I've settled into an
entirely solo yoga practice. I'm only person at LA Fitness Alexandria who uses
area labeled "stretching" for stretching
Saw "The Big
Lebowski" on DVD. Full o Coen quirk. Jeff Bridges' zen-like turn as Dude
held it together. Dude
co-authord Port
Saw "Pariah"
on DVD. Gripping account of African-American teenager's struggle to come out as
lesbian & set out on her own.
I've never seen
Kingstowne so crowded. Hard to find a parking place. I suspect a lot of these
people lack power & A/C.
We lucked out. Only
lost power for less than minute during last night's freakishly fast&over
thunderstorm. That wind had otherworldly howl
Local media respond to
every heatwave with the same tips for beating the heat. Why not tell us to use
umbrellas during rainy spells?
I can see that Fox
News wasted no time trying to scare people about healthcare insurance reform's
impact on premiums & taxes.
I love this dumb
commentary about whether Roberts' health issues influenced decision. Need
special excuse to explain correct judgment?
This week I heard
something I'd never heard before. Somebody said I look like Keith Moon. Almost
made me wanna trash my hotel room. I didn't
My car dashboard
thermometer said 106 degrees. My GPS said we are now on the surface of Venus.
That's a wrap for
June, far as I'm concerned.
I'm writing up the #IBM message on the "#Hadoop DW," presented at#hadoopsummit,
for #IBMDataManagement mag. Stay tuned. Detailed
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Final Solution by Pere Ubu from
Terminal Tower JK--1976. Art-punk-conceptualists had huge impact. I'm an Ubu
cultie!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Callin' Out by Lyrics Born JK--This
rapper is totally oldschool & cooler 4 it He's also a Gil Scott-Heron-grade
poet
RT @debtfreeguy: Man Plagued
by Porn-Induced Pain (http://bit.ly/OK5ITN) JK--Something tells me
NOT to click this link. Pandora's box of ???
I'm not super in love
with Fritos. Never have been. But in small doses, when you've got the munchies,
they are perfectly OK noshing material
Republican Chief
Justice Roberts upheld Obamacare. Republican Chief Justice Warren upheld Brown
v. Bd of Education. They won't be impeached
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Land
of the Freak by King Khan & The Shrines JK--Song mentions Kalamazoo
Today's #IBM #Netezza FB JK quick-hit: "Frictionless
sandboxes?" (http://on.fb.me/LVCBYK)
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp For Your Love by The Yardbirds from
For Your Love JK--That monster-chiller organ chord still sounds boss gear &
fab!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Dream All Day by The Posies from
Frosting on the Beater JK--1993. An early 90s rock radio song that still feels
fresh
@StevePR104 Life's good, sir. Busy as a beaver
with a big old tail slapping the pond, making cool ripple patterns, &
dammed happy.
@DTurnerBlogs It's simply a strange feeling of
hearing your own voice as others hear it, not as it's filtered through your own
cranium
@StevePR104 Yes, I'm sure your reaction is closer
to the "sounds good" end of the equation. Is that not so, Steverino?
Just listened to the
raw #IBM #BigData podcast I recorded yesterday. Sounds
good. But hearing my own recorded voice makes me squeamish
Have removed the June
page in my 2012 paper calendar. Have decided to focus on the future. Also,
vacation is nigh!
"Using semantic
tech 2 turn #BigData into smart data" (http://bit.ly/MZjdYG)
JK--"data scientist..bridge btwn biz+tech 2 do semantic layout"
"10 Fast Facts
About IBM's PureSystem" (http://bit.ly/MZj47r) JK--E.g., 160 Optimzed
ISV Partner Patterns o Expertise covering 20 industries
Last work day of
second quarter. Looking forward to a very action-packed second half of 2012.
Enjoying it all immensely.
Saw DVD of
"Beginners" with Christopher Plummer & Ewan McGregor. Good
performances but sleepy pace.
@EventCloudPro Don't actually understand your logic.
Right wing doesn't
truly care about ability of low income people 2 pay non-insured Obamacare tax
penalty. If they did, they'd boost subsidy
Woody Allen should
make at least one film where everybody wears hornrimmed glasses and stammers in
self-conscious Brooklynese.
