TECH-AND-TECH-INDUSTRY TWEETS
Anybody who's focusing on what SQL can't do is implying SQL was intended to be the be-all language for info access/manipulation. Get real. about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
JK2—SQL is purely to access and manipulate structured, relational, tabular data sets. But, considering that there is far more unstructured and semi-structured information out there, it’s probably best that we don’t try to force-fit SQL into all of that. Considering the range of access protocols in SOA, Web 2.0, and other services environments, it’s better to treat SQL as just one language to be supported in a broader information virtualization environment.
Starting to think ParAccel's "FasterOrFree" program is pioneer of new pricing model in DW market. Vendors put their money where mouths are. about 3 hours ago TweetDeck
JK2—This is the only sustainable value-based pricing model in the DW market. Vendors will continue to assert 10x and greater performance improvements vis-à-vis the completion, or vis-à-vis their previous versions, or vis-à-vis what customers are doing now. The only way for the poor customer to know if these claims hold water is for the vendor to demonstrate this enhanced performance on the customer’s own queries and data sets. If the vendor can demonstrate an order-of-magnitude improvement, they can justifiable charge customers a premium. If they can’t, the vendor should bear the financial risk for its hype, and give the solution to the customer for free (if they’ll have it). Secondary issue: Whether the vendor should also provide free or discounted maintenance, support, and upgrades, and for how long.
Have a briefing just a few minutes from now with Kognitio, a provider of DW software, appliance, and cloud solutions. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
JK2—These guys are one of several pure-plays with the full range of DW form factors (note: when I said “cloud” in this tweet, I meant public “SaaS,” which Kognitio calls “DaaS”). About half of Kognitio’s revenues come from DaaS customers. Considering that Kognitio has been offering this for several years, I consider them one of the most mature providers of “DW in the cloud.” In other words, they’re just a little ahead of the market—though, of course, Aster, Vertica, and a few others offer public cloud/SaaS-based DW services.
Actionable analytics: let users mine & interactively explore non-obvious patterns, while making most salient points blindingly user-obvious about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
JK2—The core definition of data mining is that it identifies non-obvious patterns in historical data sets. But all of this statistical gold digging can’t serve business if it doesn’t produce a steady stream of nuggets meaningful to business people who don’t have degrees in advanced math.
Taking briefing from ParAccel...significant customers wins, pipeline, deal size growth....excellent momentum 11:15 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
JK2—I like to take refresher briefings from all DW vendors every 3-6 months. With ParAccel, they’ve benefited from the steady growth in the DW space as a whole, but also from their own aggressive pricing, marketing, and sales—plus outstanding progress on scaling their massively parallel DW appliance up and out.
Social network analysis (SNA) not just for social networks in Web 2.0 sense. SNA research shows loneliness contagious (http://bit.ly/6qr2Lx) 8:48 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
JK2—Just curious: Do those online dating services use social network analysis to identify those myriad “dimensions of compatibility”? If so, do they update those models based on actual results, in terms of people hooking up—or not--based on those dimensions? Or that all pure hogwash? Preying on the desperation of lonely people?
"Google turns on real-time search" (http://bit.ly/74UJT2) JK--Be curious to see if/when Google turns it into real-time srch-powered BI SaaS 12:26 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
JK2—Just curious, nothing more. Seeing as how Google has made so little headway in the enterprise market, I doubt they could make much of a go with a BI SaaS service. I do expect Microsoft to integrate Bing technology into their BI stack in the next 2-3 years. Calling Bing a “decision engine,” and giving it a name that begins with “B-I” sort of hints at that direction.
RT @daniel_abadi: "[SSD-to-disk] bang difference is small for seq wklds, & buck diff is big": JK--Now it is. But I'm pointing 10 yrs ahead. 2:54 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Solid state drives offer order-of-magnitude performance, reliability, and power-consumption advantages over traditional storage media. No one seriously doubts that rotating media will disappear over the next decade or so. Cost parity (per TB) will be achieved by the middle of the ‘10s.
RT @daniel_abadi "SSDs... orthogonal to whether SSD will drive DW growth" JK--Disagree. Lo-cost SSDs will deliver superior DW bang4buck 2:29 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—SSDs will become the preferred storage technology in DW appliances by 2015, I predict.
