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| Thursday, June 27, 2002 |
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Link of the day 
| | Scott Heiferman's new Meetup. Looks cool. Scott will be at the e-ThePeople event where I'm a Featured Guest this evening (scroll down to yesterday for details). Afterwards I'm gonna meet up with Scott, Clay, Nick (linked below) and others at another caféwalking kinda thing, I understand. |
Goes to show what can happen if you just give things time.
| | Last night after we got in, and replaced the clothes on our sweat-soaked bodies (it's kinda hot in New Yawk), we went out for some local Chinese and began warwalking around midtown — "war" being wireless access reconnaissance. I was hoping somebody had been warchalking ahead of us. Didn't see evidence of that; but we lucked out anyway. |
| | It happened in the lobby of the the Park Central Hotel, in which there stood an easel reminding PC Expo attendees that a shuttle would be running to the Javits Center. |
| | PC Expo! I had forgotten it was even on. |
| | So here I am, in the press room at PC Expo, looking out across the Hudson at the Palisades and the rest of New Jersey. |
| | Down to the South is Jersey City, where I was born. Up to the right is Fort Lee, where my family was living at the time, and where my father grew up. Beyond that, the George Washington Bridge, which he helped build. |
| | The Palisades are a vast slab of diabase granite that intruded between layers of older rock sometime in the Triassic, when Pangea was pulling apart and the Atlantic began opening right about where I'm sitting. As I recall, other bits of the same business include Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and parts of the Aral mountains Africa. |
In case you still can't figure out this Palladium business,
Because the world is so perfectly fucked up (there really is a fine balance involved),
I dunno about you but...
| | I'm trying to figure which is more dumb... hiding overhead in captial expenses and not expecting to get caught, or being the accountants who don't catch it. |
| | If you're the sole employer of professionals in your locality, chances are you can keep fraud quiet for longer. People may have hometown loyalties, as did many of Bernie Ebbers' executives; they have few other job opportunities, so there is pressure to toe the company line; they're less likely to be headhunted, so fewer chances to spill the beans to a competitor; and it's easier to fool Wall Street and the press if you're a plane ride away. Enron used to be able to fill up a trading room with yacking, gesticulating traders, as a show for visiting analysts; that is difficult to sustain in a place like Manhattan, where visitors are much more common. |
And I still miss the place
Strikes a chaord
| | The Chaordic Commons just came to my attention, but I can't get the site to come up. I've read much of Dee Hock's The Chaordic Age (the "chaordic" adjective it his, I believe), and can guess what it's about (and that I'd like it, probably). To put Dee in perspective, consider your Visa card. That was his idea. |
Fuckin' J
| |  Well, we're here. Drove out of Santa Barbara at 3:15am and arrived in Midtown Manhattan at about 7pm. The airport drives at each end were longer than the flight from L.A. to Denver. It took longer to get through the Lincoln Tunnel from Newark Airport than it took to get from Santa Barbara to LAX. And our flight from Denver to Newark parked over Illinois for about an hour (that's the picture on the left), to avoid thunderstorms on approach to Newark. Then, on our semi-final approach, at 7000 feet over Allentown, while we were bouncing through thunderclouds, the pilot told us that we would need to hold for an hour at that altitude, in the midst of heavy weather, and that we might need to land for fuel if the hold continued beyond that time. But suddenly air traffic control gave us a break and fifteen minutes after that we were on the ground in my home state, New Fuckin' Jersey, best fuckin' state in the country. And after that fuckin' flight, it really looked that way. |
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