Sunday, January 22, 2012

Aweekstweets January 14-22 2012: the week that went fairly well

4m

I rarely turn the TV on for news anymore. That's so last century.

1h

Sin ca ju I!!!!!!!!!

12h

RIP Johnny Otis. "Willie & The Hand Jive," for starters.

15h

Slowly decompressing my head. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

22h

Dentist office waiting room. Routine checkup. Listening to Crowded House "Don't Dream It's Over" on overhead. Lots of mags. None interest me

21 Jan

Parade's "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" stays random: Q: "Are Alicia Silverstone & Liv Tyler half-sisters?" A: Yes but not 2 each other

21 Jan

Colbert: "We must stand for corporations because they have no legs."

21 Jan

Colbert: "The only difference between Mitt Romney & a statue of Mitt Romney is the statue never changes its position."

21 Jan

Colbert: "You gotta thank the bloggers for just coming outside."

21 Jan

Colbert: "I don't need to pander to the most beautiful people in the world."

21 Jan

Colbert: "Whoever said you can't go home again didn't have a friend with a private jet."

21 Jan

Colbert: "I am the Martin Luther KIng of ccorporation civil rights."

21 Jan

"Colbert...turns spotlight on super PACs in South Carolina" (wapo.st/w35jg1) JK--Hilarious. I will quote Colbert in several tweets.

20 Jan

@0_h_r_1 Deck.ly doesn't work anymore, it seems. Check my Facebook for poem that I wrote 10 years ago that sums up my present state of mind

20 Jan

Zero 7 "Destiny" (youtu.be/INn1C6ImJKg) JK--This one puts me into an incredibly deeply mellow place. Always. LIke musical magic.

20 Jan

The Shins "Simple Song" (youtu.be/tvj_a5dwrf4) JK--Listen for yourselves. From the forthcoming new LP. They just stay awesome!

20 Jan

Sam Beam mentions strategically dropping curse words into his lyrics. He has an artist's ear for the texture of a memorable phrase.

20 Jan

Iron And Wine: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (youtu.be/6nT911jkWEo) JK--Sam Beam writes cool songs with funky folky-poetic zest.

20 Jan

Tom Jones' Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music (youtu.be/118zckalkJ0) JK--Tom is even cooler as an old man stripped of showbiz hoo-hah!

20 Jan

I am registering a "like" for every picture of cute kids on Facebook tonight. Just because kids make me smile.

20 Jan

Feelin' awfully mellow tonight. It's not just the wine.

20 Jan

NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert: Nick Lowe (youtu.be/JKhawkQQQmY) JK--Lowe has inhabited his aging person in the coolest way.

20 Jan

Godsmouse (bit.ly/A7PtEk) JK--Simple effect--your cursor casts apparent shadow on earth's surface--but totally addicting.

20 Jan

Lambchop's Kurt Wagner Plays A Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music (youtu.be/IG_uM5th6Fo) JK--Very subtle, soulful guitar, voice, & songs

20 Jan

The Who live late in Keith Moon's life (youtu.be/WT5uAIPFft8) JK--They had the most awesome stadium presence of any rock band.

20 Jan

Jerry Lewis & Buddy Rich drum solos (youtu.be/141o_jwG7cA) JK--Both of these dudes were pieces of work.

20 Jan

Jerry Lewis "Typewriter" (youtu.be/Fxm0TN5WDQI) JK--Yes, he mugs shamelessly for the camera. But always eminently watchable.

20 Jan

Big Star "September Gurls" (youtu.be/BNKSs1J38EA) JK--Essentially, zero airplay in its day. Only became aware of them in past decade

20 Jan

The Monkees "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" (bit.ly/w4PT7A) JK--Their stuff still sounds as fresh as it did when I was a kid.

20 Jan

Life is definitely a journey.

20 Jan

Fairly good week. The air smells like snow.

20 Jan

Seeing a distinct shift in #BigData mania toward #Hadoop + #NoSQL + graph databases.

20 Jan

Fairly good week. Nothing earth-shattering in the news. But some cool NDA stuff for the next few weeks.

20 Jan

@practicingEA Ask what real nice?

20 Jan

I tend to follow people on Twitter who are at least vaguely interesting. I don't follow people who are blatantly moronic. Fine line.

20 Jan

Using a visual #BI tool to do some analysis for a forthcoming #forrester report. I won't say which vendor/tool. That would imply endorsement

20 Jan

Garbage "Stupid Girl" (youtu.be/1HBxUWSxcq8) JK--Unlike Stones song (diff song), this one sung by girl...I mean woman.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Everybody's Under Your Spell by The Duke Spirit from Bruiser JK--Reminds of great Garbage--the band Garbage, that is

20 Jan

I swear, Tom Jones could milk a song for all the suggestive potential the TV censors allowed in the late 60s. Classic!

20 Jan

Tom Jones "Help Yourself " (youtu.be/OvHkWl8HfrI) JK--Welsh singer performing hipswinging hit on his great ABC series from late 60s.

20 Jan

Saying you're #BigData without any of the scalability bonafides is the "check's in the mail" of this new scale-intensive world we live in.

20 Jan

Hey vendors, dont say U're #BigData if PBs, rl-time, and/or polystructrd data not core of yr approach, or if dont scale-out to 100s of nodes

20 Jan

And, yes, I do plan to go to the #Cloudera #Hadoop event this coming fall. Couldn't make it this past fall due purely to work conflicts.

20 Jan

Heard rumors of #Hortonworks and #Yahoo planning to host #Hadoop Summit week of June 11. Was a great show last year. I'll go to this one too

20 Jan

"Microsoft's Bing: Mere 'decision engine' no more" (zd.net/zEZy0F) JK--MSFT positioning it as enabler for doing, not just deciding.

20 Jan

"Amazon Launches #BigData Svc" (bit.ly/w3eP8w) JK--In addition to #Hadoop svc, Elastic MapReduce, which has been live for a few years

20 Jan

Next best action, predictive analytics, customer experience optimization, social graph analysis, cloud/SaaS--the stars are aligning.

20 Jan

RIP Etta James. Among her best-known songs: "At Last" (youtu.be/_1uunRdQ61M).

20 Jan

" #Hadoop Challenges" (bit.ly/wbVdWs) JK--Good high-level discussion by @williammcknight

20 Jan

Nantucket Nectars has printed the most useless piece of trivia inside bottlecap: "Benjamin Franklin's mother was born on Nantucket."

20 Jan

Nah, #bigdata isn't being hyped. The hype won't truly begin until we start spelling it all uppercase with exclamation points: BIG DATA!!!!!!

20 Jan

#FF @nyuhanna @NeilRaden @ocdqblog @onwallstreet @Pspeer @pleclare @howarddresner @rwang0 @rbkarel @jamet123 @johnrrymer

20 Jan

#FF @jaimefitzgerald @JeffShadid @Ravi_Shankar_ @jilldyche @RomanStanek @shawnrog @Claudia_Imhoff @stevepol @silverdata

20 Jan

#ff #businessintelligence #influencers @alyswoodward @BarryDevlin @BeyeNETWORK @BIScorecard @bitterer @Claudia_Imhoff @ColinJWhite

20 Jan

Hmmm...exactly one year to Obama's second inaugural.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rubber Ring by The Smiths from Louder Than Bombs JK--Nobody sez "U're a clever swine" more convincngly than Morrissey

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Odessa by Caribou from Swim JK--2010. Layered production wiggles & shakes like an unstoppable electronica snake.

20 Jan

Interviewed via email by @chriskanaracus re a #BigData vendor announcement due out next week.

20 Jan

WSJ "A Gut Check for Many Ailments" (on.wsj.com/z23xq4) JK--My gut tells me this is absolutely right.

20 Jan

PIPA. No, it's not Kate Middleton's sibling. It's Senate's sister legislation to the House's news-magnet SOPA.

20 Jan

I have heard only one pro-SOPA message. That was on the local radio. I live in the DC area. That spot meant for legislators to hear.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Transmission by Joy Division from Permanent JK--A postpunk classic that I was only barely aware of when it came out.

20 Jan

Amazon has #Hadoop , #NoSQL key-value, & RDBMS. So does Oracle. Expect other database cloud, appliance, & software vendors to follow lead

20 Jan

After two tweets in a row that use the word "ass," I thought I'd made it a triplet and leave it there.

20 Jan

After my first Star Trek related tweet ever, I'm bracing for onslaught of Trekkie-bots to start following my sorry ass.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Museum of Flight by Damien Jurado from Maraqopa JK--May the powers that B grant Damien at least one big-ass radio hit

20 Jan

My highschool English teacher used Star Trek 2 explain reasoning styles. "Scotty induces & Spock deduces." I pointed out that Kirk seduces.

20 Jan

Listening to Snow Patrol "Tiny Little Fractures" from "Final Straw" (youtu.be/duKlBQWA78Q). JK--2003. A great charging dynamic.

20 Jan

I'm always gratified when clients tell me they appreciate my technical depth in published research, inquiries, & consulting. I sweat details

20 Jan

@jamet123 And thank YOU for your comprehensive approach to this topic.

20 Jan

Cool. I was number 16 on list of #forrester "best-read" analysts in 2011. But I don't hold a candle to @rbkarel @bevelson @waband

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Telephone by Charlotte Gainsbourg from Stage Whisper JK--Nicely atmospheric. A frosty winter feeling.

20 Jan

WSJ "The Eternal Teenager in Love" (online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…) JK--Excellent interview with Dion DiMucci.

20 Jan

Newt. Fun fact: He was named for an amphibian because he's even lower on the evolutionary ladder than the reptiles.

20 Jan

Expecting freezing rain tonight. Nothing is as heartwarming as a midwinter frigid bonesoaking & icecoating. Picture postcard winter!

19 Jan

Eastman Kodak's Chptr 11. Very sad corporat casualty of digital age. Products were primary imagers of modernity since l8 1800s. Fading fotos

19 Jan

Perry drops out of GOP race. The 3 or 4 or was it a score of federal agencies that he proposed deepsixing can all breathe easier.

19 Jan

MPAA chief calls SOPA Web blackout a "gimmick." Would he have calld Montgomery Bus Boycott a "gimmick"? Social protests express popular will

19 Jan

#Solariat sys arch: low latency, high throughput and availability, #bigdata , & horizontally scalable w/ clusters, sharding, & replication

19 Jan

Intention is function of someone's awareness + sentiment + propensity + permissions + wherewithal, constrained by object availability

19 Jan

Let's retrofit old songs w/next best action call & response: "How much is that doggie in the window?" "We can give it to U at 25% markdown"

19 Jan

#Solariat has tech for "intention & response" that is suitable for #CRM Next Best Action. They are looking for channel partners.

19 Jan

Taking briefing on #Solariat, startup w/cloud-bsd social listening svc that detects "intention" on social media at scale. @znh also on call

19 Jan

"Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment" (bit.ly/ynI1qJ) JK--Key-value store w/ACID & HA. Separate from their EMR #Hadoop svc

19 Jan

Enjoyed & learned a lot at #CMAdata yesterday in Toronto. Canadian analytics companies are very sharp on marketing campaign optimization.

19 Jan

"McCartney's Cloud-Based Archive Getting Better All the Time" (bit.ly/ynhibo) JK--Where the Beatles assets to go to live & let die.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Annie You Save Me by Graffiti6 from Stone In My Heart JK--Saw them on Leno recently. Excellent tune.

19 Jan

"Microsoft engineers file system for a new era" (bit.ly/zcwNgV) JK--ReFS. Filenames max 32,000 characters. If you must be verbose

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Simple Song by The Shins from Port of Morrow JK--Gr8 new one frm much-awaited new LP. Due in March. I'll get it ASAP!

19 Jan

"Oracle Big Data Appliance Featuring Hadoop Goes Live" (bit.ly/wNWjdI) JK--Released. Didnt "go live." Not a cloud/SaaS offering.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark & Hilldale by Love from Forever Changes JK--Gr8 fractured title!

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Alone Again Or by Calexico from Convict Pool JK--Love cover. Love this cover. Love Love.

19 Jan

Hey @loserboy #kexp "punches outside its weight class" in the world of online radio influencers. You are not mistaken.

19 Jan

Experience optimization. An optimal work experience should include a good laugh or two at regular intervals. Seriousness can prove deadly.

19 Jan

@BestBITools Not kidding. Won't say who. I'm not into the whole "public shaming on social" thing.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Maggot Brain by Funkadelic JK--1971. Year after Jimi passed. Clearly, his spirit very much alive in this.

19 Jan

Ha ha ha. Just saw a consultant ask for developers with 10+ years of #Hadoop experience. Omigosh. Made my day.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Be-in by Dandy Warhols from Dandy Warhols Come Down JK--Smouldering burning bass-y trance song. Dandies do 'em well!

19 Jan

Odd phrase: "I hope this message finds U doing well." Who's doing the finding: "I" or "this message"? If latter, is info sentient life form?

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Grey Cell Green by Ned's Atomic Dustbin from God Fodder JK--Band with delightful nonsense name.

19 Jan

Interviewed by Nicole Laskowski & Mark Brunelli of #TechTarget re my recent #Hadoop case study report.

18 Jan

Presenter says "answer to that is #Hadoop " at #CMAdata. #Hadoop is not a specific answer to anything. It's part of vocab for answers.

18 Jan

RT @MJMcKean: Just hearing about the passing of Tom Ardolino, NRBQ drummer; solid rock'n'roll guy. RIP

18 Jan

Seems to be one topic only today on social media (I'm slightly exaggerating, but not too much): Stop SOPA/PIPA!

18 Jan

James Vogtle of #Accenture discussing continuous "test + learn" multichannel @ #CMAdata. I refer 2 that as "real-world experiments."

18 Jan

"Enterprise #Hadoop :Big data processing made easier" (bit.ly/zpLvHU) JK--Excelent overview of some Hdp vendors. Stay tuned 4 my Wave

18 Jan

Good conversations here at #CMAdata. Multichannel next best offer, customer segmentation, marketing automation, & experience optimization

18 Jan

"Landscape amnesia." Jared Diamond's great phrase for culture not noticing gradual changes to their milieu. Apply to tech environment too.

18 Jan

I recognize that my speech topic, "conversational customer intimacy," has privacy implications. But I won't explore that this morning.

18 Jan

RT @CyG_science: Forgetting Actually Strengthens Memory--A Special Report (bit.ly/w8NaUN) JK--Someone tell my wife this. Mea culpa.

18 Jan

My #Hadoop Wave will publish on Feb 2, I'm told.

18 Jan

My #forrester colleague Rob Brosnan impressed the CMA at an event not long ago. Hope I don't disappoint by comparison. Brosnan's excellent.

18 Jan

The A/V coordinator at the Canadian Mktg Assn show is playing the whole Florence + Machine 2nd LP. I hadnt heard whole thing before. Superb!

18 Jan

Chilling with coffee & conversation here at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics conf at Toronto's convention centre. My speech starts at 9:10

18 Jan

Multichannel conversations should be intimate attuned engaged interactive empathetic adaptive personalized consistent simple easy friendly

18 Jan

Speaking at CMA Analytics Conf on "Guided Conversations: The Key To Customer Intimacy." Yes, I have topics other than #bigdata #hadoop #edw

18 Jan

Speaking this morning at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics Conf, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Bldg, Rm 702, 9am. See you there!

18 Jan

Don't censor the Web. Squash #SOPA & #PIPA once & for all.

18 Jan

Indicator of how devoid Romney is of personality. Didnt realize comercial "celebrity impersonator" doing him. Just sounds like dull anouncer

17 Jan

"On Hadoop 1.0: James Kobielus" (bit.ly/zAX07o) JK--LOL. "Kneedeep in enterprise elephant experiments"? Sounds like I sweep droppings

17 Jan

"Big Companies Try Crowdsourcing" (on.wsj.com/yyw2JW) JK--They're doing more than "try." They're sourcing to "crowd" known as "Asia."

17 Jan

"Apple Cofounder Wozniak Praises Android" (bit.ly/AbpBft) JK--I can feel Jobs rolling over & unquivering a few lightning bolts.

17 Jan

Took a few NDA briefings today. Which explains why I haven't been tweeting about them. Good stuff. Mum's the word for now.

17 Jan

If "The Artist" takes home Oscars this year, I hope the acceptance speeches will be silent placards flashed on-stage for 5 seconds.

17 Jan

@dmenningervr It's "made-up" in sense that it's verb that didnt evolve organiclly from older verb root, but from noun that lacked verb equiv

17 Jan

"Attrit" or "attrite"? My dictionary lists both. Either way, it's made-up word, a back-formation of "attrition." Either way, verb sounds odd

17 Jan

Interviewed by Alex Handy of Software Development Times re #Hadoop 1.0 milestone.

17 Jan

Speaking in Toronto tomorrow at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics conf. Snow predicted. Wish me much luck. Wish I had mucklucks.

17 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Town Called Malice by The Jam JK--Fun fact: Paul Weller hometown. Seat of Maliceshire, England.

17 Jan

Hey @loserboy , "Friends" theme is better to cover than the "Frasier" theme. "Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs" will kill budding music career

17 Jan

Online waiting for #IBM Smart Analytics System & zEnterprise Teleconf #ibmzanalytics to begin.

17 Jan

#TIBCO #Spotfire & me "Webcast: Adv Analytics in #CRM: Key to Cross-Channel Efficiency & Engagement" 2-2-12 Register: bit.ly/wRx8L0

17 Jan

"Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups" (bit.ly/AymIAW) JK--"1) Dont start one unless obsession 2) If exit strategy, it's not obsession"

17 Jan

"Big Data: Mind Your Head in Cloud" (bit.ly/wPTwwh) JK--Cool graphic that shows sheer growing magnitude of different data types.

17 Jan

"Oracle’s Big Data Appliance is based on Cloudera" (bit.ly/xdfnce) JK--That, plus #Oracle hardware & plenty of ORCL software.

17 Jan

"Maker of Steve Jobs Action Figure Kills Project" (bit.ly/AxBQAf) JK--Legal issues & tough 2 show steal-Microsoft-oxygen in action

17 Jan

"When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer JK--Being the outlier/oddball often painful.

17 Jan

@jamet123 has right approach: Treat next best actions as analytcs-infused decisions as ntwk or workflow of linkd decisions steps & processes

17 Jan

"Requirements for Advanced Analytics" (bit.ly/wTOJ5T) JK--Oper8nl decision-net enhance--risk & opportunity--to drive key biz outcomes

17 Jan

"IBM Rattles Moore's Law With Smallest Magnetic Memory Bit" (bit.ly/ztNth1) JK--But that's galactic scale compared to quantum storage

17 Jan

"Microsoft Creating Real-Time Botnet Information Feed" (bit.ly/zry1RN) JK--Botnet threat signature surveillance & impact assessment.

17 Jan

"IBM rolls out new social analytics tools" (zd.net/yvjbrG) JK--IBM Connections 2 gauge employee, partner & customr social sentiment

17 Jan

"Geeks 1, Congress 0: Controversial anti-piracy bill SOPA 'shelved'" (zd.net/x7YUs4) JK--Game not over. Senate has bill. Kill bill!

17 Jan

"A letter of regret to Google Cloud (My)SQL?" (tek.io/As0MoC) JK--Author takes issue with GGL cozying up to #Oracle product.

17 Jan

"Universities Worldwide to Introduce Analytics Education" (bit.ly/yR08Um) JK--Should be in core curriculum of all science majors.

17 Jan

Seattle got bit of snow. I'm 3000 miles east of there. Just want to assure them the "other" Washington is no better at driving in the stuff.

17 Jan

The weekend was pleasant. Technology thoughts only intruded on my serenity when I specifically invited them in.

16 Jan

"Google Mobile Ad Revenue Could Top $4B: Munster" (bit.ly/AyIH8H) JK--Thought he was still employed at Gateman Goodbury & Graves

16 Jan

Penance for tweet sarcastic about Richard Branson? Unsolicited attention of @branson_effect . "Learn strategies of self-made billionaires"

16 Jan

Meryl Streep wins Golden Globe? Oh must we continu 2 indulge ths woman's vanity & stoke conceit that she's one of all-time gr8st moviestars?

16 Jan

My two favorite states of being are thoughtfulness & thoughtlessness. Most of my actual life is lived in between those states.

16 Jan

@Brett2point0 Brett, it's only been 4 months since I did that preso. Be patient.

16 Jan

"House Kills SOPA" (examiner.com/computers-in-d…) JK--Hallelujah! Legislators actually converged on right course of action.

16 Jan

Rightwing daily Washington Examiner. Actual news starts on page 10 with Associated Press wire stories. "News" up front is staff hatchet jobs

16 Jan

Data mining is the opposite of mining in the traditional sense. You are not depleting the resource that you extract. You are enriching it.

16 Jan

Before long, you will be able to carry an entire data warehouse on a gadget. By "long," I mean end of decade. Ever cheaper flash storage.

16 Jan

Expecting analytics and data industry news this week. That's just intuition. Not sitting on any NDAs. MLKJDay marks end of holiday slumbers.

16 Jan

Packing warm clothes for Toronto, tho I'll only be there a short time & will be indoors most of that time. Should also bring huskies & sled

16 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes JK--Song magically combines winter & summer into single cycle of color & fertility

16 Jan

All I can say is that it's fortunate Dr. King didn't call himself a baton twirler for truth and justice.

15 Jan

Maybe I'm a geek, but I love "How It's Made" on Science Channel. I could watch a daylong marathon of episodes without blinking.

15 Jan

Yenta. Wonderful Jewish word for type of woman in every culture. Strangles with over-intentioned, overbearing advice for every occasion.

15 Jan

Richard Branson in late 60s resembld Austin Powers, then morphed into blond Mick Jagger & now looks like David Spade's creepy English cousin

15 Jan

Exploring Ann Arbor, Michigan on Google Earth. Cool 3-D effect on structures around Diag. Far-out, man, & Hash Bash not even in session now!

15 Jan

Exploring Madison, Wisconsin on Google Earth. Dairyland state's good sense 2 put city on isthmus makes most visible state capital from space

15 Jan

Exploring Higgins Lake, Michigan on Google Earth. Go-cart track on which we Boy Scouts competed is clearly visible from geosynchronous orbit

15 Jan

Exploring the Soo Locks on Google Earth. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is much larger than Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It's obvious from space.

15 Jan

Listening to Beatles "She Loves You" & "Sie Liebt Dich" from "Past Masters Vol. 1." Sound almost identical, except 4 language. Coincidence?

15 Jan

I have never understood the term "lo-fi" aplied 2 genres of music. Low fidelity 2 what? To comercial gospel that U must make formulaic crap?

15 Jan

Do firearms reproduce male heirs sexually? Why does it seem that everybody's a son of a gun? How can species survive without daughters?

15 Jan

Snooki. Nickname you'd give to yr pet hamster. Woman seems like understudy to 4th female lead in local dinner theatre production of "Grease"

15 Jan

Tori Spelling. Is there a reason we should care about her? Spell it out.

15 Jan

Fareed Zakaria CNN show gets credit for best pun of the day: "The Bain of Romney's Existence."

15 Jan

VH-1 seems to be morphing into the "Wives" channel. Basketball, Mob, Baseball, etc. Should merge w/History Channel & present Old Wives Tales

15 Jan

"In War, We All Desecrate the Enemy" (washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-…) JK--The horribly twisted human logic that has always sustained wars everywhere.

14 Jan

Madonna "Don't Tell Me" (youtu.be/gLFWRDsx5AI) JK--Dig this cool start-stop rhythm. The beginning has deliberate false start.

14 Jan

Brian Eno "Ambient 1 - Music For Airports" (youtu.be/vLOPaanz0gA) JK--1978. Eno boldly injected structured silence into pop vocab

14 Jan

What's totally radical about Beatles "Flying" is that it's incredibly ambient. Well before its time. Even an outlier in the Fab's catalog.

14 Jan

The Beatles "Flying" (youtu.be/6yTY__PKLDQ) JK--Complete 9:38 version from "Magical Mystery Tour." Their only instrumental. Druggy

14 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Boat Behind by Kings of Convenience from Declaration of Dependence JK--Modern mellow done right!

14 Jan

RT @kalynraphael: "Amp up yr Law of Attraction-Use yr Sexual Energy 2 Charge yr Manifestations" JK--Too complicated. Just use it to get laid

Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks 14 Jan We wish John Edwards a speedy recovery so he can go to prison in good health.

14 Jan

Omigosh. My #ff list would be incomplete without acknowledging today. As long as I can remember, Saturday has always followed Friday.

14 Jan

I love the "discover" feature of the redesigned Twitter browser interface. It helped me find lots of gaps in list of people/orgs to follow.