Sunday, April 15, 2012

Aweekstweets April 8-15 2012: the week I referred to Sen. Al Franken as “former funnyman”

3m

Never quite understood term "data-driven." You should be results-navigated, analytics-steered, & data-fueled.

5m

RT @jowyang: "I'm going to count all the ads I can see from a fixed position here in times square" JK--Research project or wasting time?

18m

Today's the 100th anniversary of Titanic sinking. How many cruise ships cross North Atlantic anymore? What sort of traveler would do that?

27m

No truth to rumor that Buffett Rule is "If some people claim there's a woman to blame, it's your own damn fault."

30m

As in "Hey man, Romney can win with Santorum's playbook. Doesn't that blow your mind?"

31m

Every statement can be transformed into "patronizing hippie" statemnt by starting w/ "Hey man" and/or ending w/ "Doesnt that blow yr mind?"

10h

The Art of Complex Problem Solving (http://bit.ly/HUZXwK) JK--Brilliant structured visual step-thru of the problem solving.

10h

The Logic Lab (http://bit.ly/HUZEBW) JK--Build your own simplistic mockups of integrated circuits.

10h

"Six Rules for Dining Out" (http://bit.ly/HGGilV) JK--Read his interesting rationale for "Beware the beautiful, laughing women."

11h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bad Girls by M.I.A.JK--Fine new single from the Sri Lankan-British force of nature. She just stays tough and cool.

11h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp It All Means Nothing by Screaming Females from Ugly JK--New. Love the band name. Sharp riotgrrl guitar groove.

11h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Good Fortune by PJ Harvey from Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea JK---2000. Song that hooked me on PJ.

12h

Was a good day. Wide-ranging. Our optometrist is now in Silver Spring MD--30 miles away! But was pleasant day 2 see place again. Been ages

12h

@AdamBates_KPMG Interesting. What he needs is a design consultant to overcome the "only round lenses" hurdle to mass adoption.

17h

I suspect the correlation, if any, is on male viewer attentiveness & stupefication. Both are likely to cause men to sign up for nonsense.

17h

Curious whether infomercial marketers have predictive models correlating bodacity attributes of female spokespeople to response rates.

17h

Watching "Wealth Without Risk" infomercial. Dumpy guy in business suit reveals the secret to attentive buxom blonde with plunging neckline.

18h

Decent progress on building the HOT lanes on Capital Beltway in No. Virginia. Sooner they detangle the construction disruptions the better

18h

I kinda wanted 2 try the fare @ the rolling pupuseria in downtown Silver Spring but wife recommended the one-buck Big Macs nearby. Cool w/me

18h

#IBM #PureSystems. Prepackaged hardware-optimized solution bundles w/integrated expertise patterns. Consider them results acccelerators.

18h

If it exists, why hasn't it been commercialized? What's missing?

18h

Will eyeglass lenses of the future auto-adjust their refraction to fit changes in your visual acuity over yr lifetime? How 2 make that work?

18h

Parking meters will evolve into charging meters, in 2 senses of word: they'll charge you 4 use of the space & they'll charge yr electric car

23h

Film maker Whit Stillman doesn't like word "perfectionist." Prefers "particularist." A shorter word would suffice, actually: "fussbudget"

23h

WSJ "Plastic is Fantastic" (http://on.wsj.com/HHG8vt) JK--Uh-oh. We've been round this block before. It's polyester 1970s redux!

23h

"Condescending Wonka" (aka @laughbook ) is one of funniest quip-tweeters out there. But infinite-loop of Gene "Wonka" Wilder creeping me out

14 Apr Condescending Wonka@Laughbook Oh, the amount of people who confuse "to" and "too" is amazing two me.

14 Apr Condescending Wonka@Laughbook

Oh, you drink Diet Coke with your Big Mac? You must lose so much weight.

14 Apr Condescending Wonka@Laughbook

Oh, you're unique, Just like everyone else.

23h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Fond Farewell by Elliott Smith from From a Basement on the Hill JK--Late artist had bittersweet tonalities

23h

"Data is the new oil"? You've gotta be joking. For starters, it's a renewable resource. For another, it's cheap as can be.

23h

Sandpipers "Come Saturday Morning" (http://youtu.be/Kg0-a4zlwNM) JK--Liza Minelli nominated for Oscar in the movie "Sterile Cuckoo" (1969)

23h

Two beautiful purple birds alighted on my deck briefly, pecked into the dirt of one of our flower pots, then flew off. Wish I had my camera

23h

" #IBM, Honda, & PG&E Enable Smarter Charging 4 Electric Vehicles" (http://prn.to/IVvQFz) JK--Distributed power opti'zn over vehicle fleet

23h

Will Amazon's rise as an online retailer juggernaut lead to the implosion of Big Boxes everywhere? Discuss amongst.

