Interesting that @aplusk aka Ashton Kutcher has 8M+ followers & 7K+ tweets & still hasnt said anything even remotely retweetable

10 Nov

Thinking of rewriting an Xmas song to make it a November song. Call it "Let it Fall! Let it Fall! Let it Fall!" You don't "shovel" leaves.

10 Nov

@nancykoppdw Actually, didn't know that. Not that I inquire into such matters, mind you.

10 Nov

Sagittarius "My World Fell Down" (youtu.be/MG3rS9M5lwo). JK--Usher, Campbell, Johnston, Melcher, & Boechter channeled Brian's spirit

10 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock) by Beach Boys from SMiLE Sessions JK--Brian mashed many songs in composition

10 Nov

RT @nprpolitics Romney Rolls Past Car Wrecks in Mich GOP Debate (n.pr/tecFGx) JK--He had practice cruising Woodward Ave in youth

10 Nov

Shoegazers. Your self-reflective lifestyle is incomplete without patent-leather footwear. No we wont think U any less grungy & bohemian 4 it

10 Nov

#R/GA describes self as "full-service interactive digital ad agency" (rga.com) JK--Somehow, "advertising" seems least of it

10 Nov

#R/GA a B2C-focused social media marketing optimization solution provider, moving into deeper consulting, w/ cadre of data scientists

10 Nov

Taking briefing from #R/GA, vendor of adv visualization for customer experience, digital channels, etc,w/colleagues Vidya Drego & Adele Sage

10 Nov

Brand fatigue. In social universe, we're all being told 2 root 4 "brands." What if we're sick&tired of the rah-rah? Go ruthlessly generic?

10 Nov

The Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist" (youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE) JK--See, listen, & laugh for yourself!

10 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches from Since I Left You JK--Work of art & funny. Details: bit.ly/ulq6Iy

10 Nov

Reading the Joe Frazier obits, I didn't realize Ali's trashtalk was so savage & personal. Frazier never forgave. For obvious reasons.

10 Nov

@Syncsort Great. Request through www.forrester.com/briefings

10 Nov

The #Hadoop use cases that my case studies exemplify fall into two broad categories: customer-facing & IT-facing.

10 Nov

Putting my #Forrester #Hadoop multi-company case study in close-to-final shape. Put it on hold while finalizing Hadoop Wave.

10 Nov

@LoudyOutLoud #lexisnexis #hpcc Yes, I did. But I'm up for an update whenever you're ready.

10 Nov

Also, strongly expect all of the #EDW vendors to have #Hadoop appliances on market within coming year.

10 Nov

Now that #hw11 is history, look ahead 2 massive coming-online in biz world of #Hadoop #BigData storage processinganalytics capacity in '12

10 Nov

"Why skyscrapers are overrated" (bit.ly/sRxfdV) JK--Disappointed. Expected "top 10" list. I suggest: "#1: Lack rocket propulsion"

10 Nov

"Zuckerberg: Google, Microsoft collect data "behind your back" (bit.ly/tE2Q8a) JK--Well, at least they gotcher back.

10 Nov

"IBM and big data: an introduction" (bit.ly/tI0l9j) JK--"Some product rationalisation might be nice." Lovely understatement.

10 Nov

@bigmlcom #hw11 Hardly. Life is constant exhaustion when you're a market researcher who aims at exhaustiveness.

10 Nov

"Problems with Hadoop" (bit.ly/uiLPXp) JK--Good discussion. Hey #SyncSort, reminds me: Brief me please. My info on your capab is slim

10 Nov

"Social media is dead (please share this with your friends)" (bit.ly/vZmiTW) JK--"Are" dead, technically. And "isn't dead," actually

10 Nov

#Hadoop education & training. I see #Hortonworks #Cloudera #MapR & #IBM , among solution vendors, offering this. Surely, more will surface.

10 Nov

Only one of the vendors who prebriefed me didn't announce anything at #hw11. Didn't see any announcements that I wasn't prebriefed on.

10 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Julia by The Beatles from The White Album JK--To John's late mother. Paul ref'd his own late mum Mary in "Let it Be."

10 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys from Smile JK--Wow! Listen for Brian's original end. Cool. Listen again. Cool.

10 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys from Smile JK--Rich with sonic nuance. I love the tambourine shakes midway through

10 Nov

"Splunk connects with Hadoop to master machine data" (bit.ly/ucogYM) JK--A #BigData vendor I'm starting to track closely.

10 Nov

My favorite spam subject line of the day is "Personal (Not Junk)." From a sender name I've never heard of.

10 Nov

Not only did Rick Perry's forgetfulness make him appear dumb, the position he was trying to remember was itself quite dumb.

10 Nov

Beatles "Helter Skelter" (youtu.be/QWuXmfgXVxY) JK--Paul, in fact, was both the softest & hardest Beatle. This is epic scream song.

9 Nov

Love "Seven & Seven Is" (youtu.be/hH9EGu6SHN0) JK--Arthur Lee produced the single greatest freakout song of the acid rock era.