Sean Penn, Alec
Baldwin & Bill Maher are pugnaciously liberal Irish-American celebs. Only
Maher's verbal punches consistently hit their mark
Another Woody Allen
interview expressing no interest in playing by Hollywood
rules. He's rich enough 2 self-finance projex. Why doesn't he?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp "Diplomat's Son" by Vampire
Weekend from Contra JK--Can't wait to hear what these guys release next. Modern
masters.
SCOTUS also ruled
yesterday that lying is constitutionally protected speech. Of course. Our
system of government depends on it.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Sunday Girl by Blondie from Parallel
Lines JK--One of their best pure pop songs.
I love the irony of
people threatening to flee to Canada Mexico
Andy
Richter @Andy_Richter
Check out the incredibly rational Obamacare reaction RTs @fart is digging up. And follow his funny ass while you're at
it. #FF
Bones indicates it was
tiny mammals who iced the dinosaurs. Find the dirty rats who dun it. Or shrews.
Whatever
Far as I can tell, @Eric_Kavanagh is only person who tweets successive
clauses in complex sentences. My style is self-containd sentnce/grafs
But I do miss the good
old days when I could get sick and pay the whole tab by my uninsured self and
not have to pay the govt a nickel f ...
Sitting here
contemplating all the freedom I've lost, now that I have the option of paying a
tax penalty to do without health insurance.
Dear FCC: The Mates of
State guy said "ship" on #KEXP.
You know, as in the first "mates" in the "state"room of the
Good Ship Lollipop.
"Analyst: #IBM Flex System Manager Reduces
IT-Management Complexity" (http://bit.ly/MBODr6) JK--Integral to our new#PureSystems platform
Saw DVD of recent
movie "21 Jump Street
"Metadata and the
Stroop Effect" (http://bit.ly/KP5S9O) JK--Just read it 2 see if
effect identified by a certain Merrill Stroop. It wasn't.
"#IBM & Lawrence Livermore Rschrs Form
‘Deep Computing Solutions’ Collab 2 Boost Indstrial Compet" (http://ibm.co/MBN8Jp)
JK--Press release
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Fuji-San by Patti Smith from Banga
JK--I love her singing & songwriting more now than ever. She's deepened
with age
Interviewed this
morning by Ajay Ohri of Decision Stats (http://bit.ly/MBMcVp) re #IBM #BigData offerings and directions
Feels like Friday. So
Friday-like you can taste it. But it's Thursday. A working grown-up's version
of senior-itis on a late June day
Those Facebook
"your e-cards" combine witty fresh sayings with totally dull generic
illustrations. Just publish the words. Dump the visuals
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Guided by Wire by Neko Case and Her
Boyfriends from Furnace Room Lullaby JK--One of her best original country
songs.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Thirty Days by Chuck Berry from The
Chess Box JK--Berry's own legal troubles make this lyric highly ironic.
I've seen a near-final
draft of the #IBM IOD #BigData track session abstracts for this
year's event. Excellent! I'll be speaking. More later
I'll be recording my
next #IBM podcast on Monday, to coincide with my
upcoming blog debunking Data Scientist myths. Stay tuned.
RT @graubart: This is awesome: deleted tweets
from politicians on#SCOTUS healthcare
decision http://bit.ly/KHXJ46
If GOP wants to
eliminate Obamacare, they need to attempt it through winning election &
pass law. Not thru specious constitutional arguments
SCOTUS saw clearly
that US Constitution does indeed give Congress power to levy tax penalty on
citizen behaviors (e.g., no health insurance)
Today's SCOTUS
decision strikes the definitive end of "pre-existing condition"
exclusions from healthcare plans in US. Good riddance!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Love, Reign O'er Me by The Who frm
Quadrophenia JK--These classic rockers' most operatic song. Orbison coulda done
it
"I didn't attend
the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark
Twain
"Lawrence
Livermore, IBM Team On #BigData"
(http://bit.ly/KP6sED)
JK--Deep Computing Solutions. HPC. Engineering modeling & simulation
"NASA Cranks Up
Its Rocket Science" (http://bit.ly/KP6bkZ) JK--But not using #BigData rocket scientists or liquefying #Hadoop 4 propulsion
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Fight Test by Flaming Lips from
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots JK--Wayne Coyne's squeaky voice makes you root
4 him
" Best Majors for
BI, Data Science" (http://bit.ly/KP5dW6) JK--Coursework in
Computational Science, Stochastic Optzn, Machine Learning, etc
New #IBM #Netezza FB JK quick-hit: "Big Data's
optimal deployment model? Revisiting the 3-tier topology" (http://on.fb.me/KP4UdL)
RT @TheSocialPitt: Just did a #bigdata podcast interview with@jameskobielus. Remind me
not to have coffee b4 talking to him.#alljackedup
"Occupy Silicon Valley !" (http://bit.ly/QrVTHk)
JK--Please give that "Occupy..." jazz a rest. What is this? 2011?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bullet w/Butterfly Wings by Smashing
Pumpkins JK--Song so good you overlook stupid "world is a vampire"
opening line
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Matilda by Alt-J from An Awesome Wave
JK--Is this Devendra Banhart under pseudonym?
