Damn busy week gone by. Gonna be
another to come, Then the one after that. Then the one after that: #IOD2012. Work
cut out for us all.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Set You Free by The Black Keys from
Thickfreakness JK--2003. Beautifully muscular electric-guitar boogie in 70s
vein
RT @tcarmody:
This "worst movie death scene ever" is pretty amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrlIK_ArzeM&feature=player_embedded …
@TonyCarrini Silver lining, I suppose. Just be
thankful your lying dog doesn't lay turds on the couch.
Luv those TV-screen-shaped
"as seen on TV" stickers on some home-furnishing doodad packaging.
Very 1962. I heard about it on AM radio too
Beach Boys "Shut
Down" (http://youtu.be/nxXWjR6q5u4 )
JK--My personal fave of their car songs. Fast, streamlined, full of forward
motion
Ween "Bananas
& Blow" (http://youtu.be/6Gd87JmkAkE )
JK--I just rode the association train from Velvet Underground to this
funny/clever group
Beach Boys "In My
Room" (http://bit.ly/2YgW6V )
JK--Surprisingly, John Cale cites them & Four Freshmen as influence. This
song
Me the IBM guy &
Michael Cavaretta the Ford guy on webcast found sumthing in common. Hometown: Livonia MI
Andrew Bird
"Masterswarm" (http://youtu.be/ZgKokFIn3_U )
JK--Staff producing TechLines webcast says Bird performed in the space. He's
awesome
R. B. Greaves
"Take A Letter Maria" (http://bit.ly/4F6NAl )
JK--Died this past week. Wonderful story-song. Wounded heart, promise of new
luv
Isley Brothers
"It's Your Thing" (http://youtu.be/MD-9eOWsp8o )
JK--1969. Totally funky groove thang.
Isley Brothers
"Shout" (http://youtu.be/VL9xOLpwI0I )
JK--1959. Their 1st big hit. Even bigger 19 yrs l8r in "National Lampoon
Animal House"
Isley Brothers
"Harvest for the World" (http://youtu.be/usIyVup8-rs )
JK--1976. Great inspirational R&B with bouncy snap & handclaps.
Listening to NPR All
Songs Considered podcast with guest DJ playing songs from his great new LP:
"Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood."
New #IBM jk blogpost: "Workload-optimized
Systems? Integrated Management for Maximum Administrator Productivity" (http://ibm.co/QC0V4c )
Data scientists wont
be rockstars till they write statistical models up in front of stadiums &
see results projectd on jumbotron behind them
Next week I'll be
publishing between 7-10 #IBM #bigdata articles, blogs, quickhits, &
podcasts. Deep pipeline.
NYC's Trump SoHo is a
pleasant, low-key, well-managed property with courteous, conscientious customer
service. Strong recommendation.
Glad I didn't watch
that stupid debate. All reports indicate there was no real dicussion &
neither candidate respected Jim Lehrer.
Since Jobs passed
away, Apple's been groping its way thru uncharted terrain. Now, their new maps
service wants us to join the experience.
"Debunk."
Odd word. What's this "bunk" that it neutralizes reverses or
corrects? Bunk as in "bullshit." Or as in "bed." Wake up!
Be fresh!
TechLines: #BigData Debunked live stream" (http://zd.net/SPLyUH ) JK--Playback. We didn't
debunk anything. Discussed applications
"5 things you
missed at ZDNet's TechLines event on #bigdata last night" (http://zd.net/QYeRaW ) JK--Stuff we jawed about in
SoHo .
Romney apologized 4
his offensive/condescendng "47%" remark. Raises another question: sez
he's religious but does he truly believe anything?
Everybody's
"hands-on" this and "hands-on" that. That's fine. I prefer
hands-on massage therapists. The theoretical kind don't appeal.
Nice to be home,
casually dressed, bare feet on cool floor, grounded, listening to music,
working just as frenetically as ever. Clear.
Grover's own V
monologue (http://youtu.be/GQb6gTJD7zA ).
Child-friendly.