9 Nov

PJ Harvey "Kamikaze" (youtu.be/yJCf8xr8nMc) JK--Notice how PJ and band ramp with absolute control into screaming overdrive

9 Nov

Beach Boys "Shut Down" (youtu.be/0_FWGNXYu1E) JK--The power of this car song is its streamlined economy & focused propulsion.

9 Nov

Ramones "Swallow My Pride" (youtu.be/TnrNV_7qc5M) JK--Joey could write serious lyrics with awesome economy. This is one of his best.

9 Nov

Village People "YMCA" (youtu.be/CS9OO0S5w2k) JK--Devotional. Dedicated 2 Young Men's Christian Association. Odd costumes 4 choir boys

9 Nov

The Cure "Fire in Cairo" (youtu.be/IeG1sUh911o) JK--Original lasted 30 minutes. Robert Smith spelled out every single word in lyrics

9 Nov

Tammy Wynette "D.I.V.O.R.C.E" (youtu.be/TiacBuuY7Ak) JK--Someday your little boy will tell everyone mommy & daddy are I.D.I.O.T.S.

9 Nov

RT @ConanOBrien: On tonight’s show, Cheryl Hines undresses me with her eyes. Then dresses me again. And adds a hat.

9 Nov

Neko Case "Guided By Wire" (youtu.be/vnXktGu7vg0) JK--One of her best pure country songs.

9 Nov

Rick Perry. Devil's in the details. He's a good holy man. Of course he can't remember details (bit.ly/sYsfFG). Tempt him not Satan!

9 Nov

Listening to Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire." His piano playing improved considerably when he broke with partner Dean Lee Martin

9 Nov

Ever notice how maddeningly "programmed" traditional TV feels now. Even channel-switching feels old-fashioned. Make this crap interactive

9 Nov

Every other display ad in the IT press this week seems to mention #Hadoop. I'm only slightly exaggerating. Only slightly.

9 Nov

@LoudyOutLoud #LexisNexis #alternativehadoop Yes I have. Lexis-Nexis/HPCC briefed me at length a few months back. What's new?

9 Nov

One of the great pleasures of working your core muscles is that you can sit in a chair sedentary for long periods without collapsing into it

9 Nov

Ever notice how news-deprived the "newspapers" feel now? Even big-city newspapers. I finish them in half-hour, tops. I never finish the web

9 Nov

Drinkin' wine spody-ody drinkin' wine spody-ody, pass that bottle to me.

9 Nov

"Speed-bump device converts traffic energy to electricity" (bit.ly/v8KcZC) JK--That's a great idea.

9 Nov

"Hadoop: Making Linux gobble big data" (bit.ly/uvkhYn) JK--Huh? The "modern distro" they show has apocrypha such as "Omid" & "Gora"

9 Nov

"Hortonworks to Take Apache Hadoop Beyond MapReduce" (bit.ly/vo9ktg) JK--Superset execution framework: MapReduce + MPI

9 Nov

"New Amazon AWS Cluster Lowers Costs 4 Both Customers & Amazon" (rww.to/rDsRrE) JK--Mentions pricing on their EMR #Hadoop service

9 Nov

Haven't seen anybody's FourSquare updates in a while. Same with those FarmVille updates. Can't say I miss them.

9 Nov

"Fusion-io Alliance Members 2 Deliver High Perf Scale-out Big Data Appliance" (bit.ly/sDSKAe) JK--Another new #Hadoop appliance

9 Nov

@don_r_coradix It will be published in a few weeks. If you're a client, you can engage me in an inquiry to discuss #Hadoop market, vdrs, etc

9 Nov

"How prepare 4 total breakdwn of society w/out look like (complete) lunatic" (bit.ly/sEanAw) JK--Sure. Nonparanoiacs electrify fences

9 Nov

@AdamRiglian #KnowsHisStuff It was a pleasure, sir. I do in fact speak Marketingese (with ease), but my native tongue is Cutthecrap

9 Nov

Alison Statton & Spike "Seaport Town" (youtu.be/EM_PNvTQUb8) JK--From '95's live (Japan) "Maple Snow." Original on '94 "Tidal Blues"

9 Nov

Van Morrison "The Way Young Lovers Do" (youtu.be/BFSmkY1hOsE) JK--Jazzy centerpiece of the classic "Astral Weeks" LP.

9 Nov

Andrew Bird "Fitz and the Dizzyspells" (youtu.be/4vv2EyQnqG4) JK--Feel the spell of this tune build thru dizzying fits & restarts

9 Nov

Cheech & Chong "Sister Mary Elephant" (youtu.be/DnjOwjsFJao) JK--As rendered by popsicle-stick puppets.

9 Nov

Cheech & Chong "Dave's Not Here" (youtu.be/N6wV7rAKMNE) JK--As rendered, apparently, by Transformers.

9 Nov

@VitriaTech My pleasure. It was NDA, so I wasn't sure if I should even tweet.

