@bradkernus Thanks. Easy. Just try to continually express the 360-degree you-ness of you.
@kimstanick R-dee-R-dee-R!!!!!
RT @merv: RT @jameskobielus: I plan to go deeper on R this year. > so maybe "Aarrrrr..."? The pirated version. JK--LO-f-ing-LLLLL!
@merv I plan to go deeper on R this year.
@kimstanick Really? But how will you keep up with Farmville and how much manure is piling up in your virtual friends' pathetic lots in life?
@merv I'm interested in seeing what Dr. Goodnight et al say about challenge from open-source R at Steamboat Springs thing. Missus & I going!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Hawaii Five-O by The Ventures from The Best of the Ventures JK--I've been waiting years to say this: BOOK 'EM DANNO!
"Oracle tucks R stats language into database" (bit.ly/Ar92XR) JK--Top story of week in analytics. Opn-src R reshaping the industry
RT @jasonkobielus: "On set in Sherman Oaks!" JK--Tell Daniel he's one of the 4 best Baldwin brothers making a living acting.
Error. The word itself feels like an error. If verb is "to err," isnt "error" the person who does the erring? Or is this issue a red erring?
Phil Collins freaks me out when he sings about some nameless dread "coming in the air tonight." Deal with it Phil. He who smelt it dealt it.
It's fun to see spoiler Santorum come on strong, weaken Romney further, & thereby cement Obama's already sure hold on re-election. Go Rick!
Most Catholics favor contraception. It's primarily the ostensibly celibate clergy who oppose.
What is it with Rose Hill lawns? Adjacent lots alternate between sickly puke-green and glowing hay-gold.
Flamingos are native to Rose Hill, Virginia. Day-glo red ones with extremely long legs who swoop down on bemused Franconian passers-by.
@DJCherylWaters said it right to his face: "James you are the king of beautiful pop." You could almost hear him blush.
RT @jhammond: enough for the week... time for a drink. Now - Dunkel or single-malt? JK--Single malt. Keep it simple, then complicate!
Reporters please note: you don't interrupt James Kobielus listening to brand-new Shins. You just don't. Protocol, folks!
Took a very brief reporter call. Now back to my work--and to listen to James Mercer do new song "September" on #KEXP. Excellent!
Took a very brief reporter call. Now back to my work--and to listen to James Mercer do new song "September" on #KEXP. Excellent!
James Mercer from Shins is live on #KEXP right now w/ @DJCherylWaters. He's doing "Australia" solo on acoustic guitar. Perfect Friday closer
@tomstandage You won't regret it. I first heard Cocteaus' initial EP in early 80s. BBK was 1st full-length I heard from them. Blew me away
"Cars That Tweet, Buy Tickets" (on.wsj.com/ycYOg5) JK--As Baby Boomers age, we trade backseat pests (kids) for dashboard distractions
"Google Building Home-entertainment System" (bit.ly/z8o9yt) JK--Sign of overreaching tech vendor? Delve into car & home accessories
"Is Kodak Smartly Exiting Dying Business?" (bit.ly/wrDiAw) JK--It's as if Ford stopped making cars & will focus on rear-view mirrors
RT @tomstandage "If I like Heaven or Las Vegas and Four Calendar Cafe, which other Cocteau Twins albums will I like?" JK--"Blue Bell Knoll"
Catch me Tues & Wed in Vegas at #TDWI. Tweet whatever crazy stuff I say. Don't worry. None of that needs to stay in Vegas.
RT @BryantAvey: Mental Floss What's the Strangest Place You've Been on a Date? (ht.ly/1hidCi) JK--Keep responses PG-rated.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Everything in Its Right Place by Radiohead from Kid A JK--This song feels like Thom Yorke's pure strange id laid bare
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Immaculate by Shearwater from Animal Joy JK--Band consistently hits amazing balance btwn operatic emotion & rocknroll
Took a comprehensive messaging-related briefing update from #SAS. Me & @nyuhanna
I've mentioned diseases in two consecutive #KEXP tweets. Hope this trend doesn't catch on. Could be contagious. Go viral (oops).