Finished next week's
quick-hits. My nervous system needs weekend. NOW!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses
from Appetite for Destruction JK--Best pop guitar-god stadium-rock anthem of
80s
Got grape jelly on my
spacebar.Wiping it off introduced several lines of clear white nothingness into
the blog I'm writing. I'l keep it. Zen
This wk Koby #IBM q-h's: http://linkd.in/UIP984 http://linkd.in/UIP9oN http://linkd.in/UIP7xb http://linkd.in/UIPbwQ http://linkd.in/UIPec3
Workload-optimized
systems? Integrated management for maximum administrator productivity (http://bit.ly/UIOQKG ) Today's #IBM quick-hit
Workload-optimized
systems? Integrated management for maximum administrator productivity: http://lnkd.in/p-NkNP
Techline switched
cameras yesterday between 5-shots & talking heads. Had onstage monitors on
all sides. Distracting 2 see self while talking
Cabbing it to
LaGuardia at 6:30am. Two espressos inside me. I still feel asleep.
My fave CNN crawler of
the morning: "Stars come to Big Bird's defense."
Watching The Office
with closed captions. The UPPERCASE DIALOGUE TEXT is best part of program. @jasonkobielus is a genius!
Chillin at some
pleasant Italian restaurant near Trump SoHo. Young professionals light &
casual. Ah, yes. My salmon arrives.
Greene Performance
Space. Adjacent to New York Public Radio in SoHo . Live broadcasts of musicians such as Patti Smith. I
want to meet her.
"Marc Andreessen:
We're in the 'opposite of a bubble'" (http://bit.ly/SFO5ji ) JK--Wazzat? A porous membrane
incapable of inflating?
The "Mad Men
Era"? Huh? I think of the early 60s as the "Flintstones Era."
Pebbles' & Bamm Bamm's arrivals were the pivotal events.
When in the big city
on street at midday among the throngs moving rapidly, one is always near the
corner of Wherezis St & Whatchamcallit Ave
"Why #BigData matters: The experts weigh in" (http://tek.io/R0BNDk ) JK--Catch us at 4:30pm
today. Live, from New York
NYC's SoHo . Technically, it should be NoHo. It's north (and east)
of Houston TX
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen from A
Night at the Opera JK--1st time I heard this on rock radio was "what the
f?" moment
When a LinkedIn friend
lists job title simply as "Title," either a) they're not 100% focused
on self-promotion or b) they'll do whatever
Workload-optimized
systems? Clean-slate design for optimal appliance performance (http://bit.ly/QvC4Pw ) Today's #IBM jk quick-hit
Workload-optimized
systems? Clean-slate design for optimal appliance performance: http://lnkd.in/sXS6Qw
Listening to Lynyrd
Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama "
on radio in car taking me into Manhattan Alabama
Washington Nationals
close out regular season with best record in Major League Baseball. DC-based
press torn between 2 October campaigns.
Baseball trivia:
Miguel Cabrera is the only Triple Crown winner in the past 45 years who doesn't
have a Polish surname.
Interesting. Both the
AL & NL batting crown winners have the same last name.
Congrats 2 Miguel
Cabrera on his Triple Crown. I thought his winning the Derby
Larry Fine at Woodstock
4 Non Blondes
"What's Up!" (http://youtu.be/chysEoANK7c )
JK--One of my favorite over-the-top vocals of the 90s.
My LA-based son has
dayjob doing closed captions 4 final season o The Office. I instructed him 2
have Dwight Schrute endorse #IBMconstantly
Sade "The
Sweetest Taboo" (http://youtu.be/Fhu6zA7dvXM )
JK--Not only does she sing it deliciously, song has an exquisitely tantalizing
title
Donna Summer ''Heaven
Knows'' (http://youtu.be/xTaydm8wGR0 )
JK--Late singer injected genuine vocal soul into disco's artificiality
Mary J. Blige & U2
"One" (http://youtu.be/ZpDQJnI4OhU )
JK--The soul diva's powerful voice is exactly what completes this. Definitive
version
Santigold
"Disparate Youth" (http://youtu.be/mIMMZQJ1H6E )
JK--Speaker today at #deast showed online mktg campaign featuring
this performer
Tom Waits "16
Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six" (http://youtu.be/0XLdxxJEB80 )
JK--The master of fractured brutalist beat/blues deconstruction
Tin Huey "Squirm
You Worm" (http://youtu.be/tI8j3lzR70M )
JK--Now THIS is the Tin Huey sound: fractured manic goofy-ass jazz-whacked pop
Tin Huey "I'm a
Believer" (http://youtu.be/Ud11xA6b_9Y )
JK--Unusual for them: a) not their composition, b) not goofy/artsy. Not bad.