9 Nov

Mozilla Firefox is my favorite browser. Keeps all my most frequently used websites in persistent tabs. They load true and refresh every time

9 Nov

Something wonderful happened. While I waited 4 my order, Noodles & Co played Andrew Bird "Fitz & Dizzyspells" overhead. I sang along quietly

9 Nov

Listening 2 Steely Dan "Reeling In the Years." Preppie rock long before Vampire Weekend. "Weekend in college didnt turn out like U planned"

9 Nov

"MapR Academy Launches as Free Source for Hadoop Training Videos and Documentation" (bit.ly/t7o8ON) JK--#Hadoop 'ers crave training

9 Nov

"Hadoop-y frutti, all-rootie! Womp-bom-a-loo-bom-a-womp-bam-boom!"

9 Nov

Interviewed by Adam Riglian of #TechTarget re #Hadoop market.

9 Nov

When the next reporter says #Hadoop is "flavor of the day," I'll respond: "Yes, indeed-y! 1 scoop or 2 scoops of Hadoop-y? tutti-frutti?"

9 Nov

"IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru" (bit.ly/vlQlTR) JK--Members/crew/fans of Hoodoo Gurus (youtu.be/Izkd-ND-gW4 ) needn't apply

9 Nov

Still not getting a warm&fuzzy on the #Hadoop plans of the following #EDW vendors: #HP #Vertica #ParAccel #Kognitio #Infobright

9 Nov

"Tech-induced medical errors: wave of future?" (zd.net/vofJCU) JK--Scary, & consider tech-induced lifestyle errors that put U there

9 Nov

Everything in #BigData universe is "on steroids," or so it seems, from press/blog/PR blather. Does that mean all ineligible 4 hall of fame?

9 Nov

"Big Money for Big Data" (bit.ly/veU5Se) JK--I've spoken to dozens of startups who are likely recipients of some of that funding.

9 Nov

Wow! Three back-to-back user inquiries on #BI #EDW agile, scrum, mashup, virtualization, or what have you. Many names/approaches to this.

9 Nov

"Hadoop ready for corporate IT, execs say" (bit.ly/vEDHaE) JK--Yeah, but not OLTP. That's where #Hadoop #RDBMS hybrids essential.

9 Nov

"IT must prepare for Hadoop security issues" (bit.ly/vOkv87) JK--Authentication, access control, encryption etec factors into my Wave

9 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Intervention by Arcade Fire from Neon Bible JK--Best use of church-y organ in rock song since Procol Harum.

9 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Nightswimming by R.E.M. from Automatic for the People JK--Classic group's single prettiest song.

9 Nov

Twitter not doing enuff 2 appeal 2 narcissist demographic. Should auto-detect elevation of self-regard & dialback "similar to U" to null set

9 Nov

#BigData doesn't translate directly to big insights. As analyst, I always strive 4 closure on research. Insight blooms when info search ends

9 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus by Jane Birkin JK--Heavy breather w/ Serge Gainsbourg, who wrote. They're Charlotte parents

9 Nov

"StackIQ ....Release[s] Rocks+ 6.0 featuring #Hadoop " (prn.to/vnNGk1) JK--Powerful cluster mgt tools: multi-distro, #NoSQL, HPC

9 Nov

By the way, I often edit vendor PR headlines before tweeting. I don't forward headline-embedded boasts/claims I don't necessarily agree with

9 Nov

RT @dmenningervr "will Hadoop turn out to be the Beatles or Bieber of information management?" #HW2011 JK--Same haircut. What's the diff?

9 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Big Bottom by Spinal Tap from Spinal Tap JK--I remember seeing movie w/ Madison stoners who didn't realize it's joke

9 Nov

"Hadapt Announces Early Access for Hadapt 1.0, ....Combine #Hadoop w/ RDBMS" (bit.ly/ukKSnD) JK--HDFS, RDBMS, MapReduce, SQL

9 Nov

People think I'm at the #Hadoop show. I'm not. Got other stuff to do. But I like fostering illusion of my omnipresence if not omniscience

9 Nov

A November poem I wrote ages ago. Somehow, it came back to me: DEAR AND DREAR//We cannot escape together int… (cont) deck.ly/~5HGRO

9 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bedroom Eyes by Dum Dum Girls from Only in Dreams JK--Another excellent "girl group" in an updated classic style

9 Nov

SAP releases more task-specific analytic apps (bit.ly/tEnJhn) JK--Start reading 6 paragraphs into this overstuffed press release

9 Nov

SAP announces HANA-powered Customer Segmentation Accelerator (bit.ly/uYZbZ9) JK--Start 2/3 of way through confusing press release

9 Nov

"HStreaming Enables Continuous Real-time Analytics on All #Hadoop Distributions" (bit.ly/rur3Wd) JK--Distro-agnosticity is important

9 Nov

The morning after an email-free day is intense.

9 Nov

Hallelujah. I needed a good goddamn laugh. Goodnight & goodluck!

8 Nov

Ah, yes, chuckling at the Ghoul again makes me think I never left junior high...emotionally...patron saint 4 Beavis & Butt-head demographic

8 Nov

"The Ghoul Show" (youtu.be/44EQloUgAIo) JK--Stoner-dumb 70s mock-horror show. Filmed in Cleveland, but Detroit kids said "overday!"