14 Apr

Nothing signals passage of time in high tech more than the boneyard of forgotten/obsolete acronyms that were once the rage. "ISDN" anyone?

13 Apr

Wow! Andrew Bird "Tenuousness" on an American Express commercial.

13 Apr

Listening to Norah Jones "Say Goodbye." New collab with Dangermouse. Outstanding. She should do every record with him.

13 Apr

"Is Twitter Implosion Headed Our Way?" (http://bit.ly/IN518r) JK--Who sez we do this to have conversations? I do it 2 comment & eavesdrop

13 Apr

RT @GilPress " #Big Data & Demise of Analog Retail (http://bit.ly/IN47Zw) JK--Or evolution of oldstyle retail into new type of experience

13 Apr

Listening to Michael Jackson "Billie Jean." "The child is not my son"? Riddle? Oh, is that cuz the kid's his daughter? Answer on back of LP?

13 Apr

Listening to Lambchop "Soaky in the Pooper" (http://youtu.be/EdN0vo8Dx8I) JK--1994. Weirdest title ever for suicide song. Distinctive sound

13 Apr

@BigDataGuru #BigData #DataScientists #Brain Could use more of what?

13 Apr

If you conceptualize the #BigData devel sandbox as your entire global community of in-house & on-demand smarts, you need sandbox w/scale-out

13 Apr

Watching SNL rerun. Chris Kattan on "Weekend Update" as French fictional movie pixie Amalie. Weird. I thought about this bit at lunch today

13 Apr

Friday evening. Glad it's here. It's the 13th. I'm cool with that. Crap happens on every date, near as I can tell.

13 Apr

Does your #BigData devel sandbox have every variety of algothmic sand your data scientists need 2 play with & press into analytic patterns?

13 Apr

Choose your #BigData analytics development sandboxing platform wisely. Make sure it has scalabiity to support yr entire data-science program

13 Apr

Chelsea Handler. Does her agent refer to self as "Handler's handler."

13 Apr

Fairly good day. Realized that the IT architectrl frameworks I've worked up over past several years have real utility for clarifying options

13 Apr

Heard an #IBM colleague refer to "data-driven journalism" today. Not sure what's different. True journalism gets the data/facts straight

13 Apr

Why is the 1970s now the hot decade to lampoon? I thought the 80s were thoroughly lame. The 70s had better films, TV shows, & music, IMHO

13 Apr

" IBM Exec Offers Deeper Look at DB2 10" (http://bit.ly/IELSnV) JK--Good interview with @berniespang

13 Apr

" #Varicent Deal To Expand #IBM Business Analytics Mix" (http://bit.ly/IELhlY) JK--Compensation and sales performance management analytics

13 Apr

"Keith Moon, The Who drummer who died in 1978, invited to play at Olympics" (http://yhoo.it/ILBKLm) JK--Drummed loud enuff to wake the dead

13 Apr

"Titanic was high-tech marvel of its time" (http://bit.ly/HwCQqw) JK--When high-tech is laid low, some feel schadenfreude.

13 Apr

Hmmm....my expertise at open-ended customer inquiries on wide range of adjacent tech topics has come in handy. Me as internal #IBM resource

13 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Odessa (Junior Boys mix) by Caribou from Swim Remixes JK--Song about Crimean recipe for chicken steak.

13 Apr

WSJ "Once '60s-'70s Relic, Comedy Album Back" (http://on.wsj.com/HCGumh) JK--We had Cosby, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Chch&Chng, & "1st Family"

13 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Hex Girlfriend by Neon Indian frm Era Extrna JK--Funny lyric "Teary eyes & bloody lips make U look like Stevie Nicks"

13 Apr

" #Bigdata mgt debate: Buy tools now or fix data issues 1st?" (http://bit.ly/GKTYZD) JK--Not either/or. Buy tools now to fix data issues 1st

13 Apr

"PureSystems, something old, something new, something from big blue" (http://bit.ly/HwxfAB) JK--First of a comprehensive 5-part series.

13 Apr

@Boomajoom Thanks. Not too late. I posted it last month. The trends haven't changed that much in intervening weeks (http://bit.ly/HFKOi7)

12 Apr

"The motion of the ocean" (http://bit.ly/Ikajo2) JK--A truly beautiful & powerful visualization of the currents of the world ocean system.

12 Apr

"MIT mimics the web to give chips a speed boost" (http://bit.ly/HyNrA4) JK--Researcher explores on-chip router internetworks

12 Apr

"Elephant on Mars -- sculpted by lava flow" (http://fxn.ws/HyMWG0) JK--No, it's #BigData #Hadoop manifest destiny to conquer solar system

12 Apr

"'Cuddle drug' may be the new Viagra" (http://bit.ly/IB3u1t) JK--Hey ladies, if his cuddling lasts more than 4 hours, tell him 2 go bowling

12 Apr

Hey Saugatuck Tech, what's with "CMSA" (http://bit.ly/IB2j22) standing for "Cloud, Mobile, Social & Data Analytics "? Wh'hoppen 2 da "D"?