Not hit
Wall of Voodoo
"Ring of Fire" (http://youtu.be/ZS_CQkPavyc )
JK--An early EP. Luv the Cramps-on-synth groove & Ridgway sideshow barker
voice
"Obama Wish If
Bin Laden Captured" (http://huff.to/RdRjw8 )
JK--Darn. Hope he'd taken Larry Fine advice: "Lets pluck him & see if
he's ripe"
New #IBM jk blog "Built for and Building
the #BigData Cloud" (http://ibm.co/Sycr2U )
"Data scientist
jobs hiding under less sexy titles" (http://bit.ly/Wk5Lps )
JK--Not really hiding. But please dont call yrself "PigMeister."
Drives me nuts when
somebody uses the colloquial "drops" to mean "launches" a
new product. "Drop" also means opposite of launch: discontinue
My personal soc media
publishing sweetspot? Real-time (when spirit moves), scheduled (new q-hs/blogs
each day/wk), trigger-bsd (responses)
#deast12:
"Do U know yr company's [soc media] publishing sweet spot?" R-t vs
scheduled vs trigger-based bsd on community interaction levels
Presenter at #desast12 discussing "how will you manage
SoLo (social to local)?" I feel new industry buzzword a-birthin'
I'd like to see
YouTube channel dedicated to video clips of presenters at IT conferences fumbling
with the clicker. I'd be on it, for sure.
Met Nicole Gillen of
3Pillar Global at #deast12 in Herndon VA.
I'm at #deast12 in Herndon VA
"Big mainframe
shops embiggen" (http://bit.ly/PWlSHi )
JK--"Embiggen"? Did Lewis Carroll reincarnate as press release
writer?
Workload-optimized
systems? Built for and building the big-data cloud: http://lnkd.in/GesjFG
"#IBM Boosts Security, Cloud, Analytics
w/New Power Systems, Storage, & MF Techs" (http://ibm.co/Vs6MfH ) JK--Plus elastic capacity
on demand
Workload-optimized
systems? Built for and building the #bigdatacloud
(http://bit.ly/PWiBYs ) Today's #IBM quick-hit
Workload-optimized
systems? Built for and building the big-data cloud: http://lnkd.in/4Mm9vS
Just drafted my next
original #IBM blog: "Next Best Action Driving
the Fluid Modern Experience."
@s_v_g Anyway
I'm not speaking on James Kobielus' behalf. I'm an#IBM spokesperson. One simply adopts
different persona in that circumstance
@s_v_g My
master's is in journalism. In addition to dayjobs, I spent early career in IT
press freelancing, asking questions o vendors galore
@s_v_g I
simply anticipate questions of all sorts. Smart or not smart? Not for me to
say. Tough or powderpuff, I simply must respond re#IBM
"TechLines
panelist profile: #IBM's
James Kobielus on big data talent" (http://zd.net/OBxnXy )
JK--I do their panel on Thursday in NYC
Second press briefing
of the day re #IBM #PureSystems.
Interesting to be the one doing, not taking, the briefing. Getting into it.
@IBMbigdata Scale-in: increasing density of cores,
CPUs, DRAM, storage, blades, etc within each workload-optimzed expert
integrated system
The "self-google
to find something useful from my pubs to reference" model doesn't work
when it's a not-yet-published blog I wrote last wk
I write so much stuff
that, half the time, I recall I published something somewhere recently that I
need to reference. Easiest 2 self-google
New #IBM jk blogpost: "Workload-optimized
Systems? Scale In, Out and Up for Balanced Big Data Configurations" (http://ibm.co/QLg3hJ )
Marty Robbins
"Don't Worry" (http://youtu.be/sB7H6pT3DW4 )
JK--1961. Guitarist Grady Martin introduced odd hardrocky electric texture into
it
Wonderful music
trivia: Neil Young was briefly a Motown artist in 1966 (http://n.pr/UCvR4n ). Not actually making this
up.
Cool, cool, cool. Will
do another Calgary
"#BigData:
Is that your final offer?" (http://tek.io/SAcxmd )
JK--Pops phrase "cinematic visionography" into it without explaining.
"The Plural Of
Data Is Not Analytics" (http://bit.ly/SAc0AT )
JK--Nobody ever said it was.
My next original blog
will be called "Next Best Action Driving the Fluid Experience."
Grooving again to
Stuart Moxham's "The Huddle House" LP (2007), which I bought on
iTunes last night. Exquisite over English breakfast tea
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople
JK--Hey, dude, I so want to relive junior high. Not.