8 Nov

"Nixon Resignation" (youtu.be/ZEOGJJ7UKFM) JK--History. The following month, my 10th grade history teacher was Nixon spitting image

8 Nov

"Edward R. Murrow - See It Now (March 9, 1954) " (youtu.be/anNEJJYLU8M) JK--Exorcising Sen. Joseph McCarthy from US body politic

8 Nov

"KNXT-Carson's Cellar 1950s" (youtu.be/nJU-hByJndk) JK--A very young Johnny several years before he replaced Paar on "Tonight Show"

8 Nov

Jack Paar reflecting on the fact that he showed Beatles to Americans a week before Sullivan (youtu.be/BCnENAj2jhs)

8 Nov

"The Shari Lewis Show" (youtu.be/FCRec4waj2Y) (youtu.be/qONgwRpoZ-g) JK--As a little boy, I definitely had crush on Shari

8 Nov

"Ed Wynn Show W/ 3 Stooges" (youtu.be/6Ucrt91zhn8) JK--Early TV is endlessly fascinating. Wynn had wonderful goofy voice.

8 Nov

Billy West as Larry Fine at Woodstock '69 (youtu.be/aW7r-wzwqGY) . JK--Actually, the real Fine was a dirty bird. West does him well.

8 Nov

"Bob Dylan Screen Test 1965 at Andy Warhol's Factory" (youtu.be/M--oHOn4a0U) JK--Oddly, with VU/Reed "Heroin" accompaniment

8 Nov

Nico in Warhol's "Chelsea Girls" (youtu.be/dCnBVZG3GhU) JK--Admittedly, weird tedious fidgety splitscreen eternity. Ondine was "Pope"

8 Nov

The Velvet Underground & Nico "Chelsea Girls" (youtu.be/de6ojRtD5fM) JK--She was in the Warhol film. I saw it in Ann Arbor in 1979.

8 Nov

"Edie Sedgwick In The Beatles Dr. Robert" (youtu.be/7RRMGxk_zcQ) JK--As in Warhol's Edie. Cool mash. Who did this one?

8 Nov

Beatles "Dr. Robert" (youtu.be/xFmSQKv8yF8) JK--Fairly gutsy for John to write an homage to a pusher.

8 Nov

Beatles "She Said She Said" (youtu.be/b00VTswskFI) JK--Dedicated 2 Herman: "I said I know what it's like [for my campaign] 2 B dead"

8 Nov

#Google self-driving car: youtu.be/z7ub5Doyapk youtu.be/YXylqtEQ0tk youtu.be/rOWhu_aa9kM

8 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Kareta Malam oleh Elvy Sukesih dari Beginners Guide2Asia JK--Penyanyi Jawa, "Queen of Dangdut" (bit.ly/rT7zaT)

8 Nov

The funniest guys at the gym are those who have over-developed their above-the-waist muscles. "I'm Popeye The Sailor Man, toot toot!"

8 Nov

Not that I'm super-fussy, mind you, but guys who grunt excessively while lifting weights are either devolving to gorillahood or showing off.

8 Nov

@MarshaCollier You are quite welcome, Laughing Lady!

8 Nov

@AlecBaldwin Fave Kevin Kline movie is "Sophie's Choice." Dude outshone Meryl Streep, in my hubristic opinion. Hoffman came close in "Doubt"

8 Nov

Now, for all-important celebrity tweeter category, trophy 4 least-funny tweets by star who makes me laff in other media goes 2 @AlecBaldwin

8 Nov

The trophy for best updating of the "Kilroy was here" peeping from behind wall in a Twitter photo goes to @WarrenWhitlock

8 Nov

The award for best use of some dude cupping his hear to hear tweets better goes to the Twitter photo of @WeejeeMedia

8 Nov

Now I praise the Twitter profile photos of people I follow but don't know. I enjoy every time "laughing lady" @MarshaCollier comes around.

8 Nov

Apparently, Godfather's Pizza's ex-CEO made lots of ladies offers they could refuse. And did. Vehemently.

8 Nov

Told Kathye at our age the grim reaper looms in the distance. Don't fear the reaper. Grab your cowbell & bang away. MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!

8 Nov

Wished 5-days-older-than-me cousin Kathye Mangene a happy one. Wished her the old-fashioned way: phone call. We've earned our fogeyhood cuz!

8 Nov

George Harrison on why the Beatles couldn't last: "can't be on front page of everybody's life every day."

8 Nov

Dear Herman Cain: Please invite your campaign mgr 2 blow convincing smokescreen in front of your live address. Flash us that creepy grin too

8 Nov

Dear Infomercial Ambulance Chaser: Why should anyone engage attorney who can't spell "substantial" correctly in their ad? Substance matters

8 Nov

Where's that King Lear quote? This one? bit.ly/cTdErn

8 Nov

"Google TV Gets Its First Porn Channel" (bit.ly/v8bmAQ) JK--Google PR team vigilant. No use of "Google" as naughty nickname.

8 Nov

@skemsley Whence the US promptly responded by outstripping UK industrial production, pops, & per-capita income 80 years later.

8 Nov

"How Hotmail will wage war on newsletters" (bit.ly/s1rxb4) JK--Huh? That's my main use of Hotmail. Whence most of my tweeted stories

8 Nov

Ah yes, the War of 1812. They don't make wars like that anymore.