12 Apr

"Journalism has a future" (http://zd.net/HGKsqK) JK--Dont kid selves. Journalism's never paid well. My degree woulda impoverished my future

12 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Wasn't Born To Follow by The Sadies from Tremendous Efforts JK--Cool Byrds cover.

12 Apr

Chuck Berry's biggest hit was sequel 2 his most famous. Johnny B Goode progressd frm playing guitar like ringing bell 2 playin w/ding-a-ling

12 Apr

The Economist has cool FB timeline. Reports/pictures stretching bak 2 late 19th cntury. Reading about Titanic, 1912 (http://on.fb.me/H2RqcV)

12 Apr

Paul McCartney & Wings "Junior's Farm" (http://youtu.be/_QYm837uCTE) JK--Listen to Paul's early 70s recordings on their own merits. Cool!

12 Apr

Pere Ubu "Codex" (http://youtu.be/vxAkHDDwZGo) JK--The languid coda to "Dub Housing." I think of it as haunted-house psychedelia.

12 Apr

Anybody who was in college in the decidedly odd/alienated late 70s who heard the original Pere Ubu then realized they nailed the "moment."

12 Apr

Pere Ubu "Navvy" (http://youtu.be/91KBuWqxE7g) JK--1978, from "Dub Housing" LP. Punkiest they ever got. But weird even by punk "standards"

12 Apr

Pere Ubu "All the Dogs Are Barking" (http://youtu.be/ut828SMBFpw) JK--"You gotta have happiness...homes...heart..hands...horns..hope...help"

12 Apr

Pere Ubu "Birdies" (http://youtu.be/KH2aKCJa9yc) JK--"The birdies are singing, the birdies are saying what I want to say!"

12 Apr

Pere Ubu "Misery Goats" (http://youtu.be/18W8i9Nici0) JK--"Don't mope-mope-a-dope. Not as bad, not as bad as all that."

12 Apr

Pere Ubu "Use Of a Dog" (http://bit.ly/HB74rr) JK--Best use of stammr since "My Generation." "His loyalty 2 his m-m-master never in dispute"

12 Apr

So much market intelligence is out there in the open, for the taking, if you just do the aggregation, correlation, & interpretation

12 Apr

Woman on radio commercial seems far too chirpy telling U they can help U w/ "those ugly varicose & spider veins." Sound grave/concerned pls

12 Apr

@TonyBaer #TD3PI Of course she's spying on you. All the boys think @Claudia_Imhoff is a spy, she's got..... http://youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8

12 Apr

@NeilRaden "It" is "going over" well. "It" = "IT," the primary solutions eman8ng from said firm. "Going over" = 100+ years of glory. Thanks

12 Apr

Listening to Four Seasons "December 1963 (Oh What a NIght)" on local radio. 1975. Glad they hit charts 1 last time w/this catchy disco tune

12 Apr

RT @NeilRaden: http://bit.ly/zZJ3nv My paper on #Hadoop "Putting All Your Eggs in Three Baskets" #crchat #bigdata JK--Gr8 approach Neil!

12 Apr

@rwang0 #td3pi #bigdata A small database company in Armonk NY? Must be headless, lurking in the hollows. Summon Ichabod Crane.

12 Apr

Analyst tweets are best read in the aggregate. Especially when a bunch of them are in same room tweeting about the same vendor presentations

12 Apr

Listening to Rick Springfield "Jessie's Girl" on over-the-air local radio. One of those dumb radio songs I love in spite of myself.

12 Apr

@Claudia_Imhoff No problem-o. I squirt out stanzas one at a time, not sure what will come next. Just follow my instinct.

12 Apr

@SethGrimes I'm still coming across stuff I said a while ago. Sometimes I forget what I said when.

12 Apr

@Claudia_Imhoff Here's the full text of the poem (http://on.fb.me/HEDQLR)

12 Apr

@SethGrimes #IBM #NextBestAction That was at last month's Smarter Analytics event. Not sure if she published anything that contains that

12 Apr

@Claudia_Imhoff No babe, just wrote a triple-haiku. Spooled out the 3 stanzas in 3 separate texts. While reading the hardcopy Economist.

12 Apr

As deeply azure/as the black ground universe/it obliterates.

12 Apr

So saturated/the rest of the spectrum fades/in day's drowned iris.

12 Apr

Bluer than the sky/actually blues naturally./That's saturation.

12 Apr

Typical smartypants cover story in The Economist: "France in Denial: The West's Most Frivolous Election." Article doesnt develop that thesis

12 Apr

"OpenStack scores IBM, Red Hat, Yahoo support" (http://bit.ly/IJcEIh) JK-- #IBM contributing code as well.