Now that we don't have
to worry about them overturning Obamacare, we can plan our family healthcare
coverage accordingly
Romney should be delighted
that Supreme Court upheld the federal law inspired by his Massachusetts
Obamacare. The law of
the land. As it should be. Thank you Supreme Court for not caving to fools.
"Supreme Ct
upholds entire health care law" (http://bit.ly/Lw74tL)
JK--Next step is TParty question birth cert validity of majority justices
Got email from
"Sir Harry Morgan." Probably spam. Also got from "Duke McLean
Stevenson," "Baron Alan Alda," & "King Gary
Burghoff."
"Google vs
everyone: epic war on many fronts" (http://gigaom.com/2012/06/27/google-vs-everyone/)
JK--Google, as in "gurgle," like oldschool media drowning in digital
Good idea to keep
one's media consumption habits fluid. Media, channels, options, techs, gadgets,
etc...everything changing too fast.
Carl Sagan kept boxes
labeled "F/C" for "fissured ceramics." Letters from
crackpots.
Don't turn your #CRM engagements into rules of customer
entanglement & enstranglement.
@Princey "Decision
science" is theme in behavioral sciences, which are scientific subj
domains. "Data science" is heart of scientific method
@CurtMonash @sarahcuda "Alas!" What Mr. Bull says
when he lays those languid eyes on pulchritudinous Ms. Cow
@LoraineLawson What's that got to do with patriotism?
Is the most patriotic thing to go out of biz from high domestic labor costs?
"Semi-Structurd
data analytics: Relational or Hadoop?" (http://bit.ly/MBCalr)
JK--Semi-str can B xformed 2 relationl or loaded raw into HDFS
President Obama:
Romney would be “outsourcer in chief” (http://bit.ly/MBBqwG)
JK--Huh? Since when is outsource-offshoring unpatriotic?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Earth Intruders by Bjork from Volta
JK--Should team with Yoko Ono on LP of folksongs from their native planet
"Orbitz
Controversy: Tip O #BigData Iceberg" (http://bit.ly/MBAjgs)
JK--Net-net, online travel site steering Mac users 2 next worst offers
"Is Hadoop
Another Enterprise
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Lust for Life by Iggy Pop JK--Big-ass
bouncy beat from the uber-punk in an oddly life-affirming classic rock romp
@Princey What's
a "decision scientist"?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Cherokee by Cat Power from Sun
JK--First 2 tracks from forthcoming LP are terrific. Feels like a blockbuster
album
Myth #10: Data
scientists don't have any operational responsibilities that require them to
come down from their ivory towers.
Myth #9: Data
scientists are just analytics junkies who mainline Big Data all day and
couldn't care less about business applications.
Myth #8: Data
scientists simply pour gobs o data into Hdp clustrs, slap a little Pig/MR on
prblm, &--voila!--mindblowing insights spew forth
Myth #7: Data
scientists need fancy, expensive, frighteningly complex statistical power tools
to get their work done.
Myth #6: Data
scientists aren't scientists in any meaningful sense of the word.
Myth #5: Data
scientists are just longtime BI specialists whose employers gave them a fancier
title in lieu of a pay raise.
Myth #4: Data
scientists are all Ph.D statisticians and/or particle physicists who failed to
make tenure.
Myth #3: Data
scientists are some sort of nouveau fad that will soon fade.
Myth #2: Data
scientists are just an elite bunch of precious eggheads.
