Excuse me if this doesn't make any sense, I'm a bit endorphin high. I just got finished mowing the front lawn -- with an electric push-mower.
The lawn has been a battle. We discontinued last year's lawn service because they were doing things that we asked them not to do, resulting in large dirt patches in our lawn. So this year, with no service, our lawn has been growing uncontrolled, much to the chagrin of our mower-loving neighbors.
The riding mower that came with our house has a dead battery from the kids leaving the headlights on (why does the mower have these?) so I tried for a good bit this afternoon to get that working again, to no avail. And in the end, I bought a new corded electric push-mower from Home Depot. It's corded, because the battery on the last one went kaput. Speaking of going crazy while mowing the lawn, Bill Clinton called me today. Don't believe me?Bill! more
I've been avoiding the political beat for quite a while, because every time I dig in, I end up losing interest in defending my position. Don't consider this return to politics a desire to stand fast with the opinions presented here - I just read something (especially the comments) on Philly Future this morning that got to me, and something needed to be said. This is the comment I posted, which I hope will see a different audience by re-posting here. Enjoy, and read it before you post a comment so that I don't have to call you names.
(Thanks to Brian, who helped produce a good bit of this text during a conversation we had over IM quite a while ago.)
The bush amendment was a constitutional enshrining of a Bill Clinton act. Bill Clinton- Democratic, caring, socially liberal wonderboy. ...
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Firas started asking questions about social networking, and I was going to write a little but ended up writing a lot. So I moved it here. Here we go:
The issue that I see with existing social networking sites is that they all exhibit the problem you're discussing. That is, after you've created this network of friends (and who knows why you've bothered to do this in the first place) there really isn't any point other than accumulating more "friends".
Some of the sites are targetted toward a specific purpose, like recruiting or seeking work. But I don't see many of the more popular social networks doing anything like this. It's as if the whole point is to say you know more people than anyone else.
Part of the problem is that social networking has turned group topology upside-down. Traditionally, you join groups with common interests, then gather friends with those interests. In the new social networking model, it seems like joining a group is ancillary to adding more friends to your list. more
I've been buying Pepsi for the past few weeks because they've been running this "Every 10 Minutes" campaign in which they give away an XBox 360 before you can get it in stores.
Basically, you buy a bottle of soda, take the orange cap off, and enter the code underneath into their web site. After you've entered all the codes you have, you need to pick a time. I actually didn't realize that I had to choose a time myself, I just thought that I was entered for the current running drawing. So when I finally chose my 10-minute span, I had quite a few points to allocate to that time.
Well, I checked my time last week before I left for France. I looked at the Winner's Board for the time that I had signed up for, 10:00am. No winner. Hmm... more
Mandy Coulton is one of the iPod silhouette people. She can't afford an iPod with the $1500 she was paid, but maybe her venture capitalist husband can.