RT @merv @daniel_abadi "data doesn't grow because of HW, but in spite of limitations #PB" JK--Right. As I said, HW economics a gating factor 2:25 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—As the list price of DW appliances approaches $2,000/TB (one-tenth of today’s leading-edge $20,000/TB), the average size of enterprise DWs will grow by a factor of ten: into the 100s of TBs. That will be in the middle of the coming decade. As the list price of DW appliances drops by yet another order of magnitude (to $200/TB), the average size of enterprise DWs will reach the petabyte level. That will be the end of the coming decade.
RT @daniel_abadi "disks will still be used at [petabyte] scale" JK--Yes, but in declining proportion to SSD, which will dominate by 2019 12:49 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—In 10 years, you will be as likely to find a rotating disk on a new DW appliance as you are to find a tape drive on today’s appliances.
RT @CurtMonash "1000x in 10 years is annual doubling. Seems little high to me" JK-Content analytics + cheap SSD will drive annual doubling 11:22 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Think of all the unstructured and semi-structured content streaming in social networks. Think of all the information in your enterprise’s content management systems. Think of all the compliance-relevant data in your e-mail systems. Think of all the audit logs in all of your transactional systems. Think of all the years worth of historical information you will want to persist from all applications. Think of all the streaming event data you will need to aggregate to drive complex event processing applications. Annual doubling? That’ll sound quaint when your tsunami demands annual quadrupling and beyond.
"The Tech Industry's 10 (Not So) Dirty Words" (http://bit.ly/7sC5G3): JK--What? Are they outsourcing tech magazine writing to fratboys? 10:11 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—The only word in the bunch that Beavis and Butt-Head would have snickered at is “dongle.”
"Google Helps Publishers Erect Pay Walls" (http://bit.ly/4KBSUd): JK--In some ideological circles, this blatantly violates "don't do evil." 10:02 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Can someone point to a specific business opportunity that Google refused on the grounds that it would have required them to undertake a joint venture with Lucifer?
RT @CurtMonash: @jameskobielus "If average DW is in low petabytes in 10 years, where do you place it today?" JK--Low terabytes:1-10TB. 9:52 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—More than three-quarters of today’s DWs are in this range, by my rough reckoning.
I visit Bing as much for the new photos on home page as for search capabilties. Google's interface, even with seasonal typeface, bores me. 9:51 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—And, quite frankly, search engines strike me as deadly dull. Albeit indispensable.
"Google Chrome OS is 10 Years From Broad Enterprise Adoption" (http://bit.ly/4B19bR): JK--Excuse me, but that's the equivalent of "never." 9:48 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Without a strong open-source push, it’s not at all clear that Google Chrome can ever gain broad adoption. Linux is there, and it’s done it in a decade or so.
RT @bmichelson "2010: Rise of Event Processing" (http://bit.ly/6LLYO3): JK--Predictive analytics: better u see future, better 2 drive change 9:35 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—I’m a bit jaded about event processing becoming the next big thing. It’s big, all right, and it coming to the BI space in a big way, but it’s not a new thing, and not something that will burst into universal adoption anytime soon. Some analysts have been claiming for several years that “event driven architecture” is the next big thing.
"What IBM's Acq Of Guardium Really Means" (http://bit.ly/5Nta5S): JK--IBM should build InfoSphere event DW platform for DB security events. 9:26 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Event processing can be the next big thing in specific application domains. Event data warehousing, for example, which could provide log aggregation for security, e-discovery, and predictive analytics.
RT @teradatanews @jameskobielus "[DWs] tend to mash [all analytics] into a single [virtualized, distributed pool of data]" 9:16 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—In Q1, I’ll be developing a Forrester report on virtualizing the DW in to the cloud, and evolving it into a complex content warehouse for advanced analytics.
RT @gilbaneboston #gilbane09 "Linguistics vs statistics 2 ends of spectrum of search technologies" JK--Mine the words vs. mind the numbers 8:20 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Social network analysis is all about mining the statistical patterns in people’s behavior. It’s also about mining the substance of the things they say—to each other, to each other, and to no one in particular. What’s on their minds. And how their thoughts surface aspects of a collective social intelligence.