Burned some midnight
oil. Some important press briefings briefings bright & early. #IBM #PureSystems
Workload-optimized
systems? Scale in, out, and up for balanced big-data configurations (http://bit.ly/P7PjJi ) Today's #IBM quick-hit
Workload-optimized
systems? Scale in, out, and up for balanced big-data configurations: http://lnkd.in/JqyJH8
Billy J Kramer &
The Dakotas "Bad To Me" (http://youtu.be/2CMX0mCFYJ4 )
JK--Oddly, I didnt know name of this Merseybeat gem till a moment ago
Wine, woman, &
song. We're listening to songs. Woman's over there happily consumed by her
online game. I just poured our respective glasses.
Stuart Moxham's solo
output? If you love Alexi Murdoch, Richard Hawley, Neil Halstead, Jose
Gonzales, Nick Drake, Stuart Staples, ...
I don't know about
you, but I absolutely love any footage of mid-60s TV rock-music shows with
go-go dancers. Pretttier/sexier the better.
Just
purchased/downloaded Stuart Moxham's superlative "Huddle House" LP
(2007). A little personal prompting by the Original Artist himself
Clyde McPhatter
"A Lover's Question" (http://youtu.be/aq2n5TiCaCU )
JK--Wonderful lilting vocal performance that just feels good all over
Grooving to The
Cowsills "Indian
Lake
Fun fact: Righteous
Brothers were originally quintuplets. Bill & Bobby's parents got that
lovin' feeling.
Teacher points to pic
of current US
Per my standard
practice, I scrape all press releases & reporter articles to doc, and read
all in batch, after a lag.
Yes, indeed, as
predicted, well within 24 hours all the requisite detail on Ellison
announcements yesterday to parse what's really going on.
Ah, root beer. A taste
that immediately sends me back to age 10, summertime, and being served by
carhops at A&W or Elias Bros. Big Boy.
RT @tracey_thorn: In "Oh, the
Divorces" I sang verse about Jens Lekman, and here on his new single he
answers me backhttp://bit.ly/OzAOxX
New #IBM blogpost: "Workload-Optimized
Systems? Patterns o Expertise 4 Built-in Solution Best Practices" (http://ibm.co/W904KP )#puresystems
I suspect that #NoSQL is actually a contraction of
"No[end to new] SQL(-like dialects]."
Re-reading Google
whitepaper from 2010 on GGL Dremel aka Apache Drill (http://bit.ly/QwEmML ). Fast exec of analyses on
MapReduce job outputs
"#BigData Fuels Rise of Containerized Data
Centers" (http://bit.ly/SgOOh5 )
JK--Think o them as workload-optimized modular IT-infra buildings
Global citizens? If
that's what we're becoming, should we ask astronauts to show global passports
as they're re-entering earth atmosphere?
"Opinionated
Infrastructure: A Google+ Hangout with James Governor@monkchips of Redmonk & #IBM #PureSystems"
(http://linkd.in/SgDnGi )
http://lnkd.in/ZFxw9v I saw every last C-level big data
strategic use case/case study that I enumerated a) as an industry analyst...
"How #BigData helps bosses make better
decisions" (http://bit.ly/SgwtAH )
JK--OK. Just dont give Dilbert boss a pointy-haired #Hadoop cluster
ROI of data mining?
Money does indeed grow on trees. Decision trees. Ha ha ha. OK, I'll stop.
October 1. Calendar
tells me autumn has arrived. My bare feet on the floor of my basement home
office tell me too. Putting on my sandals now
#IBM sponsoring ZDNet/CBSi TechLines #bigdata panel live webcast Oct 4 430pm ET (http://zd.net/V68btI ). Me, NASA, Ford, T-Mobile,
Archimedes
However, if the Linux
penguin started spewing non-stop obscenities, or endorsed one of the
candidates, that would be newsworthy.
I'm curious why Linus
Torvalds using a curse word to disparage a US
I try not to trust my
own self-critiques on stuff I produce. Others don't always share my POV. I just
produce, let chips fall where may
Someone at #IBM Canada described reaction to one o my
recent talks to customers as "rave reviews." That's cool. Better than
my self-critique
@EFGoodness I don't think Obama is a natural
speaker. He's essentially a sharp lawyer arguing cases with analytic rigor.
@EFGoodness That was good. He rarely flubs an
impression. What I like about his Obama is the staccato oratorical
rhythm.Fred's a drummer.
Saw Jay Pharaoh's
Obama impression on that SNL special last Thursday. Not as funny as Armisen's.
Put the biracial Mr. Armisen back in it.