8 Nov

"Spectra Logic Launches ExaScale Storage for 'Big Data'" (bit.ly/uuVUqz) JK--Big Storage. Ms @VanessaAlvarez1 knows Big Storage!

8 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Jacksonville by Sufjan Stevens from Illinois JK--1st pop mention of Andrew Jackson since youtu.be/LsRK3DNoa_Q

8 Nov

Terrible reason #1 for not tweeting: Can't express complex thought in less than 140 characters.

8 Nov

Britney Spears "Toxic" (youtu.be/LOZuxwVk7TU) JK--Written by Miike Snow. Check out their "Silvia" (youtu.be/aZO1nMuZSnI)

8 Nov

An email-free day can be highly relaxing. Yes, I've been working. Writing/revised/tuning #Forrester reports I'm authoring. Busy, but quietly

8 Nov

Berlusconi stepping down. Not clear if his harem...I mean cabinet...will carry him, garbed in his ceremonial toga, on a perfumed sedan chair

8 Nov

Been a fine day so far. Everything spooled out more or less as expected. Glad everybody's getting up to speed on #Hadoop. Complex stuff.

8 Nov

Needles in haystacks. Speaking 2 data mgt pros re what's ailing companies' initiatives, often scores of needles, indistinguishable from hay

8 Nov

Even LoC doesn't know how #bigdata it is (1.usa.gov/sHhgAd). Let's just assume peta now, exa later this decade, zetta next decade

8 Nov

Every tech industry bubble is everybody collectively intuiting some fundamental new pattern & stoking each other 2 place bigger bets. Boom!

8 Nov

Work email down. Everybody who needs to send me urgent email, try me at jkobielus @ gmail.com

8 Nov

@mgualtieri Shutdown social media during civil unrest? Makes lotsa sense. Massive unruly crowds cant possibly spontaneously "occupy" streets

8 Nov

See #Forrester @VanessaAlvarez1 "Big Data Needs More Than Just Big Storage" (bit.ly/tIBcsO). Costly storage limits #BigData potential

8 Nov

This #hw11 seems to be #HBase coming-out party. Notice the range of vendors with #Hbase -centric offerings.

8 Nov

#Splunk to Provide Integration With Apache #Hadoop (ow.ly/7mO30) JK--Signficant. Machine-data analytics w/ #MapReduce

8 Nov

Interviewed at length by Todd Weiss of #computerworld re the #Hadoop market & best practices.

8 Nov

When the earth is rattling, do you dare to stand under the arch? Do you trust the heavens less than human engineering? What will fall first?

8 Nov

Those "promoted tweets" are starting to annoy me in TweetDeck. I can't banish them from tops of hashtagged columns. Out, out, damn promos!

8 Nov

@VanessaAlvarez1 Besides, all my brother & sister analysts, from various firms, doing a fine job of reporting/vetting up close at #hw11

8 Nov

@VanessaAlvarez1 Believe it or not, I often find covering shows at a distance just as productive as in person. Gotta be flexible. Stay sane.

8 Nov

@VanessaAlvarez1 Hey, good stuff all. Irony is I'm putting final touches on #Hadoop Wave & case study docs. Already prebriefed on all news

8 Nov

Waiting for my NDA vendors to go on record at or around #hw11 . Lots of great innovative stuff percolating in #Hadoop arena. Announce please

8 Nov

@TonyBaer #hw2011 #hw2011 #Hadoop expertise is in short supply. I'd be disappointed if VCs don't put $$$ into training & education startups

8 Nov

#Cloudera has the widest range of partners in the #Hadoop space. That's for sure. #hw11 . Partner-focused: just like #Teradata in #EDW arena

8 Nov

"5 Vendors 2 Watch @ #hw11 " (bit.ly/t9p9NF) JK--Arista (hw), TD/Aster (SQL-MR), Karmasphere (model), Revolution (R), Tableau (viz)

8 Nov

There are maybe 2 dozen solution providers actually shipping prod in today #Hadoop market. And key cloud/SaaS providers, most notably Amazon

8 Nov

@dmenningervr #Hadoop #HW2011 Oh, OK. It's definitely the up-and-coming #BigData customer analytic data storage, processing, & mgmt layer.

8 Nov

By way of context, entire #Hadoop solutions market today has maybe 1% the revenues of the entire #EDW solution market. #hw11

8 Nov

@TonyBaer #hw2011 Hmmm....#Hadoop for in-database analytics executed in parallel against SVOT data store. Something smells very #EDW here

8 Nov

@dmenningervr #HW2011 360-degree view of customer. Hmmm....don't tell me that #Hadoop being used as #EDW. I refuse to believe it.

8 Nov

What's happening in immature #Hadoop market is that vendors are rushing 2 provide repeatable solutions. Right now, every deploy very bespoke

8 Nov

@TonyBaer #hw2011 Purists. Agreed. Remember that every tech- and/or vendor-oriented show is own special reality distortion field. Caveat

8 Nov

@TonyBaer #hw2011 #Hadoop is cloud analytics layer optimizing OLTP for Next Best Action etc. Serious & growing overlap.