12 Apr

"Microsoft, instead of turning lights off on XP, make it open source" (http://bit.ly/Hy6VVm) JK--Open source: dumping grounds or commons?

12 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Emmylou by First Aid Kit from The Lion's Roar JK--Gr8 lyric: "I was born to endure this kind of weather."

12 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Simple Song by The Shins frm Port of Morrow JK--Like "So Says I" on 2nd LP, "Phantom Limb" on 3rd: big bold anthemic

12 Apr

"15 MIT Research Projex That'll Make U Say ‘Whoa’" (http://bit.ly/IIV334) JK--"Augmented Product Counter" (#12) will acceler8 BigBox demise

12 Apr

"Diamonds Are Quantum Scientist's Best Friends" (http://bit.ly/HFHbbd) JK--Yeah, & I'll bet the mathematics are the hardest in all creation.

12 Apr

Curious. What did the original Riot Act say beyond "rioting is illegal"? Why was it necessary to read it to the offenders?

12 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Want 2 Sing Tht Rock&Roll by Gillian Welch from Time (The Revelator) JK--Pretty Americana paean 2 electrified bliss

12 Apr

Hey @DJCherylWaters #KEXP , singer-songwriter @NekoCase also hails from Alexandria VA, my neck of the woods. Woman of the world, apparently.

12 Apr

#IBM #BigData customer success stories (http://ibm.co/IyWbqR) JK--Excellent, extensive, and comprehensive.

12 Apr

"Operations, machine learning & premature babies" (http://oreil.ly/HRlSAR) JK--Machine learning can auto-detect conditions below human radar

12 Apr

"Master Data Management – Beyond Customer Info Integration" (http://bit.ly/I6ydEl) JK--#IBM Rick Clements highlights diverse MDM use cases

12 Apr

" #BigData: A Boon For Governance Professionals" (http://bit.ly/HqmZyk) JK--Comprehensive discussion by #IBM Sunil Soares.

12 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Sad Vacation by Dandy Warhols from This Machine JK--Brand new Dandies. Took me a split-second to luv it.

12 Apr

@Brett2point0 Hey Brett, I'm not noticing any "Mercer's repeating himself" songs on the new one. It's his/their core style, though

12 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp New Slang by The Shins frm Oh, Inverted World JK--Instant classic frm their 1st, now 10+ yrs old. Luv "Port o Morrow"

12 Apr

Cleese/creativity: "If just U keep yr mind resting against subjct in friendly persistnt way, soonr/later U'll get reward frm yr unconscious"

12 Apr

Cleese on creativity: "It’s not enough 2 create space; U have 2 create your space 4 specific period of time." JK--For me, that's nanosecond

12 Apr

RT @brainpicker: John Cleese on the 5 factors to make yr life more creative – fantastic talk circa 1991 http://j.mp/ICxPAv ( @simonreyno)

12 Apr

@imrantech #BigData Not only are we not intimidated by volume (velocity & variety) of data, we're not intimidated by statistical analysis

12 Apr

WSJ "Bonding Experience Is Lost as a Traditional Gift Disappears" (http://on.wsj.com/IDRrnK) JK--Oh well. Betcha kids prefer cash.

12 Apr

"Why is #BigData Revolutionary?" (http://zd.net/Hztgqw) JK--"We’re no longer intimidated by data volumes."

12 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp 4th and Vine by Sinead O'Connor from How About I Be Me (and You Be You)? JK--Brand new. Reggae-fied. Quite good.

12 Apr

"At #IBM, #bigdata management is big -- really big" (http://bit.ly/HCPvwt) JK--We definitely use analytics intensively, internally.

12 Apr

"Google+ Gets a Complete Overhaul" (http://bit.ly/HCP6u2) JK--Rearranging deck chairs. Titanic 100th anniversary approacheth.

12 Apr

"Customer Analytics Key to Netflix's Future" (http://bit.ly/HCOWmc) JK--Key 2 everybody's future. You dont know customers as well as need to

12 Apr

"IBM Launches Expert, Pre-Configured PureSystems" (http://bit.ly/HCOJQ8) JK--Workload-optimized, function-fitted, value-focused simplicity

12 Apr

I saw biz/tech article refer, I believe mistakenly, to "virtualization" as "vitalization." I'll bet it was incorrect autocorrect. But I like

12 Apr

" IBM Announces 2012 #IBM Fellows" (http://bit.ly/IxMcoa) JK--Invest, incentivize, & organize to foster deep research & drive into solutions

12 Apr

Snow White "Whistle While You Work" (http://youtu.be/gOL0rMBdNKw) JK--Seriously, DON'T! People who whistle while I'm trying 2 work annoy me

11 Apr

"Researchers build invisible passwords w/ vibrations, sounds, flashing lights" (http://zd.net/HBQtZP) JK--Special effects? I want a jetpack!

