April 2008
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My Backcountry Ski Jaunt
My brother lives in Squaw Valley, CA and I trekked up there this weekend for a couple of day trips skiing in the backcountry. I definitely don’t do enough backcountry skiing- but I don’t do enough of a lot of things, so this was a weekend to savor for another year. Climbing on skis is totally different from every other activity I do. It is incredibly high energy, but extremely slow...
Just When I’d Concluded that Twitter is Utterly... →
Moira Gunn’s Tech Nation podcast covers a lot of ground and has some great interviews. One of the most interesting I have heard in a long time was with NYU professor Clay Shirky, who wrote a…
Three’s a Charm for the Social Graph →
Clearly it is “social networks on the brain” day. Here’s my third and final post of the day on the topic.
I just read Brad Feld’s post about Loic LeMeur’s post (whew!) about his distributed…
March 2008
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Why is Facebook the Place I Have the Most Friends,... →
I write this blog, I have a tumblog/lifestream at www.park3.org, a Twitter account and a Facebook page. These are my principal forums for self-expression on the web. I’ll come right out and…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30) →
Academy of Ancient Music, The
George Szell, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra & Choir
Norah Jones
MF DOOM
Julian Bream
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-30 →
park3: 20 mph on the highway, getting buzzed by lanesharing motorcycles. Man, Harleys are WIDE
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Weak Lensing Distorts the Universe →
Weak Lensing Distorts the Universe
Is the distant universe really what it appears to be? Astronomers hope not. Intervening dark matter, which is normally invisible, might show its presence…
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-29 →
park3: Exercising underused backcountry ski muscles. Completely shattered by a not-at-all epic day
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My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-28 →
park3: @seeger That is super cool! Maybe right after Dubya gets off The Google he can post to The Twitter
park3: a friend recently married her partner in an SF civil ceremony & Australia…
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Classical Guitar Week Elena Papandreou, Roland...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-27 →
park3: amazon mp3 has finally got me off the buy-rip-return habit at my local record shop. That and I ran out of return credits
park3: Dear tech support person: if you are going to say you…
Exclusive First Look: Masi SoulVille SS | Commute... →
Really pretty single speed cruiser bike from Masi. I’d call it a cafe racer but they already have a different model with that name. Either way, it’s fun to see a company nail a product. The neo-retro styling is clean, simple and striking. Nice.
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Classical Guitar Week David Tanenbaum, Steve...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-26 →
park3: Channeling … umm, pranalog.com: breathed 600 times in 60 minutes. Did a bunch of asanas too
park3: Xray techs put hard copy film in their outbox. Nurse ignores them and pulls up…
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“Dave showed up. Turns out he was late because of a missing bike, and a bus ride...”
– Harlan: On Bike, Dave shows up, Apocalypse Now I’ve never met Harlan Price or his friend Dave. I like the bikes he rides a lot, though. The post is from Granada, Spain, where I spent a summer as a teenager. I liked that a lot, too.
“Do, or do not. There is no try.”
– I say this to my kids all the time when they say they’ll “try” to make their beds, etc. It’s funny that a hackneyed, prosaic directive becomes a spiritual touchstone just by fracturing the syntax. But hey, work it does. -Jay Yoda via One More Thought on Getting A VC’s...
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Classical Guitar Week Christopher Parkening,...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-25 →
park3: @rafer that is super cool
park3: Switched to Disqus on my blog. It’s great that all the spam comments just never show up anywhere. Take that, cheap percocet blog!
park3: lunch at…
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Classical Guitar Week cont. John Williams, Astor...
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market — HBS... →
Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge newsletter is one of my favorite regular reads. This recent article teases apart market segments in a smart way.
Finding Success in the Middle of the…
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-24 →
park3: switching to digest version of the email list I’m on. Too many posts with not enough substance
park3: really tired today. Realizing how hard I worked at ridethetrack.com racing on…
ESPN: The worldwide leader in selling ads solo? »... →
Ads are the backbone of the Internet. Without them the “content is free” ethos would be entirely a lost cause. The ins and outs of who sells ads on the internet and who benefits from them is as…
“When I was in a line-out in the gutter in a race in Belgium or somewhere like...”
– sean kelly « Ira Ryan Cycles
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Francisco Tarrega (composer), Narciso Yepes...
What Happens Online When a Person Dies in Real... →
This post is a little macabre. It is also personal and I am having trouble sorting through my feelings in a coherent way, but need to get a few thoughts out of my head regardless. Apologies in…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-23) →
Saccani, Rico; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Maria Dragoni; Kristjan Johannsson
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
The Beatles
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
Velodrome Love
This is a GPS-tracked record of my afternoon spent track racing. It’s pretty safe to say that GPS is less useful for riding-around-in-ovals activities than some others.The part at the bottom shows how hard I was working. I raced 5 times and my heart rate was at close to 190 for almost all of them. Fun stuff.
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-21 →
park3: Dear bike light: where the *#!$ are you?
park3: saw a really beautiful moonset, and took the most atrocious camera-phone photo of it
park3: Got a call from a “private citizen”…
What Needs to Go in My Business Plan? →
I have read many business plans from clients and friends over the years, and helped write more than a few. I have strong opinions about what works and what doesn’t and I have been mulling a post on…
On Raising an Angel Round for Your Startup →
Here is a thoughtful post on raising money from angel investors. Author Charlie O’Donnell points out that it is really the same process as any other kind of networking- get out and meet people in…
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DJ Reset, Beck, Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams -...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-20 →
park3: ugh- max occupancy of my bed last night exceeded by one 3 year-old. how can a 3ft tall person take up so much space?
park3: Overheard from my 9 year-old: oh yeah, I saw that movie on…
Did Google trick Verizon into spending billions... →
The 700 Mhz spectrum auction results were revealed today. The big winner? Verizon Wireless, which took the largest chunk of the sought-after C-block according to The Wall Street Journal. But…
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Tabla Beat Science - Biotech. Electronic with...
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Another Lawyer Joke
See here for the first one: ————- A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of ten million bucks. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would not hear anything that he might have to testify about in court. When the Godfather goes to confront the bookkeeper about his...
Thoughts about whether Obama should or shouldn't...
What he said. This whole brouhaha is silly. bijan: There has been a loud response to Obama’s speech on race. You can find opinions everywhere. Fundamentally, I think that if you were against Obama before the Rev Wright statements than you are still are against him and nothing is going to change that. I do believe the speech was aimed at those that are undecided and those that were in the...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-19 →
park3: today is the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War. Some milestones shouldn’t be celebrated
park3: @parrishioner I was really into them in college
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DJ Shadow - The Number Song. I’ll be...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-18 →
park3: ok tell me again. The OJ carton is made so that its top can be opened up to pour. So why is there a plastic spout stuck in the side as well?
park3: dear spammers- please know that…
tartley.com » The Long Overdue LinkedIn Backlash →
This is a great read. The author penned a scathing Linkedin “recommendation” of another user, pointing out in the process that Linkedin is built only to allow positive reviews, which makes the…
The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers. I...
Meebo raising round, valued up to $250 million.... →
The headline from VentureBeat captures the spirit of the times just about perfectly. Meebo, the IM-in-a-browser company that is “starting to focus on making money” is looking to raise a chunk of…
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-17 →
park3: printing the 5th draft of a 25 page agreement. Must find a way to go paper-neutral
park3: yeesh. wrote a snide email, then cut it back to semi-snide. Recipient sent it on to the…
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life. Last week was a bad...
News media needs to have consumers pay →
The headline here is direct from the SFGate.com article linked below. It isn’t exactly a revelation, but the article has some interesting tidbits- such as that print journalists are figuring out…