Forrester clients tell me they plan to keep core EDWs no larger than 10TB for foreseeable future. Reason? Expensive storage. 8:17 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Bring down the cost of storage, and the average EDW will grow accordingly. Pent-up demand.
True gating factor in DW growth is storage cost. Universal adoption of cloud storage for staging, archiving, backup will light the fuse. 8:11 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Public cloud storage is where petabytes will enter the enterprise DW picture. Through outsourcing of staging, archiving, and backup to cost-effective, scalable clouds.
RT @CurtMonash (http://bit.ly/7tfwhU): "Framework for DW growth" JK--Moore's Law-like growth call for avg DW in lo-petabytes within 10 years 8:06 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
JK2—Remember that Moore’s Law is just a trending rule of thumb. It’s not actually written into the immutable laws of the universe.
OLAP is all about fast, flexible, multidimensional queries against large, prejoined, structured data sets. Not great cocktail party talk. 9:27 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck
JK2—Social networking isn’t great cocktail party talk either. It’s become so common that it’s now like discussing who’s got the coolest e-mail signature. Best experienced, not discussed.
Yes, @NeilRaden & @TonyBaer, OLAP is sclerotic topic. @bevelson and I define it as "spreadsheet pivot table on steroids." 9:23 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck
JK2—One big difference: Using OLAP won’t get you suspended from Major League Baseball.
SHAMELESS-SELF-PROMOTION TWEETS
"Data Analytics and Cloud Computing: Convergence or Collision?". Greenplum & #Forrester Tues Dec 15 1:30-2:30 PM EST (http://bit.ly/2cPRqv) 34 minutes ago from TweetDeck
Yes, I'm becoming one of the pod people. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
On Tuesday, I do a podcast with @greenplum and #Forrester colleague @frankgillett on DW, analytics, and the cloud. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
RT @jameskobielus: On Tuesday, I do a DM Radio podcast with Sybase on in-database analytics (http://bit.ly/8sMlTa): JK--Also w/ Fuzzy Logix. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
On Tuesday, I do a DM Radio podcast with Sybase on in-database analytics (http://bit.ly/8sMlTa). about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
On Monday, I record podcast with @AsterData & @Dana_Gardner on convergence of transactions and analytics. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
RT @DataInfoCom: Podcast: Instrumenting Your Enterprise For Maximum Predictive Power http://bit.ly/85Ro8U: JK--Le podcaster? C'est moi!!!! 6:11 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck
Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire MySQL appliance audited industry benchmarks, TPC-H, for query performance vis-a-vis Oracle/HP. #analytics 12:52 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire advanced column store in DW appliance; requires one-tenth the disk; runs on MySQL Enterprise DB #analytics 12:49 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire SQL co-processing chip's performance advantages in DW appliance #analytics 12:47 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire SQL co-processing chip's performance advantages in DW appliance #analytics 12:44 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: Best Practice in Data Warehousing = Analytic Appliance-based approach ... like @Kickfire! #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: Data warehouse reality check = scalability / performance, flexibility / agility, and affordability #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus Hardware acceleration becoming one of the key secrets to success in Data Warehousing #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus Ave price of Data Warehouse dropping from $200k / TB a few years ago to around $50k / TB today #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: 75 - 80% of EDW deployments are under 10 TB, but companies need modular scalability #analytics 12:42 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: More companies facing pressure to evolve their Data Warehouse (http://bit.ly/6pj8Ja) NOW #analytics 12:42 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Kickfire webinar, "More Bang for Your DW Budget" #analytics : Presented mine. Rich Nieset presenting. Flattered me. I don't blush, or do I? 12:40 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Getting ready to present Kickfire webinar, "More Bang for Your DW Budget" (http://bit.ly/6pj8Ja) at top of the hour. #analytics 11:46 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Did webinar, "BI Branches Out," today, with @JeffreySchwartz , App Dev Trends. Went well. Great Q&A. Interesting interactive poll feedback. 2:10 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