11 Apr

"Perfect fit: cloud & SOA but dont call it that" (http://bit.ly/HBQeht) JK--Too bad Y2K came before SOA: could've had reusable false alarms

11 Apr

Springfield Trader Joe's has been here since 2003. Don't recall life before then.

11 Apr

Does your work blog NOT reference or link to any other blog in your company? If that's so, you're a social silo, the saddest oxymoron.

11 Apr

My #IBM #BigData colleague @DaiClegg quipped "smells like #Hadoop spirit." I said that suggests aromatic nirvana of baby elephant turds.

11 Apr

One could run. But if the Data Scientist presidential hopeful's model predicts they'll take White House, it's probably skew-y. A bit screwy

11 Apr

Good. Now that we have settled down into 2-candidate general election mode, we can safely ignore the presidential campaigns til early Nov.

11 Apr

"7 Ways #IBM Will Make $7 Billion In Cloud" (http://bit.ly/HAUA91) JK--Excellent comprehensive discussion of our cloud biz strategy.

11 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp North Side Gal by JD McPherson from Signs & Signifiers JK--New artist. Oldschool rockin' R&B. Vintage 1957-ish.

11 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Lights Out by Santigold from Santogold JK--You can't NOT be hooked by this killer vocal hook.

11 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Assessment by The Beta Band from Heroes to Zeros JK--My assessment? They emerged frm beta ages ago: solid, performant

11 Apr

Catching up on all my reading. Including the recent published #BigData analytic-related outputs of analysts in many fine firms.

11 Apr

Reading #Gartner @merv "How to Choose the Right Apache Hadoop Distribution" from February. Good overview of subprojects by distro vendor

11 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Life Away From the Garden by Damien Jurado from Maraqopa JK--Absolutely love this album. Must buy.

11 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Lost Cause by Beck from Sea Change JK--Genuinely soulful, not post-modern/ironic. One of Beck's best.

11 Apr

" "#IBM Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Computing" (http://ibm.co/Il54sH) JK--Today's news rls on #IBMPureSystems. Check out fact sheet

11 Apr

The built-in expertise in #IBMPureSystems come from fact that we have long track record helping customers deliver value on these initiatives

11 Apr

You will hear far more from us on #IBMPureSystems in #BigData solutions in coming months. Stay tuned.

11 Apr

Essentially, #IBMPureSystems delivers appliance-like quick value & optimization on complex #BigData , #OLTP , cloud & middleware initiatives

11 Apr

" IBM Enters Converged Infrastructure Fray w/ PureSystems" (http://bit.ly/IFmHAT) JK--125 ISVs've intro'd 150+ apps opt'zd 2 work w/platform

11 Apr

" #IBM unveils new line of integr8d systems" (http://bit.ly/IgBvEi) JK5--PureSystems will be config'd w/Patterns of Expertise, e.g. #BigData

11 Apr

" #IBM unveils new line of integr8d systems" (http://bit.ly/IgBvEi) JK3--PureSystems are a fundamental platform for our future releases.

11 Apr

" #IBM unveils new line of integr8d systems" (http://bit.ly/IgBvEi) JK2--PureSystems are for middleware and apps (transactional & analytic).

11 Apr

" #IBM unveils new line of integr8d systems" (http://bit.ly/IgBvEi) JK--PureSystems. Repeatble hw/sw sol'ns w/built-in integ/optz'n patterns

11 Apr

The Scaffold "Lily The Pink" (http://youtu.be/2x8D4T--0v4) JK--1968. On left is Mike McGear, aka Michael McCartney, aka Paul's younger bro

11 Apr

"Can Retailers Halt 'Showrooming'?" (http://on.wsj.com/I3vXdT) JK--Emerging strategies. Whatever happened to "we'll match anybody's price"?

10 Apr

The Teen Tones (with Robert Klein) "Sunday Kind Of Love" (http://youtu.be/4cFnOzxWD9Y) JK--Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (2-10-57). IMHO they suck

10 Apr

Unaired 1968 "All in the Family" pilot "Justice for All" (http://youtu.be/4xwKhHoQ-_w) JK--Same 2 leads (O'Connor/Stapleton). Same themesong

10 Apr

Love American Style "Love & The Happy Days" (http://youtu.be/5l-sUjzbK18) JK--1972. Sappy ABC sketch-sitcom show spawnd hit nostalgia sitcom

10 Apr

Historical map of devel of complexity/chaos science (http://bit.ly/I1i1o1) JK--Complex but not chaotic. Emergent from scientific communities

10 Apr

Love these fractal animations (http://bit.ly/IfLkSY). Like swimming in a paisley pond swarming with psychedelic squid.