Workload-optimized
systems? Patterns of expertise for built-in solution best practices (http://bit.ly/U0rntz ) Today's #IBM quick-hit
Workload-optimized
systems? Patterns of expertise for built-in solution best practices: http://lnkd.in/h4YTMa
Almost feels
inevitable there'll be Weird Al Yankovic parody, "Gangland Style,"
where he plays PSY orchestrating Valentine's Day Massacre.
My one-word career
advice to everyone is "plasticity": capacity 4 continuous alteration
of neural pathways in response to experience. Flex.
Busy week ahead. One
speech, one web-tv panel, 5 quick-hits, 6 blogs, at least 1,000 emails to
process, plus phone calls, meals, etc.
@data_nerd @freebalance There was never a one-word piece of
advice from anybody, other than "money." And I don't actually groove
on money.
How I got to where I
am in my career now is a bit of a mystery to me. None of this has had any master
plan. I simply stayed stubbornly me.
Actually, I found
myself continually having to backtalk or simply resist lots of career advice
that I felt was not in my best interest.
Besides, none of my
elders ever gave me a shred of useful career advice at any point in my
schooling or afterward. I simply persisted
I apologize to every
college student now & in future who wants my career advice in detailed
email. Don't want to be cold. But why should I?
Cat Stevens "Oh
Very Young" (http://youtu.be/bP6B9HttRI8 )
JK--Dedicated to all the college students who ask my graybeard career advice
One thing I noticed in
my years as industry analyst is that you don't need 2 B physically present at
every event to get all relevant details
@dahowlett #oow I'm sure they'll have all the relevant
details up on their website within 24 hours. The world can wait.
@dahowlett We have several people on the floor
there. I'm happy to let them brief us to whatever he/they said. Don't need this
in real-time.
@marksmithvr I say email us the details of whatever
it is he's asserting. Thanks.
@dahowlett We're prepping for #IOD2012.
Which specific Ellison cost claims are you referring to?
@MoJoe Please
be specific. What are these data discovery "activity 'modes'"? Can
you tweet a link to a doc discussing them?
Cool time-lapse
animation of changes to Europe 's political map
from AD 1000 to the present day (http://bit.ly/TY75AM )
TweetDeck browser view
is better than TweetDeck dedicated Windows client view. And doesnt crash.
Windows client stalls for no seeming reason
Black turtlenecks.
Actually, turtlenecks in general. I've never liked them, for the same reason
I've never liked neckties. Choking feeling
@MoJoe You
lost me there. How do you distinguish between exploring and discovering?
@KevinSpacey puts out his first tweet in almost 3
weeks. Best is his profile: "Former shoe salesman now making a go at film
and theater."
"Google Maps
Brings Panoramic Underwater Images of World's Reefs" (http://www.eweek.com/search-engines/google-maps-first-panoramic-underwater-images-of-worlds-reefs/?kc=EWKNLEND09292012STR3 …) JK--Check this out (http://www.eweek.com/search-engines/google-maps-first-panoramic-underwater-images-of-worlds-reefs/?kc=EWKNLEND09292012STR3 …)
Google Earth has cool
seafloor topographic view of world's oceans. Network of ridges supporting South
Pacific archipelagoes jump out at you
"Schwarzenegger
kept many secrets from wife Maria" (http://yhoo.it/W5c1Be )
JK--BTW, honey, I'm running for gov & screwed the housekeeper
"F-Commerce:
Business Boom or Bust?" (http://bit.ly/Swptti )
JK--Not sure if I should target my suggestive crack to the "F" or the
"bust"?
Eleanor Friedberger
"My Mistakes" (http://youtu.be/jjK-Ab8t7Ug )
JK--2011. Sing-speaks in a deep tough smart voice. Multi-layered person
Dum Dum Girls "He
Gets Me High" (http://youtu.be/hOZgb0T7AM4 )
JK--Their vibrancy tends to carry you along on soaring wavelengths.
Sleater-Kinney
"Dig Me Out" (http://youtu.be/FbmZi_VS4ZM )
JK--Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss vibrated with fiendish glee
Throwing Muses
"Bright Yellow Gun" (http://youtu.be/Z3z-BDz6BmY )
JK--1995. Kristin Hersh & Tanya Donelly had really sharp rock attack.