8 Nov

@dmenningervr #Hadoop #HW2011 #Hadoop & #RDBMS have already converged in majority of real-time deployments. #Hadoop is #EDW staging layer.

8 Nov

@acmurthy Yes. When you consider that maybe 90% of #Hadoop users still in test/dev, we see huge amounts of data coming online in 2012

8 Nov

@TonyBaer #HW2011 You know it dude! Catch my real-time #Hadoop pattern discussion at bit.ly/us0zX4

8 Nov

"IBM's Watson beats Harvard students in 'Jeopardy!' quiz" (bit.ly/ukSBot) JK--Fun fact: "Watson" a Yalie. Knows Skull & Bones secrets

8 Nov

@davidwihl #hw2011 Next 12 months, #Hadoop ecosystem will focus on packaging (appliance), biz apps (BI), & model tools (MR/Pig/Hive/Mahout)

8 Nov

@jdcryans #hw2011 Ballpark: if avg #Hadoop cluster has ~100TB, and there are ~10,000 clusters in world (many test/dev), that's 1 exabyte

8 Nov

RT @ImAmyO: Accel Partners announced $100M fund for big data startups @ #Hw2011 JK--VCs in aggregate putting many times that into this space

8 Nov

@ScotFinnie @jaivijayan #hw2011 202PB of data under management by Hadoop? Understatemnt of year. YHOO alone has 200PB (bit.ly/oBet1y)

8 Nov

"Cloudera, NetApp Strike At EMC" (bit.ly/tF2N9Y) JK--Or, more accurately, #Hadoop distro vendors scramble to field appliances.

8 Nov

In just a few weeks, see how the #Hadoop market actually shakes out, when my #Forrester Wave publishes.

8 Nov

RIP Joe Frazier. Was a formidable foe to Ali. He'll always be compared to Ali, of course. He fought with dignity. Definitely not a bum.

8 Nov

#Hadoop is an architecture at the heart of which is #MapReduce as model execution & abstraction layer. HDFS, HBase, etc are options.

8 Nov

Let's disabuse selves of misconception that there's a discrete platform called "Hadoop" or that HDFS is synonymous w/ #Hadoop.

8 Nov

"Another look at big data" (bit.ly/skgexK) JK--"HBase on top of #Hadoop"? Howard doesnt realize HBase part of Hadoop. On top of self?

8 Nov

Email's down now. In emergency, DM me here. Thanks.

8 Nov

"What Mick Jagger and Warren Buffett Used to Do" (bit.ly/tx7cle) JK--Disappointed. Wanted 2 C photos of them jamming with Keef.

8 Nov

Saw "Another Year" on DVD. Started humorous, ended a bit sodden. Could have used a bit more levity, bit less drama. The drama shows age you

7 Nov

Fairly starry night tonight. Air is clear and still.

7 Nov

Tom Petty & Heartbreakers "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (youtu.be/aowSGxim_O8) JK--"Last dance w/Mary Jane, 1 more time to kill the pain"

7 Nov

Don Henley "The Boys Of Summer" (youtu.be/UsqcDXizFmE) JK--"Saw Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. Dont look back. U can nevr look back"

7 Nov

Gregg Allman "I'm No Angel" (youtu.be/NWNKHi2joJE) JK--Pickup lines: "Let me show U my tattoo." "Let me start a fire with your spark"

7 Nov

Harvey & The New Moonglows "Mama Loochie" (youtu.be/GNOEqyFTEC0) JK--Marvin Gaye's1st lead vox. Video not Marvin. I'm not complaining

7 Nov

Birthday cometh. Age just number, that puts U 1 year closer 2 death. Is mind over matter, if dont mind yr matter decomposing 4 all eternity

7 Nov

"Hadapt Secures $9.5MM Series A Financing" (bit.ly/sEEyNZ) JK--A couple of weeks ago. #Hadoop with #MapReduce over #HDFS & RDBMS

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Got Love If You Want It by Slim Harpo from Excello Singles Anthology JK--Like a captivating streetcorner bluesman

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Satisfied by Tom Waits from Bad as Me JK--Wow! This one kicks serious tail too.

7 Nov

"Cloudera Nets $40M in Series D Funding Round Led by Ignition Ptnrs" (bit.ly/tbhU02) JK--Strong confidence vote from VC community

7 Nov

"21 Free Apps to Keep Your PC Healthy" (bit.ly/vkx9fQ) JK--Has anyone tested interaction of those 21 inside your PC? Overdose risk?

7 Nov

30+ minutes of "our agents are standing by" on hold is only slightly less ear-ritating on speakerphone than on headset or handset.

7 Nov

Junip "In Every Direction" (youtu.be/SwgnU8c32m8) JK--"You are the center and you are always free in every direction."

7 Nov

Org structures. Very useful as coordinate system for introducing self 2 others. But please dazzle w/new dimensions in every direction.

7 Nov

Interviewed by Cade Metz of Wired.com re today's #NetApp #Cloudera announcement at #Hadoop World

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp When I Was Young by Nada Surf JK--Good song delivered today through time machine. Says "Released: 2012."

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist: Cannonball by The Breeders from the album Last Splash JK--Kim & Kelley were the real Deals.

