March 21, 2009
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A capella wonderful
Whatever else you’re doing, tune right now to WERS. If you’re not in Boston, here’s the online stream. The show is All Acapella, and it’s freaking amazing. There is so much outstanding a capella music being made right now, by college students alone. Stevie Wonder’s “As” is playing now, sung by the Stanford University Everyday… Continue reading
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Collateral casualties from blog spam bomb
I just deleted a heap of blog spam comments. I think I may have hit one or two legit ones in the process. If so, forgive and try again. Continue reading
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An open response to OMNI hotels
Just got a survey from OMNI hotels, inquiring about my stay there during SXSW in Austin earlier this week. Here’s what I wrote under “Please provide more details on the missing amenity in your guest room. “: The wi-fi signal strength went up and down, and most of the time was unusable. Twice I… Continue reading
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There is no try, cont’d
Props to Joe Andrieu for pointing out the Cult of Done, for which I am constitutionally disqualified, but wish I were not. Why? Because I: 1) Bite off more than I can eschew, 2) Keep more balls on the floor than anybody I know, and 3) Plan for my epitaph to read “He was almost… Continue reading
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Information Age dawn still breaking
It’s fun to fact-check a futurist when plenty of future has already gone by. Here’s some of what Alvin Toffler wrote thirty years ago in The Third Wave: Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaging in buiding… Continue reading