Myth #1: Data
scientists are themselves mythical beings, like the unicorns.
Drafted next week's #IBM blog: "Next week's blog:
"Data Scientist: Myths and Mathemagical Superpowers". Catch it on
Monday or so
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Shrine / An Argument by Fleet
Foxes from Helplessness Blues JK--Song should be sung from the highest mountain
top
Today's #IBM #Netezza FB JK quickhit: "Smartphones as #BigDataanalytics
plat? Gadgets becoming valuable data srcs" (http://on.fb.me/KDwnKP)
"How #BigData could save cities from outgrowing
themselves" (http://bit.ly/KDvJNn) JK--Fueled by sensor nets
& social feedback loops
"Is digital
marketing technology being abused?" (http://bit.ly/KKmuzx)
JK--Too much pushy "engagement" makes the customer feel strangled
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp 23 Minutes in Brussels
" #IBM Anjul Bhambhri: #BigData ‘Journey’ Starts
w/Experimentation" (http://bit.ly/KDumhz) JK--Data scientists
interactiv explor in sandbxes
"Standards Needed
2 Fulfill Vision 4 #BigData Researchers" (http://bit.ly/KDu1eE)
JK--NIST workshop on stds 4 secure cross-domain data share
Good. Got thru
breakfast without tweeting word "#Hadoop".
Oops!
"Social Influencers
Are Dead – Long Live the Instigators" (http://dannybrown.me/2012/06/26/social-influencers-instigators/)
JK--Really? Who instigated their death?
"Royal Society
wants Britain
My next #IBM blog will be called "Data
Scientist: Myths & Mathemagical Superpowers"
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Capricornia by Allo Darlin' from
Europe JK--A happy summer-pop song.
"Social Security:
Mother o All Big Data Projects Turns 75" (http://ibm.co/MTzhOY) JK--#IBM 077 Collator: machine that made Soc
Sec a reality
RIP Nora Ephron. Among
other accomplishments, wrote the most famous faked orgasm in cinema history (http://youtu.be/FZluzt3H6tk)
"100 Petabytes of
Data in Poop?" (http://bit.ly/MT7ONu) JK--If that's what you're
dumping in your #Hadoop cluster, please keep your distance
In reality there are
no "myths" about #BigData.
Just popular mithunderthtandingth.
Article in Financial
Times said Van Dyke Parks joined by Robin Pecknold & Daniel Rossen in London
Weekend "Sleepy
Theory" (http://youtu.be/KlTvmcKwyr0) JK--"Disturbing
dream the environmnt changes piped music haunts their sleeping places"
"Skills required
4 Data Scientist?" (http://linkd.in/Mofadn) JK--"Curiosity,
desire to explore, quickness of wit, ability to explain"
"Dispelling the
"big data" myth" (http://zd.net/Moe95b) JK--Article is
aggressively dumb on many levels.
"IBM’s Predictive
Model Approach to Decisions" (http://bit.ly/ModTTQ) JK-- @marksmithvr discussion of #IBM Analytical Decision Management.
Brief business trip to
Atlanta Atlanta
"Fleetwood Mac's
'Rumours' at 35: Still the 'perfect album'" (http://bit.ly/KLDRQt)
JK--Trivia: co-producer was Colbie Caillat's father.
Dragas supports
reinstatement of President Sullivan. IT'S OVER! REASON WON!
New #IBM blogpost: "Make Turing Proud:
Next Best Action in Multichannel Conversations" (http://bit.ly/MYGcCK)
Today's #IBM #Netezza FB JK quickhit: "Hadoop
uber-alles? Disappointed there's no grand vision 4 #Hadoop evolution" (http://on.fb.me/MYFtkZ)
Advised @graemeknows not 2 flag "humor" as
separat section o#analyzingmedia. Must B integral/organic. Programmd
yuck-yucks often suck-suck
@gerryvz Even
when they sort of made sense, o-o-o msgs often implied "I've got a good
excuse for ignoring your message."
Food is now folowed
from farm to fork. Let's build a #Sma @ Ronald Reagan Washington National
Airport (DCA) http://instagr.am/p/MV-E0xg3Q7/
How does that follow?
I reply in great depth thru all channels.
