Mad Men and GSD&M – An Inconvenient History

Update 27 May 2012: When I first posted this in 2007, I asked the question “Where are all the Mad Women?” and tonight’s episode of Mad Men, “The Other Woman” answered that. “Finally, someone beautiful, with talent and a caring heart, takes an almost impossible step toward a career, and a life well lived.” Here’s [...]

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Lincoln’s Birthday

Factoid: Lincoln was asked by his own party to step down and not run for re-election in 1864. Commented on HuffPost: Why Judd Gregg’s Change of Heart Was a Birthday Present to Lincoln’s Protégé – “Thanks for the refreshing post, running somewhat against the grain of most of the splinter heads in the media (take [...]

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Taking Risks: Roosevelt in Paris 1910

The credit belongs to the man in the arena…

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Food for Thought

For a brief moment during the campaign, reformers thought Barack Obama might include agriculture in the “agenda of change” he would take to Washington. He told TIME magazine that the way we produce our food “is partly contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge [...]

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Heinlein Lives On

For myself, I never tended to goosestep into pushing the writings, or personal life of Heinlein into a cookie cutter corner of human thought or political persuasion. To me, the basic Heinlein is enough: Hard Work, excessive logical thought, and extreme appreciation of sexy science or logical beauty, and pragmatism above all else. Authority? The authority at the ‘platoon’ level is plenty to run several universes (20 or so). Loyalty? To the person next to you, in the trench or cube. God? Let’s talk.

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Knowledge Networking

…What we (myself and my colleagues) are really pursuing is better described as Knowledge Networking…The discovery, cataloging, organization and caretaking of knowledge resources is a more holistic pursuit of information management, collaboration, and synergy, as practiced by professionals with multiple skills background, and their feet in many rooms…that’s Real Life Networking that will keep me working (and contributing) far longer, and will help us all do all the green things that are important.

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Forty Four Years – JFK

On November 22, 1963, I was in my high school General Science class 16 miles south of the Texas School Book Depository. Today, I drive by Dealy Plaza on my home from work. There are always lots of tourists standing around, talking, pointing, taking pictures. As I pick my way through the intersection, I see [...]

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Good Grief Charlie Schulz

After viewing the 2002 American Masters program on PBS last night, I started early this morning looking for more information on what I now recognize in Peanuts as the single most important cultural feature influencing my youth and quest for maturity. Sounds impressive and self important, huh? In grade school and high school, I was [...]

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You Go, Gore!

We awoke this morning to the news that Washington Post reported the following: Friday, October 12, 2007; 8:32 AM – Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize ‘Former vice president Al Gore and a United Nations panel that monitors climate change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for their work educating the world [...]

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‘Nuff Said – Theodore Roosevelt

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