Preparing for webinar "BI Branches Out," 2pm (est) today, with @JeffreySchwartz , App Dev Trends (http://bit.ly/6votFt ). Lots to discuss! 12:13 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
RT @dougmow: "Nice piece on social networking by @jameskobielus: http://bit.ly/8Osdef" JK--Thanx! Key theme that will inform my 2010 agenda 9:06 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
New Forrester blogpost: "Social Network Analysis: Going to Become Too Ubiquitous for Its Own Good" (http://bit.ly/5SetBh) 3:55 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
"James Kobielus, #Forrester, discusses new BI solutions and capabilities coming to market, Tues Dec 8, 2pm EST" (http://bit.ly/8blAjK) 9:05 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
LIFE-OF-AN-ANALYST TWEETS
@Claudia_Imhoff #BBBT: Analytics doesn't require software. Just analyst doing job: in head, back-of-envelope, on fly, via Twitter. However. 4 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to Claudia_Imhoff
Am I crazy, or does jet travel cause fingernails to grow faster? about 8 hours ago from TweetDeck
All analytics'd out for one day. Doing a solitary Charleston cha-cha--cha, here in my chair somewhere. about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck
Reading WSJ (http://bit.ly/6d0oSv) about Second City's 50th. I'm no actor, but everyday's a bit of improv & always something good for a laff 6:59 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Proofing & correcting typos & awkward/overstuffed constructions in yesterday's blog. I tighten/tweeten/sweeten my stuff obsessively. 8:56 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
RT @heather_lukens: "ADT webcast page says..but it's tomorrow right?: JK--Tomorrow, all right, unless they've perfected time travel. 10:02 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @rwang0 "product mktg pro prove their cred to influencers. Start w the truth!" JK--And don't be offended when we speak truth back to you! 8:22 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
CONTINUING-TO-INDULGE-IN-SOCIAL-MEDIA-ARE-CHANGING-THE-VERY-FABRIC-OF-OUR-POSTMODERN-EXISTENCE-WAIT-A-SEC-WHY-AREN’T THESE IN TECH-TWEET? TWEETS
My suggestion for total privacy on Facebook: Don't use Facebook. 6:10 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck
Very nice, very nice. My Twitter profile streams by in a "lifestream" in my AIM client. May get me to use AIM again...for other than IM 5:36 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
"TIBCO Unveils tibbr" (http://bit.ly/93hSYx): JK--Topic-oriented pub-sub incorporating a Twitter-like followme/followyou model. GA early '10 7:41 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Being asked to respond to online satisfaction surveys automatically reduces my satisifaction. Heisenberg's Principle? Hawthorne Effect? 9:57 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
"TwitterPeek: The Single-Purpose Tweeting Device" (http://bit.ly/7gn8RO): JK--Would be fine if I only tweeted. 9:54 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
Just testing this Twitter photo capabilty in TweetDeck. Some old hippie photo I had lying around (http://tweetphoto.com/6004077) 8:30 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @stoweboyd: "good morning edglings!" JK--And a good morning to all you earthlings. Resistance is futile. We control your transmission. 8:25 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
Problem with computers in our lives is that they tend to mash everything--work and life--into a single cluttered field of experience. 7:49 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
MUSIC TWEETS
Listening to Rilo Kiley, "Silver Lining," from "Under the Blacklight." Doing a duet with Jenny Lewis. about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck
Listening to The Seekers, "I'll Never Find Another You," from Time-Life's "Treasury of Folk" collection. Harmonizing silently with that lady about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck
Listening to cryptic and apparently forlorn but quietly gorgeous "Re: Stacks" by Bon Iver from "For Emma, Forever Ago." Wintering 4:51 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Animal Party by King Khan & BBQ Show #KEXP: JK--One of those great new revivalist rock-n-roll bands: vintage 60s garage 7:18 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Svefn-G-Englar by Sigur Rós #KEXP: JK--Arctic Icelandic chiller from 2000 remains one of this decade's musical landmarks. 9:40 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Bamboo Banger by MIA #KEXP: JK--Good. Maya Arulpragasam credits Jonathan Richman. Opening lyrics quote his "Roadrunner" 9:01 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist #KEXP Sadagora Hot Dub by Amsterdam Klezmer Band: JK--Reminds of Liechtensteiner Polka. Dad had that on vinyl. We're Polish 8:52 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Dirt in the Ground (live) by Tom Waits #KEXP: JK--Tom's best "voice from the crypt." Always seems that he invites mockery 11:31 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland by Grandaddy #KEXP: "Digital snow, frozen pianos, electronic bands, frostbitten hands" 11:19 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