10 Apr

@datagenius Somehow I doubt that skills will "commoditize." Data science is the heart of #BigData devel, & that's problem-solving creativity

10 Apr

Tennis "Deep In The Woods" (http://youtu.be/1NEmE6fkMVA) JK--Unabashed romantic retro-pop sound. See also "She & Him" & "Camera Obscura"

10 Apr

NYTimes " #IBM Aims to Sharply Simplify Corporate Data Center Technology" (http://nyti.ms/HqQrj2) JK--Stay tuned.

10 Apr

#BigData best practices & integration patterns are precious. How many skilled, experienced #Hadoop pros can U find 4 cheap on open market?

10 Apr

@freebalance Right. As if people aren't entering the analyst space continuously from all sectors of the known universe.

10 Apr

"The year 2000 as envisioned in the year 1910" (http://bit.ly/HtZKxo) JK--Almost got it. That depicts post-Y2K stupidest-case scenario

10 Apr

"Richard Feynman: The Beauty of the Flower" (http://youtu.be/ZbFM3rn4ldo) JK--Includes the beauty of invisible patterns that science reveals

10 Apr

"Carl Sagan's influence on Neil Tyson" (http://youtu.be/eeqrN3Bfro8) JK--Famous older astrophysicist showed generosity to promising teenager

10 Apr

Carl Sagan "A Glorious Dawn" (http://youtu.be/zSgiXGELjbc) JK--Transformed into a song through auto-tuning. Quite good.

10 Apr

"A beautiful but creepy vision of the "smart glass" future" (http://bit.ly/HqKWku) JK--Not creepy at all. Brings life to every surface.

10 Apr

"Tesco virtual supermarket in a subway station" (http://bit.ly/HqKFxY) JK--Totally cool. Pls put those in airports and convention ctrs too

10 Apr

Daily Show w/Jon Stewart: "Faith/Off - Easter vs. Passover" (http://bit.ly/HvmjXa) JK--Jon throws in towel. Must win hearts & minds of kids

10 Apr

Jack Handey "Alexander the Great" (http://nyr.kr/yhQZNy) JK--"At the age of ten, he conquered all of Greece, clad only in his underpants."

10 Apr

I must protest Dave Menninger going to #EMC . Industry analysts not supposed to crossover to the vendor side. Goes against the natural order

10 Apr

Dave's new Twitter handle is @dmenningeremc . I have never ever heard of his new employer. Honest. Who dey? ;-)

10 Apr

Fancy that. DMenninger leaves analyst "space," rejoins vendor "space." I'll relish competing w/him in latter space as much I did the former

10 Apr

Kurt Vile "Baby's Arms" (http://youtu.be/enTY6AITe1Q) JK--His real birth name, believe or not. Not punker. Sorta like Bonnie "Prince" Billy

10 Apr

Louis Armstrong "Mack the Knife" (http://youtu.be/hLIrS5dtTZI) JK--Aka Mackie Messer. No relation 2 Jimmy Messer, a strange Livonia charactr

10 Apr

The Doors "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" (http://youtu.be/YbzvSYLCSo0) JK--1969. Bushy-bearded Morrison on KWeill cover they did on '67 debut

10 Apr

Judy Garland "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (http://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU) JK--She was 19. And she really could sing.

10 Apr

Shirley Temple "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (http://youtu.be/wNwFXLcrsbc) JK--Why couldn't 30s child actors actually sing?

10 Apr

Alfalfa "I'm in the Mood for Love" (http://youtu.be/yuOsB4psC9E) JK--Iconic? Voice of a generation? True American classic? No. Just off-key

10 Apr

"Apache promotes Sqoop as top-level project" (http://bit.ly/ICuD61) JK--HIgh time. Essential #BigData component. SQL access to #Hadoop

10 Apr

"DARPA seeks car-driving, life-saving robots" (http://bit.ly/Ihwoa4) JK--Humble handy heroes who help humans hold on.

10 Apr

Blog re new #IBM fellow @JeffJonas & "G2" analytics sensemaking tech he's developing (http://ibm.co/IuMEoo)

10 Apr

"Who should be at root of protecting nation's healthcare data?" (http://bit.ly/HGJWKI) JK--Provocative call 4 natl HC data rootkey authority

10 Apr

RT @IBMITAR: Congrats IBM's new Fellows @JeffJonas, Luba Cherbakov, Paul Coteus, Ronald Fagin, Vincent Hsu, Ruchir Puri & Balaram Sinharoy

10 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Desire Lines by Deerhunter from Halcyon Digest JK--Richly layered pounding rock jam. Totally boss!

10 Apr

#BigData: Frequently Asked Questions for #IBM InfoSphere BigInsights (http://youtu.be/I4hsZa2jwAs). Good overview of our #Hadoop offering

10 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Speak for Me by Cat Power from You Are Free JK--This one's got a righteously sharp guitar sound.