The Bangles "Hero
Takes a Fall" (http://youtu.be/2WTjBdRtM2U )
JK--Always loved arrangement of their voices within tight rock arrangements
Stopped subscribing 2
Village Voice in early 80s after enduring 1 issue after anothr o Robert
Christgau's petty axe-grinding music criticism
But the "meet
bands" part of it quickly grew old when I actually met them and found that
many were desperate smartass condescending fools
The "Almost
Famous" clip I facebooked reminds me of reason I did the "rock
critic" thing in college years: free records/shows, meet bands
The only good thing
Lester Bangs ever did was have Philip Seymour Hoffman play him, posthumously,
in "Almost Famous."
Lester Bangs. I never
understood the veneration some give to this lamebrained late rock critic. His
stuff stunk (http://bit.ly/SwiWig )
Thing about sports
fans: They want refs back on job making tough calls then, depending how they
call them, want 'em strung up by their heels
RT @Matthewahaskell: "Is #BigData supposed to support conversational
marketing?" JK--Yes. It's a complex conversation. It never ends.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Blank Generation by Richard Hell &
The Voidoids from Spurts: Richard Hell Story JK--Still active poet. Grew hair
out
Interesting. Trojan
has put "orgasmic pleasure" into the actual name of one model of their
product. Good idea. Sell the sizzle.
Associated Press poll
gives Obama/Biden lock on 271 electoral votes. Chief challenge for Romney/Ryan
will be keep brave face during debates
Bob Dole says any
regrets being Viagra pitchman put to rest by couple of wives in airport saying
simply "Thank you, Senator."
Steppenwolf "The
Pusher" (http://youtu.be/jMqVrUSz62o )
JK--1968. Brutally direct Hoyt Axton song. John Kay screams "Goddamn the
pusher man"
Tommy James & the
Shondells "Crimson & Clover" (http://youtu.be/GpGEeneO-t0 )
JK--1968. Blissed-out hippified pop with odd studio effects.
Herb Alpert "This
Guy's in Love with You" (http://youtu.be/hkK04szvPf8 )
JK--Just puttin' it into an easy-listening mood, 1968-style.
Notice how vivid
videotape is from 1968. Feels like it's happening now. Tigers locker room when
won AL
My conflicted-dream
World Series is Washington (NL) plays Detroit (AL). Go get 'em Nats! Soc et
tuum Tigers! (http://youtu.be/UFkzh1xQ0gE )
Only notable thing in
"Damsels in Distress" is Aubrey
Plaza
Vampire Weekend
"Oxford Comma" (http://youtu.be/P_i1xk07o4g )
JK--Columbia
Rented & stopped
watching midway thru the stupefyingly boring/talky Ivy-League-y "Damsels
in Distress" by writer/director Whit Stillman.
Stuart & Melody
Moxham 'Take It Back & Make It Alright' (http://youtu.be/FwGLWnKResU )
JK--Recent one, live, small club.
Know-nothings. From
their point of view, anybody with a clue is a know-it-all.
Can't wait to be on
CBSinteractive's TechLines live from NYC this Wednesday. I love any excuse to
do Manhattan
Wuz tellin the missus
that Facebooking random photos from the Internet (but curated thru my impish
impulses) is how I'm getting my "jollies"
Yes, Justin
Timberlake, I too want my sexy back. I've totally given up hope on my front.
Homosociality:
tendency to hire & promote others who look & act like you. Per WSJ.
Excellent new word. Who hasn't experienced this?
"Ordinary-looking
white guys with beautiful Asian women" (http://m.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/familiar-ad-trope-pairing-white-men-and-asian-american-women/2012/09/27/a959bc84-feb1-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html …) JK--Surely they don't hook up in real life.
People who think that
other people are bragging by posting about their lives on socials tend to be
insecure, cynical people.
Sandra Day O'Connor's
story of overcoming gender discrimination in early 50s to start law career is
worth reading. She's strong, determined
Netanyahu & his
cartoon bomb at the UN. Who is he now: Boris Badenov?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Blue Eye Shadow by Arto Lindsay from
Noon Chill JK--Becoming clairvoyant. Thought about Lindsay 10 minutes ago.
Kiplinger says worst
majors 4 your career are those focusing on communication, creativity, critical
thinking, society, & culture. Fuck them
Iron & Wine
"Resurrection Fern" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QyVfs5G2uA …)
JK--2007 from "The Shepherd's Dog." Sam Beam's exquisite hushed-folk
signature sound.
The Fleetwoods
"Mr. Blue" on "Midnight Special" (http://bit.ly/wvRdk9 ) JK--He's older, balder,
& bearded. Where's the sailor outfit?