Speaking of The Dutchess and The Duke, also check out Arthur & Yu, a Seattle man-woman duo with similar feel. Cinematic but somehow intimate 6:52 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Sunrise / Sunset by The Dutchess & The Duke #KEXP: JK--This group has an Ennio Morricone-like vibe, with male/female duets 6:51 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Ludlow St. by Julian Casablancas #KEXP: JK--Great one. I like this guy's solo stuff better than his Strokes recordings. 2:49 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: You Are My Joy by The Reindeer Section #KEXP: JK--Not an Xmas song. Just a joyful ode from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol. 1:16 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
Listening to k.d. lang's "The Mind of Love" from the very slinky, languid, lounge-y, French-y and aptly named "Ingenue" LP. Early 90s. 10:58 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: Lucinda-Ain't Goin Down (live) by Tom Waits #KEXP: JK--Today's Tom's 60th. Bless his gnarly heart! 9:09 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @TonyBaer: @NeilRaden "Mingus...ironic how he was later silenced by crippling disease." JK--Same's been said about Iron Man Gehrig. 8:57 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @AlanMorrison "Has Sting mellowed? haven't we all?" JK--Dylan hasn't: same stubborn cuss as always: now an age-appropriate curmudgeon 8:37 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @morefromalan "Billy joel is a pretty easy target." JK--I like some of his, but his songwriting tends toward labored crowd pleasers. 7:46 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @TonyBaer "He was a kid from Hicksville (nr Levittown), Springsteen was from Jersey." JK--Didn't claim Bruce an Islander. 7:42 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @kexpplaylist: To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) by Dave Rawlings Machine #KEXP: JK--Great C&W version. Co-wrote with Ryan Adams 7:41 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
RT @NeilRaden "Elton & Boss have slipped into cheeseball realm" JK--Still love their recent work: Elton's filmsongs, Bruce's Seeger sessions 7:40 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
I know I may gore some sacred oxen here, but Billy Joel is pure cheeseball, IMHO. Tries to be one part Elton John, one part Springsteen. 9:30 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck
TV TWEETS
See that PSA where teenager texting while driving? His mobile predicts likelihood of surviving imminent crash? Predictive analytics. Classic about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
RT @NPRbackstory: (diane sawyer) For Stephanopoulos, It's Officially 'Good Morning': JK--Hmmm. Whose face is easier on the eyes? Hmmmm about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
Graphic blandishment: animation on "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Magic process for transforming sorry saplings into Xmas tree spectaculars? 8:33 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
"Smothers Bros: Dangerously Funny Pair" (http://bit.ly/6stB0D): JK--Great podcast: Check out awesome clip of DSteinberg censored sermonette! 9:00 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
RT @markmadsen: @NeilRaden "AT&T take millions spent on Luke Wilson ads & BUY FEW MORE TOWERS" JK--Disagree. Wilson's career more important 11:15 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
TIME-MARCHES-INEXORABLY-ON TWEETS
2009: a year when global economy began painful long-term resurrection from late-2008 freak-out and worried about possibility of relapse 12:22 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
2009: a year when appliances deepened footprint in analytics & Oracle staked future on appliance-bsd (ie, Sun inside) "vertical integration" 12:21 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
2009: a year when analytics continued to branch out and mature in myriad directions: self-svc, predictive, content, real-time, cloud, etc. 12:17 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
GRATUITOUSLY-SENSUAL TWEETS
Sonya opened up the cookies, and I thank her for that. Had a mid-afternoon sugar jones...now satiated...for now 2:03 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
In my book, a wintry mix is any imbibulatory concoction that warms the soul--and melts your cold cold heart. 8:14 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Can rejoice in this rich, full, calm near-winter air. Can ponder what mix of cold, clarity, humidity, & ionization produces it. Or do both. 12:09 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
HOLIDAY-MOOD TWEETS
"Black Friday Results Bode Well..." (http://bit.ly/7JQss2): JK--Bizarre phrase. Color's absence augurs season of commercial light? Change it 9:42 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