7 Nov

I actually can't stand long poems. I'm much more Dickinson than Whitman in my bones.

7 Nov

@CHBoorman HADOOP//The elephant's brain/evolved to extend/its prehensile to/every crevice, feel/out every nut, and/extract the kernel.

7 Nov

@nickpatience Hey Nick, I sweat to work as much nuance into a tweet as possible. Consider it a hobby.

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Slippery Slope by The Do from Both Ways Open Jaws JK--New, but sound like post-punk's Delta 5 (bit.ly/uaysAq)

7 Nov

@nickpatience Oh. If U put it in "Yahoo, like Xerox w/ PARC, failed 2 leverage own innovations into max cashcow potential" context, I agree

7 Nov

"Platfora Secures $5.7 Million in Series A Funding for #Hadoop #BigData #BI" (bit.ly/qObkZ6) JK--2 months ago. Coming out of stealth

7 Nov

@nickpatience #Yahoo Not really. YHOO not a "lab" per se & not wellspring when WWW sprung forth. Just another biz built on & building WWW

7 Nov

#Microsoft SQL Server 2012 licensing: bit.ly/rPe07p bit.ly/rNSxNt

7 Nov

"Can MapReduce Be Made Easy?" (onforb.es/uQ0YS5) JK--#Hadoop vendors will compete with developer-friendly visual modeling tools.

7 Nov

"Just Because Data Is Portable Doesnt Make It Safer" (bit.ly/sYWKS2) JK--Who writes these headlines? Portability always vulnerability

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Graveyard by Feist from Metals JK--Song's power builds with every repeated listen.

7 Nov

Apple now has a readymade excuse for every screwup ("Steve wouldnt have done that") & story 4 each success ("Steve's spirit prevails").

7 Nov

"Can 'dumb users' B trained 2 not make mistakes that lead 2 exploits?" (tek.io/tiebFZ) JK--If you phrase it like that, answer's "no"

7 Nov

"When You Tweet, the CIA Listens" (bit.ly/t6pXo6) JK--Really? They use advanced technology? I thought they were all cloaks & daggers

7 Nov

"Robots vs Humans: Real Steel or Dumb Metal?" (bit.ly/sBkeK1) JK--Hey watch it! Androids have feelings (youtu.be/-p3wFWCPx3c)

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Protection by Massive Attack from Protection JK--Dedicate this to MA fan @nancykoppdw . One of @tracey_thorn best

7 Nov

"Harvard Business Review: Gates, Not Jobs, Deserves Recognition" (bit.ly/vuXg0j) JK--Enuff of this "revenge of the nerds" backlash

7 Nov

Let's see. Which storage vendors now have #Hadoop appliances running #Cloudera ? Dell, SGI, NetApp. Who's next?

7 Nov

" #Hadoop Start-Up Cloudera Teams Up With Storage Player NetApp" (tek.io/sSZUQi) JK--Appliance: "NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop"

7 Nov

"Why did you become an IT consultant?" (tek.io/sSZUQi) JK--You became one 2 have occupation that's extraordinarily boring to describe

7 Nov

"2 Reasons Videoconf Remains Niche" (bit.ly/uFr2Ax) JK--3rd reason: unless you're incredibly good-looking, your face adds no value

7 Nov

"7 Billion People, Now in Dashboard Analytics" (bit.ly/uKUOZ0) JK--KPI = greatest good for greatest number? Hug a utilitarian!

7 Nov

"Is Solitude the Secret to Applying Analytics?" (bit.ly/uNGQNJ) JK--Secret to grokking it, yes. Give we analysts space 2 think please

7 Nov

"Big Data Point-Counterpoint" (bit.ly/sj36nZ) JK--Disappointing. I thought it would have #Hadoop & #EDW swap ad hominems.

7 Nov

Interesting. A new social seems to think that my email address is something I abandoned in the late 90s. Where they getting these addresses?

7 Nov

"IBM's Platform Decisions & HPC" (bit.ly/vna0yG) JK--Article fails to highlight Platform Computing's growing #Hadoop push--& IBM's.

7 Nov

"Google Reveals Whys&Wherefores Behind Targeted Ads" (bit.ly/vKsdKf) JK--Dont care "Why These Ads?" Gimme "Dislike These Ads" option

7 Nov

"Google says Apple's Siri threatens search" (bit.ly/rUOSYq) JK--Really? I didn't realize "search" is an entity that can be threatened

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Don't Make Me Kill You by Angela Alexander & JD Sandler JK--"I'll make you funky chicken till you're dead"? What the?

7 Nov

"10 Surefire Stressbusters" (bit.ly/uiP8kh) JK--Who compiles these ridiculous lists? #10 is essentially "get laid after hours."

7 Nov

@0_h_r_1 has published "Poets & Hackers" as e-book. Contains subset of the "C" segment of my longer book. Mine are alphabetical by title

7 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bad As Me by Tom Waits from Bad As Me JK--This song is truly bad. Baddest song of the year.

7 Nov

Yes I check my bulk mail folders religiously. I still like 2 believe that email is reliable messaging service. All legits will make way 2 me

7 Nov

Composition is simply arrangement of elements into some effect that you nurture into being, some suggestive heft. Doesn't have to be fussy.