10 Apr

RT @vgrund: Wait is almost over! Tomorrow #IBM will unveil new era of computing, dont miss out! RSVP: http://ow.ly/aafEf #ExpertSystems

10 Apr

" #BigData Explosion Is Big Business For Many" (http://linkd.in/Hu8YKs) JK--Highlights #IBM deep, ongoing investments in this space.

10 Apr

"Will #BigData be Blinded by Data Science?" (http://linkd.in/Hu8HXX) JK--Or enlightened? Need real-world experiments for deep truthseeking

10 Apr

"Senator Al Franken: Privacy is a Fundamental Right" (http://bit.ly/HZJcQ7) JK--Powerful & articulate statement from the former funnyman

10 Apr

"Stupid tech support tricks: IT calls of shame" (http://bit.ly/HZIS3O) JK--No shame. Tech issues occasionally turn me into a gibbering idiot

10 Apr

"Cameron narrates stunning Titanic simulation" (http://cnet.co/HZIl1T) JK--Great animation. But lacks simulated doomed-young-love story.

10 Apr

"Is Legacy Storage Dead?" (http://bit.ly/Iebnd7) JK--Not dead, but the new gen of all-SSD will rapidly obsolete it as prices drop.

10 Apr

"Why Programmers Should Use Haskell Language Now" (http://bit.ly/IvUIAD) JK--If U wanna write code like your big bro's smart-ass best friend

10 Apr

"Big Mac Botnet Mostly Made Up Of U.S. Machines" (http://bit.ly/Hpu2T9) JK--The Homer Simpson in me started to drool at thought of "Big Mac"

10 Apr

RT @VanessaAlvarez1 @datacenter #Microsoft 2 Build Data Center in Wyoming (http://bit.ly/Hwfa5S ) JK--Wyoming & data center? Low-cost power?

10 Apr

"Detroit makes pitch 4 ousted Yahoo employees" (http://bit.ly/HptyfQ) JK--Hey northern Californians, Great Lakes State is lovely in summer

10 Apr

10 Predictions from Experts on how #BigData will impact business in 2012 @TonyBaer @jameskobielus @dhinchcliffe @edd http://bit.ly/HtuZ1B

10 Apr

When people "laugh all the way to the bank," & they're still laughing when they walk in the door, do security guards pay special attention?

10 Apr

We're past the first big pollen swarm of Spring, into the "oh shoot gotta mow the lawn soon" phase.

9 Apr

Cosmopolitan's latest is labeled "The Sex Issue." Oh, lookee here, Sports Illustrated's latest is the "Jocks and Armchair Jocks" issue.

9 Apr

Facebook acquiring Instagram. Deepening former's status as the go-to social pictorial community.

9 Apr

Watched PBS genealogy show last night w/historian HLGates Jr. Uber-WASP Yankee couple Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick descend from slaveholders

9 Apr

#BigData is nothing if it doesnt deliver big value & pronto. Has yr Big Data Analytics solution providr built best practices in to acceler8?

9 Apr

" #BigData : Only Biz Model That Tech Has Left" (http://onforb.es/HEEPqN) JK--Monetizing data and/or providing platforms/svcs 2 do so

9 Apr

"Employees push IT to accept social networks" (http://bit.ly/HEEFzS) JK--"Bring Your Own Social"? That seems like the next logical demand.

9 Apr

Catching up on #IBM "Thinking Inside the Box" (http://bit.ly/HB2ZXg), wherein I'll be doing most of my blogging from now on. Stay tuned.

9 Apr

Dilbert uncovers the flipside of working at home. You may crave daily refuge from domesticity (http://bit.ly/Hu3aps)

9 Apr

Finished Keith Richards memoir over weekend. Great until near the end, when he ripped Mick a new one. Hey dude, he's your partner. Lay off

9 Apr

"Advocates of Plain Writing Act prod fed agencies 2 keep it simple" (http://wapo.st/HuiyAg) JK--Yeah, but simple can be loophole-infested

9 Apr

WSJ "Moving to Portugal" (http://on.wsj.com/HuibG2) JK--I also love Cascais by the sea. Spent a week there during my Forrester years.

9 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Moby Octopad by Yo La Tengo from I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One JK--Interpolates Who "Arminia City in the Sky"

9 Apr

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp If It's Monday Morning by Lee Hazlewood from Requiem for an Almost Lady JK--Exactly captures the mood.

9 Apr

Sergey Brin wearing the Google goggles (http://bit.ly/HrG9CW) JK--Wonder if the asymmetry of the things constitutes a hazardous distraction.

9 Apr

WSJ "Mike Wallace 1918-2012: Hard-Hitting Interviews Made 4 TV" (http://on.wsj.com/HAMY3P) JK--Fearless. Finest journalist in TV history

9 Apr

WSJ article also reminds of reporters who already have article title & angle nailed down, and ask slanted questions. Me no wanna respond

9 Apr

WSJ article reminds me of my least-favorite reporter interview approaches. Q (non-Q) "Tell us about [subject X]." Me: "You want tutorial?"

9 Apr

WSJ "Lost Art of the Live Interview" (http://on.wsj.com/ItWXHE) JK--Interviewers w/personal agendas who wont let guest get word in edgewise

10 Mar 11 Tim Siedell@badbanana On this day in 1876, Thomas A. Watson became the first person to have an afternoon ruined by a phone call from the boss.

9 Apr

Was reading Old Testament over the weekend, and I saw nothing that said Moses supposed his nose was a rose. Do we suppose this erroneously?

9 Apr

Beware any research paper wherein the researcher, call him "Mr. Smartguy" refers to something as "Smartguy's Law."

9 Apr

"Automated Science, Deep Data, & Paradox of Information" (http://bit.ly/I9ak2u) JK--Data science is sleuthing, revealing invisible patterns

9 Apr

OK, Twitterites, don't make me NOT FOLLOW you with extreme prejudice. For starters, don't put "handsome & talented" into your profile.

9 Apr

Disappointment is seeing you have new notification on Facebook and then finding they're "Hidden Chronicles." Then irritation sets in.

9 Apr

Check out Google's totally cool dynamic homepage homage today to Muybridge on his 182nd birthday: http://bit.ly/9EAEVP http://bit.ly/wsEpx

9 Apr

I increasingly tell people I'm from Fairfax County, Virginia. It's a substantial area all its own. Only say "Washington DC" sparingly.

9 Apr

I like taking photos with my cheesy little cameraphone because the lo-fi nature of the image forces you to focus on simple, arresting scenes

9 Apr

"Why Is Instagram So Popular?" (http://bit.ly/Ia2pRo) JK--Images don't need to be quality in order to be good.

9 Apr

"The Ten Commandments of BYOD" (http://bit.ly/Ia1yzX) JK--Incomplete. Doesn't say anything about not coveting neighbor's device.

9 Apr

Economy improves. Grew up near Detroit, so heart wants auto indstry 2 do well. Son & bro near LA, so want entertainmt & aerospce do well too

8 Apr

RIP Mike Wallace. Toughest questioner in broadcast TV. Always fair. Always prepared. Journalistic class act of the first degree.

8 Apr

Had lotta fun at Tom & Donna's Easter brunch. Only seat left was @ kids' table. We had good time doing animal noises. Donkeys go "hee haw"!

8 Apr

GQ: "How not 2 B the loser at the gym." Guys, if U view the gym thru a "winners v. losers" POV, you're a freakin' loser, IMHO.

8 Apr

Fracking. The fact that the word sounds dirty doesn't help the practice's advocates.

8 Apr

"How should a man treat his enemies?" "As enemies." --Barney Frank

8 Apr

"How's your wife?" "Compared to what?" --Henny Youngman

8 Apr

Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare "Swing Easy" (http://youtu.be/yyrZ_AB9GFc) JK--One of greatest rhythm sections of all time.

8 Apr

What's notable about Keith Richards' memoirs is, that thru all his addictions & legal troubles, he kept producing new music. And still alive

8 Apr

Argent "Hold Your Head Up" (http://youtu.be/FBnSWJHawQQ) JK--This one pure nostalgia 4 anyone, like me, who was in junior high in early 70s

8 Apr

Always important to pull artifacts of the past back into present experience. Memory tends to embalm.

8 Apr

Traffic "Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys" (http://youtu.be/udyNr0pY6ak) JK--Staple of early 70s prog-rock FM radio. Still sounds good

8 Apr

Rudy Vallee "Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1931)" (http://youtu.be/llhRGUYMcfU) JK--Think of this as "What's Goin' On" of Great Depression

8 Apr

Eddie Cantor ""Makin' Whoopee!" (1929)" (http://youtu.be/Cbcubbf3pDA) JK--People weren't dummies then. They knew he meant "doin' it".

8 Apr

Al Jolson "Swanee (1920)" (http://youtu.be/VB5_FScm41Q) JK--Sung with exquisite brio.

8 Apr

George Burns had funny observation about vaudeville: "it gave inexperienced performers somewhere they could be bad."

8 Apr

George Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue - Original 1924 Recording" (http://youtu.be/NIr_WPcVDt8) JK--Few songs are as iconic as this.

8 Apr

"Fred & Adele Astaire -- Fascinating Rhythm, 1926/Gershwin on Piano" (http://youtu.be/6BTM07B0U64) JK--Audio only. No film of them dancing.

8 Apr

WashPost "Five myths about water" (http://wapo.st/I23Wc7) JK--Gr8 fact-based botom line on why H2O not running out & bottled stuff overrated