Out-of-office messages
are essentially meaningless in the age of smartphones when you have 24x7 access
to work email. Office is in yr pocket
"Corporate
Superstar: the Chief Digital Officer" (http://bit.ly/MyB3D8)
JK--Yep. There's no future in being Chief Analog Officer.
Good chat with @graemeknows . I'll be contributing fresh stuff
with CMO focus on a biweekly basis to http://analyzingmedia.com .
Does the preacher
influence the choir? Rarely. Both are influenced by the religious context. Preacher
calls it forth. Choir responds.
Wasn't just cool last
night. It was cold! Had to scrounge up a blanket. But I loved it. Slept
extravagantly well.
Singer Shirley Manson
of band Garbage now wears bright red hair in severe bun. That + her pallid
complexion suit her 4 role o Nurse Ratched
That's a sparkling
June afternoon here in northern Virginia
New #IBM blogpost: "Week's Worth of Koby
Quick Hits: June 18 - 22, 2012" (http://bit.ly/MLfz8k)
Slow day. Got half a
mind to concoct a bunch of new #BigData urban myths and then debunk them. Just
for the hell of it.
I soured on the late
Joseph Campbell's work ages ago when he failed to acknowledge the #BigData myths of our Neanderthal ancestors
Links to my #BigData mythbusting blogs: http://bit.ly/KYVZDdhttp://bit.ly/NrBQZr
Today's #IBM #Netezza FB JK quick-hit: "Sexy
statistics? Influence scores are dangerously addictive" (http://on.fb.me/La36c6)
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Blood Makes Noise by Suzanne Vega from
99.9 FA JK--Even in an anechoic chamber. Blood makes noise in your ears.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ruin by Cat Power from Sun JK--This
great singer-songwriter long-overdue for massive radio hit. Hope this is it.
"10 Signs U May
Have Unhealthy Relationship w/Social Media" (http://bit.ly/KT3rEq)
JK--Forgot: you imagine all your "friends" got your back
"Why we owe it
all 2 Turing" (http://bit.ly/MjEi4U) JK--Infinite regress o
Turing Machines running on Turing Machines basis 4 virtualization
"Is modern tech
creating culture of distraction?' (http://bit.ly/MvvIMU)
JK--Uh..um...just a sec...hold on...could you repeat the question?
Starting to see the
summer doldrums set in. Much of the "fresh" tech commentary on the
'Net is reruns.
"If you don't
advertise yself, you will B advertised by yr loving enemies." - Elbert
Hubbard (1856-1915). JK--And be confused w/cult founder
"How Alan Turing
set the rules for computing" (http://bit.ly/MjB6pY)
JK--But breaking Enigma showed clear killer app for computing: crypto.
Dear "One Weird
Trick" display-ad purveyors: If that's what helps me sleep, will you play
a weird trick on me in my sleep? I don't trust you
Next Fiona Apple album
will have just one track: her singing the album title in its entirety.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Weight by Aretha Franklin frm This
Girls in Love W/ You JK--First lady o soul nails Band classic. Make no cracks
Dilbert -- "I'm
experienced..." (http://bit.ly/KxNJbS) JK--OK to be a reliable
jerk. Delivering on promises makes workplace go round.
Best crack I've heard
about Sandusky verdict: "from Penn State
I finger-flick the
TweetDeck column in my Android devices like it's Wheel of Fortune. See where it
ends up. Glance at that. Repeat.
Interesting how some
old friends who are on socials 24x7 are just now realizing I changed jobs a few
months ago. Haven't kept it a secret.
Early Summer. I love
the expectancy. The prospect of many lazy days and nights. Heat even adds a
touch of the lazy to all my busyness.
Browsing the sights
and planning our Pacific Northwest vacation
next week. Up & down the Puget Sound .
WSJ headline
"Germany Celebrates Greek Exit" w/photo o Angela Merkel overhead
2-hand fistpump. Exit Euro zone? No. Euro 2012 soccer qtrfinal
The older I get, the
more I experience life as just a daily buildup and release of stresses. Both
buldup & release can be pleasurable.
Don't control channels
they tune overhead monitors 2 at club. Try 2 avoid ones on Fox News. Irritation
is counterproductive to good workout
If DNA is "tape" in Turing
machine calld "life," then Turing test is blind-distinguish lifelike
behavior agent: organic vs inorganic entity