6 Nov

Starting to dig Facebook's three-panel display of uploaded photos. I post from my cameraphone with eye toward how 3 images compose together

6 Nov

"Goddamn" is one of the best adjectival intensifiers in the English language. Use it sparingly.

6 Nov

Yo La Tengo "Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" (youtu.be/4G9NZvebscw) JK--Hoboken's sonic shapeshifters w/blistering 10-min jam

6 Nov

The Flaming Lips "Fight Test" (youtu.be/7EbrMAZbFpo) JK--A great serious inspirational song from too-quirky-by-half Oklahomans

6 Nov

Sebadoh "On Fire" (youtu.be/jcbmBm5k-dc) JK--The breathtaking bass guitar on this, and Lou Barlow's sonorous vocal, burn hot crimson

6 Nov

The Vaselines "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" (youtu.be/-zYwjhJuNAE) JK--Most of their stuff was jokey. This was dead serious--& great

6 Nov

The La's "Timeless Melody" (youtu.be/Eus8vzjBVaQ) JK--This late 80s/early 90s Liverpool rock group had exceptionally strong songs

6 Nov

Pixies "Wave of Mutilation" (youtu.be/hvHJOus1pRo) JK--This slow reverby version is nice & creepy-cool. Full of foreboding

6 Nov

Hüsker Dü "Makes No Sense At All" (youtu.be/J1sYN0PuRs4) JK--The grainy monochromatic quality of their speedpunk was very Minnesota.

6 Nov

Ben Franklin. He was to the French what Davy Crockett was later to the Americans. A self-manufactured "noble savage" myth-man.

6 Nov

Lovely fall Sunday afternoon. Walking in my extended neighborhood. By "extended" I mean a mile south & east. Manchester Lakes & Kingstowne.

6 Nov

Listening to Cee-Lo Green "Forget You." Singing original lyric.

6 Nov

Listening 2 Guess Who "American Woman." Y have no US rockers rspnded 2 this Canuck slap @ Yank pulchritude? Suggest barbed pucks @ 20 paces

6 Nov

Kmart. It has survived Wal-Mart challenge. But who mentions it anymore? Near as I can tell, this tweet is its 1st mention ever on soc media

6 Nov

I'd like to declare moratorium on Adele "Rolling In The Deep" until the 2020s, at which point we'll need ready material for 2010s nostalgia

6 Nov

Candidates. Refrain from mopping your brow on-camera. What a wonderful image for photojournalists to signify "campaign in trouble."

6 Nov

"ABC This Week w/ Christiane Amanpour." Speaker Boehner on "class warfare." Disappointing. Referring 2 fed crackdown on campus foodfights

6 Nov

Apparently there's law that all (quasi-)scientific authority figures in infomercials wear white lab smock. In case of hydrochloric acid spew

6 Nov

I never use the metrics on the elliptical. My analytic is gut feel. Physical intelligence.

6 Nov

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen from Ocean Rain JK--A masterpiece of windswept moodiness.

6 Nov

Andy Rooney's bit in SNL replaced "Point-Counterpoint," which was memorably lampooned in this SNL bit (youtu.be/k80nW6AOhTs)

6 Nov

Men's Health Living mag cover story: "Build Your Perfect Life! And Strip Away Stress For Good!" Inside: "How to Literally Live Forever!"

5 Nov

Watching video of Katy Perry "Last Friday Night (TGIF)." apparently, dorky boys haven't changed their glasses or hair styles since 1962.

5 Nov

Anti-smoking is an entirely distinct issue from anti-food&drink campaigns. Smoke literally fouls the environments of other people's bodies.

5 Nov

Spurlock's anti-fastfood & Pollan's anti-HFCS campaigns feel like overkill. I long ago marginalizd that in my diet 2 "spice of life" status

5 Nov

Michael Pollan's "a desk is not a table " assumes a) you have a table, b) time, & c) lunch so splendid it requires special surface 2 lay out

5 Nov

Michael Pollan's "dont eat anything yr gramma wouldnt recognize as food" assumes gramma actually knew how 2 cook foods that were palatable

5 Nov

A nationwide sales tax on top of state salex taxes would place disproportionate burden on class least able 2 bear it. Reject it vehemently!

5 Nov

George Washington. Victorious general who became 2-term president. Warned us about the militia-musketry complex. Did we listen? No.

5 Nov

Will monitor announcements from this week's Hadoop conference, which I won't be at. I've been prebriefed on many. But probably not all.

5 Nov

People tend 2 think NC's all country-western. Far from it. Asheville has thriving electronica scene. Listenng 2 recent NPR podcast frm there

5 Nov

Listening to latest #KEXP Music That Matters podcast. Don Slack/Yates, host of Swingin' Doors. Weekly country-western show.

5 Nov

People tend to think Seattle is just indie-grunge. Far from it. They've got vibrant hiphop, country, & folk scenes too. Bit o' everything

5 Nov

Vader and Palpatine's Google+ accounts suspended for being "fictional". Guess which planet's going to be "fictional" by Monday?

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