"Do You Have a Coupon for That?" (http://bit.ly/7SZenL): JK--Coupon culture takes the joy and spontaneity out of shopping. Ban 'em 9:37 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
GRATUITOUS-ERUDITION TWEETS
Love quasi-oxymoronic phrase: "exception that proves the rule." Obviously, exceptions DISPROVE rules. But "prove" has older sense of "test" 8:54 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
ARMCHAIR-PHILOSOPHER TWEETS
When someone labels self a "guru," I push back and head in opposite direction. Don't need prophet who stands to profit from leading me along 10:47 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Half the time I think all human stress is due to trying to walk upright while trying to balance an overstuffed mind up top., 7:58 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
"Progress Software Underpins CERN’s Search for “God Particle”" (http://bit.ly/7UP1nR): JK--Heresy! Everybody knows the deity's a wave. 7:28 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
Learning how to sit in, and sink into, a chair is half the battle of sedentary life. Can be still but also poised for action. Max relaxation 9:08 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
ARTSY TWEETS
Just watching Quentin Tarantino talk tires me out. Hyper-excitable, strong element of crazy. Passionate. Saw him on Leno last night. 6:09 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck
Revelation! Absolutely love Currier & Ives' contemporary lithographs of mid-19th century America. Peace & commerce. Not a hint of Civil War 10:26 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
RT @markmadsen: "he doesn't seem to be doing as well" JK--Yep: Luke's a lukewarm alternative to Owen, who's second-best to Ben Stiller 4:52 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
STRAY PERSONAL TWEETS
Good friends know they can count on Jimmy for a quick mojo infusion. Sometimes it's a 2-way intravenous proposition. 'SWotFriendsR4! 12:03 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
Inscription: "Halloween. NAIM. 10/70." NAIM was Catholic Widows & Widowers social group. Detroit. http://tweetphoto.com/6004077 11:47 AM Dec 7th from TweetPhoto
BTW, you'd be excused for thinking this me behind the shades and fake'stache. Guess who I resemble. http://tweetphoto.com/6004077 11:45 AM Dec 7th from TweetPhoto
Jan Coburn and Bill Kobielus, 1970. Party outfits. Dad was 46 then, a year after Mom passed away. http://tweetphoto.com/6004077 11:43 AM Dec 7th from TweetPhoto
STRAY POLITICAL TWEETS
So Obama accepted Nobel Peace Prize, discussed war he's escalating, used "just war" rationale. Hinted at war as alternative to unjust peace. 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck
"Will US Supreme Court overhaul Sarbanes-Oxley?" (http://bit.ly/8RHHJU): JK--"SarbOx": already feels like response to '00s trivia quiz. about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
Cloud manifesto. SOA manifesto. Communist manifesto. Enough manifestos already. Kaczynski had manifesto. Not a credit to my people, BTW. 8:55 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck
Karl Rove in WSJ says Obama can win in Afghanistan. Let me get this straight, someone in Republican camp wants this president to succeed? 10:30 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
"Painful Social Media Foray for Seattle Journalists" (http://bit.ly/65rUAe): JK--Twtr r-t p2p CEP? BTW, is Clemmons Huckabee's Horton? 10:21 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
STRAY SCIENCE TWEETS
WSJ article on permafrost melt in Fairbanks--city of 100,000--causing buildings to sink. Surprised subarctic can support city that large. 8:16 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
At what point does ALS' aka transition to "Stephen Hawking's Disease"? 9:33 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck
RT @computerworld: "A solar storm in 2013 could trigger a giant power outage -- or not. http://bit.ly/4NDhwg" JK--Apocalypse now!--or not. 8:23 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck
FLIPPING-OUT TWEETS
Flipped! Flipping out! Those who recall Flipper the TV show, the pinball game, and hardcore punk band will know what I'm talking about. Not about 22 hours ago from TweetDeck
Discussed the complex calculations behind a true man's strategic decision to drop the f-bomb to avoid long drawn out battle in war of words about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck
Worked the word "synoptics" organically into the conversation today. about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck
RT @jowyang @queenrania impressive leader...Excellent, inspiring, touching: JK--BTW check out funny Jordan entry in Onion's "Our Dumb World" 6:17 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck
Would be ironic if we discovered Pluto has a core of solid plutonium. 4:54 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck