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Mr. Orange by Dengue Fever JK--Such a great exotic-sounding group you forget they're named 4 an exotic dread disease
@timoelliott #NoSoftware At least they didn't call it F***SQL. It's more mktg-friendly than that. But still a bit negative with "No" in name
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Love Plus One by Haircut One Hundred from Pelican West JK--Song & LP got me thru nasty flu in '82 in Madison WI
If you think me a pollyanna overlooking #Hadoop flaws, U should tune into upcoming #Zettaset webinar on hardening Hdp for robust enterprise
I can't imagine a less marketing-friendly database category label than #NoSQL . "Hey biz customers, your traditional databases are obsolete"
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Girl Like You by Edwyn Collins from Gorgeous George JK--Song I dug when started listening 2 radio again in 1994.
"Are Yr Social Media Policies Turning Off Your Millennials?" (bit.ly/xMbOQw) JK--And have they turned off your millennials-at-heart?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band from A World Without Gravity JK--Speaking of depressing. Great beat though!
"Can a smartphone sense depression?" (cnet.co/xV3kgn) JK--Can yr life get so depressing that f****ing phone is only one 2 detect it?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp North American Scum by LCD Soundsystem from Sound of Silver JK--Europe mime-intensive? No. Most are quite verbal.
"RIP: the social media influencer" (bit.ly/A2Zmob) JK--Nah, it's more like RIP: your out-of-proportion infatuation w/this new medium
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Photocopier by Fujiya & Miyagi from Transparent Things JK--"You're off your bleeding rocker."
Point 2 #Forrester deepening #NoSQL covrage: my #Hadoop docs, @nyuhanna bit.ly/x29uya , @bevelson key-value DBMS bit.ly/mSfyAB
"..Washington & more major cities where no one wants 2 move" (on.msnbc.com/zpjmPv) JK--Check yr facts. DC population influx is strong
Johann Augustin Kobelius (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Au…) JK--I suspect I'm distantly related to this Prussian composer, but it's just suspicion.
Another day of honing the craft of systematic casualness.
Devine & Statton "Enough is Enough" (youtube.com/watch?v=tMW4My…) JK--Collab that showed how Alison's Vox had matured
Young Marble Giants "Brand New Life" (youtube.com/watch?v=uvx-1t…) JK--Video has close-up darkness shrouding that reminds of album cover
Istebna, Poland (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istebna). Kobielusz ancestral hometown. Lists athlete Krezelok. Same as my grandpa biz partner
Univision. Mirando "Una Familia De Suerte." Suerte como otros en Univision porque ellos son muy bien aparecidos. Pero programas son crapola
I closed out the Q&A on today's #Hadoop webnar by citing prevalence of hybrid deploys: Hdp #NoSQL EDW RDBMS CEP datavrt'zn etc. All #BigData
Will be doing a #Hadoop webinar with #Zettaset later this month. Drawing from best practices report. Hardened Hdp clusters for robust entprz
#Forrester customers should note that Wave is 5th of 5 straight #Hadoop reports I published. Read all 5 as a unified library please.
10 yrs ago when I 1st startd listning 2 #KEXP , I droppd by studio 2 yrs l8r & discovrd freaky resonance:hotel we honeymnd @ was 1 blok over
10 yrs ago when I 1st startd listning 2 #KEXP , I started meeting DJs when I passed thru Seattle. 7 so far. All very nice people.
10 yrs ago when I 1st startd listning 2 #KEXP , I spent 1st few years pestering the DJs with song requests til realized best 2 let them pick
10 yrs ago when I 1st startd listning 2 #KEXP , I had been thoroughly sick of radio for pretty much my entire adult life.
10 yrs ago when I 1st startd listning 2 #KEXP , I was 43, had recently got broadband, was reeling from 9/11, & was in mid-Burton Group years
10 years ago when I 1st startd listning, #KEXP had recently changed from KCMU, gone 2 Web, moved 2 Dexter-Denny site, & got Paul Allen grant
10 years ago when I 1st started listening, #KEXP principal variety mix DJs were John Richards, Cheryl Waters, & Stevie Zoom. All still there
"FBI unbolts Steve Jobs 1991 investigation file" (bit.ly/yi6lLU) JK--Dull dossier. Juiciest detail: 2.65 GPA in highschool.
"Google to pay users to track their movements online" (bit.ly/xYWO1X) JK--Digital equivalent of selling your blood to bloodbank.
Is a rich person in South America's largest country known as a "Brazilianaire"?
Hard to believe Eric Idle thought nobody would latch onto silly rockband name he coined: "Toad the Wet Sprocket." "Mott the Hoople"?
The only son of secondborn Kobielus brother has bit part in a film starring the secondborn Baldwin bro. Hey @alecbaldwin li'l bro watch out!
I can tell from some Twitter feedback that people weren't truly listening when I said don't read too much into #Hadoop Wave vendor ranking
I extended the #Hadoop Wave webinar by 15 minutes to accommodate the amount of detail in my preso & the need to do Q&A
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp She Loves You by The Beatles JK--I was kindergartener in PJs watching Fab Four do this on Sullivan 48 years ago today
Prepping to present my #Hadoop Wave findings at 1pm (eastern). By "prepping" I mean doing other stuff.
@loserboy All of which shows how goddamn old I'm getting. Can I say "goddamn" on the air? Oh, this isn't the air. Never fucking mind.
@loserboy I recall Kasey Chambers, Norah Jones, Sneaker Pimps, Balllboy, Goldfrapp, Belle & Sebastian, Damien Jurado, Franti & Spearhead
Today is the 10th anniversary of the first time I listened to #KEXP. How did I discover them? Simply tuned to the left end of the Internet
RT @kexpplaylist #KEXP In The Morning by Junior Boys from In The Morning / The Equalizer JK--Still my fave from the Ontario chill-dance duo
Took briefing from #SAP #Sybase & #KXEN on a next best action capability that leverages IQ, predictive analytics, & CEP
#Versant repositioning self as analytical platform with supports flexible graph analysis w/ACID transactionality against "big complex data"
Taking briefing from #Versant on their #NoSQL roadmap
"The Cloud's Quantum Future" (bit.ly/yf7x5O) JK--Wave or particle? I'm with #Forrester , so I favor Wave. Can it be both?
#MetaScale not exclusive to SHMC companies. And it's targeting all industries, not just retail.
#MetaScale implements #Cloudera in their hosted #Hadoop svc, and will also implement #Hortonworks #Apache Hdp distro.
#MetaScale been doing hosted #Hadoop for a few years, for almost all of the subsidiaries of SHMC, including Sears & KMart.
#MetaScale targeting #Hadoop users who have "outgrown Amazon" in the cloud/SaaS.
#MetaScale does prof svcs on #Hadoop & #EDW appliances. Builds out hybrid hosted & on-premises. But primarily cloud/SaaS biz/rev model.
Taking briefing from #Hadoop SaaS/hosting & prof svcs startup MetaScale. MapReduce & R. Subsidiary of Sears Holdings Mgt Corp.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexpThe Glorious Land by PJ Harvey from Let England Shake JK--Song so sharp my hair stands on end. "Oh America Oh England"
Another day, another stab at wrestling an overly broad customer inquiry down to some semblance of specificity so I can deliver non-trivia.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Simple Song by The Shins from Port of Morrow JK--I am so totally primed & excited waiting for this new LP next month
Recently, I sent my bro a FB happy b-day greeting, a hardcopy card, & called him on his special day. IMHO, e-cards are viral in bad sense
Are those Facebook "wish so&so a happy birthday" reminders displacing hardcopy & e-cards in fabric of social "blow out candles" sentiment?
Every last scrap of what I've learned in my IT career comes in handy in consulting engagements. Today was one such example. I worked it!
Listening to Fatboy Slim "The Rockafeller Skank" from "You've Come a Long Way Baby." Stop nagging the funk soul brother. He'll check it out!
Tweeting from 30,000 feet. The novelty has worn off. I don't think any more holistically this close to stratosphere than I do on terra firma
If the devil's in the details, are the angels in generalities? Is airy, vague, & vacuous next to godliness? If so, I'm going back to academe
Heard Amy Winehouse "Rehab" on my rental car radio. First time I'd heard it since she died. Felt new again.
Kansas City. I briefly drove by 12th Street & Vine. Just cuz been hearing Wilbert Harrison sing about it for so many years. "Oh, it's this"
The memory I take home of Kansas City are solid dark-brown-brick houses near downtown that seem to date from the turn of the 20th century
"Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch" (bit.ly/zpS0n5) JK--ORCL has deepest R in-db analytics story in industry
How is customer "mood" different from customer "sentiment." We discussed this today. IMHO, "sentiment" attaches to subject, "mood" to milieu
Good day of consulting has wrapped up & I'm waiting for the flight home. Customer asked for advice on tuning customer experience w/analytics
Kansas City still dark. Sunrise coming. Scanning the logos on the skyline for something familiar.
RT @TelegraphTech: Teenagers 'prefer #socialmedia to TV' (tgr.ph/zWWjHA) JK--Increasingly, so does this 50-something.
Listening to The Who "Pinball Wizard" from "Tommy." Have vivid memory of my bro Tommy playing vinyl fresh in '69. Pete's wicked power chord!
Listening to Terry Gross' engrossing NPR interview with Meryl Streep. The actress dissects how she embodies a character thru the voice.
Komen Foundation seems to be racing for a PR cure.
Listening to Dodos "So Cold" on #KEXP Song of the Day Podcast. Group always plays a wicked sticks.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Smells Like Happiness by Hidden Cameras frm Smell of Our Own JK--Greatest locomotiv rhythm since "Psychotic Reaction"
"What'd you do in the #Hadoop wars, daddy?" "I armed all combatants with research, dear child." BTW, my kids are adults.
And there you. Responded to all points worth responding to in Henschen's article.
"Hadoop Players Question Forrester Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--Try not 2 buy into any 1 vdr's "our own biz model"-ctrc take on mkt
"Hdp Players Question Forr Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--Inclusion of "services-heavy vdrs" due 2 Hdp being largely svcs-oriented mkt
"Hdp Players Question Forrester Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--"So&so doesnt have distro" assumes Hdp sol provdr must have own distro
"Hadoop Players Question Forrester Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--3rd "surprise" also due 2 fact #Teradata #AsterData not opn-src Hdp
"Hadoop Players Question Forrester's Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--3rd "surprise" due 2 fact MSFT/ORCL not in Hdp mkt when Wave done
"Hadoop Players Question Forrester's Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--2nd "surprise" reflects fact AWS, IBM, EMC have #BigData overall
"Hadoop Players Question Forrester's Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--First "surprise" reflects fact this market extremely diverse.
"Hadoop Players Question Forrester's Take On Leaders" (bit.ly/zaUcZD) JK--Only "player" questioning is vdr sore it rankd below rival
Hal Varian, Google chief economist, has invested in #Kaggle. Somehow, I expect Google itself to latch onto or at least leverage Kaggle
"Google Unveils 'Secret Lab' For Radical Ideas" (bit.ly/AzptUP) JK--Exclusive & exploratory. That's not same as secret or radical.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Following Dub by Phenomenal Handclap Band from Fully Bearded JK--Great new song you'll wanna call "In This Room"
#Kaggle has an extraordinarily powerful and promising business model to stimulate the growth of data science as a global discipline/resource
Taking briefing from #Kaggle re their online mktplace 4 solving predictive modeling problems via crowdsourcing. 28,000 reg data scientists
@rqtaylor That's what analysts are here for. To remind you that everything you ever thought you knew is flat out WRONG!
The number one issue facing #Hadoop market is standardization. For starters, do you put the stress on the "had" or the "oop"? I favor latter
"Google Pulls 'Atlantis' frm GGL Earth" (bit.ly/xUzmM2) JK--Donovan claims copyrite on lost continents (youtu.be/RPFJBepQJ5A)
"Vendor View on #Big Data & Analytics: IBM" (bit.ly/ywlXDd) JK--@fhalper provides good capsule overview of core IBM offerings
Most important year in Internet history was 1995. Why? That's year the URL became implanted in world culture as bedrock addressing scheme
"40 Fast Facts on Twitter" (bit.ly/xysNHT) JK--Crammed into 140 characters? How's that for fast? No, I'm not that good.
"SAP to Arm SMEs With Real-Time Analytics Powered by HANA" (bit.ly/xVnH1u) JK--Steadily filling out their HANA solution portfolio
Python: "How was Dublin?" "As I wuz tellin mummy things looks pretty bad down there but I do see some hope of a constitutional settlement."
Marketeers, please don't describe your product as "gold standard." Gold's no standard anymore. Digital currency is. Shiny stuff is jewelry
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Old L.A. by Yim Yames, Jay Farrar, Will Johns from New Multitudes JK--Collab of Jim James, Yay Yarrar, & Yill Yohns
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Working Titles by Damien Jurado from Maraqopa JK--Artist should expand @loserboy theme into power ballad w/cowbell
Indonesia economy grew at fast clip last year, buoyed by strong domestic market & political stability. I enjoyed vacation there last summer
But I certainly do advise vendors when their marketing is inadequate.
One thing I don't do in Waves is skew my evaluations to the vendors with the best marketing. I actually do research into facts.
Wilbert Harrison "Kansas City" (youtu.be/VMYhMLEx9kc) JK--Heading there on biz. Not gonna take the train. Definitely take the plane
I'm toggling between 4 computers this morning. Tablet on breakfast table, laptops on sofa & desk, desktop on desk. Each has special purpose
So there you go. Taking #Hadoop as a stand-alone category would have been foolish.
That explains why, for example, why I put "EDW/connector" as a criterion unto itself. #Hadoop is simply piece of larger #bigdata ecosystem
Organizing thesis for #Hadoop Wave is that diversified #BigData vendors, who also have #EDW, will dominate space. Startups'll be acquired
Chances are, the next #Hadoop Wave, a full Wave, will have fewer vendors, more criteria, and focus on clear leaders as they emerge.
In an emerging markets, the apples lie down with the oranges and make a delicious fruit punch.
#forrester didn't label it as such, but the #Hadoop Wave is an "emerging markets" Wave for immature mkt w/out clear leaders or segmentation
Mornings are my interruption-free zone.
M.I.A. apologized for giving middle finger at Super Bowl? She should have apologized for such a lame protest.
#BigData didn't come up once today in work conversation. Not even once. You believe me? You following my tweetstream?
"Gisele's Super Bowl Potty Mouth" (bit.ly/ydUQcp) JK--Totally shocking! She used the f-word! Nobody I know has ever used it!
"Information Builders Launches WebFOCUS Hyperstage" (yhoo.it/zdtlXw) JK--Embedded columnar database inside #BI offering
@jclarey Especially in IT, where the hype bloat is pervasive on every level, and never lets up.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Once In a Lifetime by Talking Heads from Sand in the Vaseline JK--Water at bottom of ocean is oxygen-poor.
"Tech's original Great Satan calls out Google 4 being evil" (bit.ly/AcFtuX) JK--Do IT journos compete on who has dumbest headlines?
Please ignore any journalistic attempts to portray my #Hadoop Wave as "vendor A vs. vendor B." I assessed all against mkt maturity model.
"Facebook Could Buy Netflix, Mobile Assets, Leverage Big Data" (bit.ly/zzippn) JK--Yeah they can do all kindsa stuff w/IPO $. Rumors?
Another week, another struggle 2 wrestle grandiose steroid-bloated IT abstractions to the mat & pin 'em down while I ghoulishly dissect them
Fairly good weekend. Read deeply into gr8 book on historical development of human languages. I'm an absolute linguistics geek.
"DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses" (bit.ly/AvwB2o) JK--Betcha Hollywood'll put these in Tom Cruise's eyes in next flick
"Do iPads Belong At Sporting Events?" (bit.ly/wXShs3) JK--Yes, but they're a poor substitute for shoulder pads.
"Semantic Technology Key To Mastering Data Growth, Analysis" (bit.ly/A5SrDt) JK--I see more of it in #BigData than in traditional #BI
I dont love data any more than I love motor oil that keeps my car running smooth. I do love speed-to-insight. And arriving at outcome safely
"Researchers Develop Computer Modelling to Read Words in People's Thoughts" (bit.ly/zymNYu) JK--Awesome. Privacy zealots: cool it!
In many ways, doing an emerging-markets Wave like the #Hadoop is apples-to-oranges comparison. Many juicy fruits of all varieties to taste
You'll notice this Thursday that I arrange my #Hadoop vendor-by-vendor SWOTs alphabetically. Consider every vendor on own merits.
Don't overemphasize sorting of #Hadoop vdrs in Wave into "leaders" vs other categs. Immature mkt in rapid flux. Tune into my tconf on Thurs
"10 warning signs your IT landscape needs change" (tek.io/wYjdwd) JK--Forgetting passwords on security infra shows you're losing it
"10 threats to ..Internet" (tek.io/xmEBu2) JK--Regs, censrs, tax, bdwth caps, acc chgs, Inet $, sbscr, no free, cpyrght, prvcy abuse
"What exactly is Jeff Bezos thinking?" (linkd.in/zmufyb) JK--Yeah, what? Hasn't anybody planted listening devices in Jeff's skull?
Let's see. Which undiscovered microniches in human knowledge can I become the world's foremost authority on this week?
The "International Association of Successful Individuals" & the "National Assoc'n of Successful Women" emailed me. Merge 4 cryin out loud!
New-age copyeditors must go thru sensitivity training. They need to become more case-sensitive.
Steve Miller Band "Mercury Blues" (youtu.be/ZJJvyPXPssg) JK--Wanna thank Stuart Moxham 4 reminding of this great long-forgotten track
Those "Top 10 tips for professionals" articles are getting moronic. "What not to include on expense reports?" Lottery tickets. Duh!
"Why Gisele diminishes Tom Brady’s likablility" (bit.ly/wUoI9u) JK--Guy already has too many trophies. Trophy wife superfluous
@susanbeebe #superbowl Like me, Madonna was 8 and in the 3rd grade when Super Bowl I was played.
I lied about watching the rest of the game. I'll catch the result in news later. My primary interest is the music midway through.
"IT Has 26 Words 4 Data Mining" (bit.ly/AkNNbU) JK--Not all synonyms. Many refer 2 specific functions & apps under that broad heading
Bostonians pronounce "Marlborough" how? "Mal-bro"?
Spending this quiet time to plow through all the social media email follow-me requests I've shunted to folder. Half legit. Few pornographic
Listening to DJ Quilty 3000 on #kexp. John Doe of X once mis-heard her handle as "Cruelty 3000." Which is a wonderful dominatrix moniker
We're draining a bottle of Pinot Noir tonight. Already finished our Starbucks ice cream. Going to make a run for the Godiva chocolates.
Madonna Ciccone "Don't Tell Me" (youtu.be/gLFWRDsx5AI) JK--From the "Music" LP.
Joe Henry "Stop (Don't Tell Me)" (youtu.be/-uaoDLcqo9I) JK--He wrote it. His sister-in-law Madonna Ciccone had a big hit with it.
Madonna "Cherish" (youtu.be/8q2WS6ahCnY) JK--Love how she appropriates title & catchphrase from gr8 Association hit in original song
Madonna "Beautiful Stranger" (youtu.be/rnruWnOd5Q0) JK--You sorta get sense that Mike Myers wore out his welcome on cultural scene
Madonna "Music" (youtu.be/Sdz2oW0NMFk) JK--Love how she works the word "bourgeoisie" into it in a non-pretentious non-ironic sense.
Madonna "Ray Of Light " (youtu.be/x3ov9USxVxY) JK--Soundtrack to skydiving video w/Sonya Kobielus & her uncle Paul. The girl soared
Egidia prefers Lady Gaga. I personally loved Madonna and want her to fill in as quarterback for both teams in the second half.
RT @KimJongNumberUn: Compared to Dad's funeral, this halftime show is overproduced. #SuperBowl
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The cheerleaders and marching band thing is well done. Cee-Lo comes out. Pretty friggin' cool.
I like Madonna's halftime show much more than Tom Petty's from...when was it? Is this Nicki Minaj? She's cool too.
Madonna's obviously toned. She clearly works out and does her yoga. Just like Beyonce, who I expect will also age well.
This woman has one of most awesome back catalogs of high-quality hit popsongs in music history. I listen rather than look. But she's cute
Madonna doing "Music." One of my favorite of her hits. That cool jerky beat.
My TweetDeck is a stream of venom from friends who want Madonna to slink off to an old folks' home. The 53-year-old is still a fox.
Rochester Hills, Michigan singer about to take the field in Indianapolis. "What you looking at?"
I don't care about either team, but I'lll watch the rest of the Super Bowl for the explicit purpose of making wisecracks on Twitter.
Halftime entertainment usually skews to older demographic. They've got Madonna, an artist who is...my age. Oh my god. I am totally skewed!
Touchdown! Tom Brady ties it going into halftime. PAT good! New England a point up. My Boston-area colleagues will B insufferable on socials
Hmmm..ad for upcoming/not-yet-rated "GI Joe" movie with Bruce Willis. His ex Demi Moore once made "GI Jane." Her career never recovered.
RT @NekoCase: I need to start a dating site for you guys. Hook up nice dudes who floss with smart ladies who like to eat cake and hot dogs!
I'm not actually rooting for either team. Not all that into commercials either. Waiting for halftime. Hoping for wardrobe malfunction.
Tuned into Super Bowl for halftime. Two-minute warning in 2nd quarter. Commercial with sexy woman. Commercial with dog. Put woman back on
"Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous." --Confucius
Stores were packed today for pre-Super Bowl rush. Thank goodness no snow is predicted. Would have precipitated retail gridlock. Shopageddon!
"Capgomeh Singkawang 2011" (youtu.be/lu-waJYTDD0) JK--Annual celebration from my wife's hometown. People sit/stand/ride on swords.
The Shins "Nothing At All" (youtu.be/BMCdQ_1IOxM) JK--Gr8 one from "Phantom Limb" EP. Inexplicbly left off gem-packed "Wincing The.."
The Shins "Gone For Good" (youtu.be/wWiR9IUGEIg) JK--Country-western song from "Chutes Too Narrow." Original James Mercer composition
The Shins "Goodbye Girl" (youtu.be/JfF2t6AphJ0) JK--Their cover of the Squeeze song. They have awesome songwriter, knows gr8 material
Levi's® Pioneer Sessions: The Shins (youtu.be/hnx9SVHyGaE) JK--James Mercer interviewed. Does snatch of Squeeze's "Goodbye Girl"
The Shins "Young Pilgrims" (youtu.be/uW3Z1W8n2Dw) JK--From 2003's "Chutes Too Narrow." The man weaves wonderfully quirky lyric lines.
The Shins "The Past and Pending" (youtu.be/e6dYB35lF_0) JK--Also from "Oh, Inverted World." A contemplative pensive longwalk.
The Shins "Know Your Onion!" (youtu.be/LdBOogz8PtU) JK--From 2001's "Oh, Inverted World." Group became the defining indie-pop band
The Shins "Girl Sailor" (youtu.be/Rx90unirOEA) JK--Also from "Wincing the Night Away." James Mercer writes exquisite melodies.
The Shins "Red Rabbits" (youtu.be/jTeNz5TVusk) JK--Has an enchanted fairytale feeling. From 2007's awesome "Wincing the NIght Away"
I love the bread sample bar at Harris Teeter. The black olive tapenade spread is terrific! Gimme seconds!
My HMO's Android app is better than their website. Kaiser Permanente. Speeds me to the stuff I need to see.
Curious why Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage, & Talia Shire have never been all in the same film project. Or have they?
Enterprise service bus. I can't recall the last time I heard anyone use the term "ESB" in active vocabulary. I still hear "SOA" though.
#ETL . One of best 3-letter acronyms in middleware. Spells out precise seq of hi -level steps: extract, transform, load. Glosses over rest.
#BI . Let's rename it "efficacious actionable intelligence." Forget it. Scratch that. Dont want to put another nebulous "EAI" in circulation
Putin. Hope he didn't name any of his kids "Ras."
Think of how ingeniously humanity has calculated the contours of this cage called the cosmos from macro to nano.
Calculating our merry way thru the stars, the landscape, & our precious possessions. Drivers of human math development from the start.
Subject of "Cepheid variables" came up in casual conversation at my bro's birthday party last night. Astronomy not math. Google it.
ESPN announcer: "This is the Cinderella story of the New York Giants!!!" Only girlie metaphor allowed into NFL macho inner cliche sanctum.
Curious what ad-optimization algorithm routinely places photo of skid-row derelict & "need help getting out of debt?" in my Yahoo homepage.
The Economist "Facebook: A Fistful of Dollars" (economist.com/node/21546012) JK--See print edition 4 one o funniest cover illus this mag's ever run
