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| Wednesday, May 7, 2003 |
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You aren't there 
| | By the way, if our Moon were in Mercury's orbit and also transited the Sun, it would look about the same. Likewise, if Mercury were revolving around Earth in the Moon's orbit, it would look only a bit bigger: 4880 km in diameter, vs. 3474 km for the Moon. If Pluto were in the same orbit, it would look smaller. At 2390 km, Pluto is smaller than seven different moons. |
| | The kid and I talk about this kind of stuff all the time and my head is packed with of it; so I thought I'd let a little spill over into the blog. |
Raed between the lines
| | Salam is back with a long accumulated post. A chunk: |
| | The truth is, if it weren¹t for intervention this would never have happened. When we were watching the Saddam statue being pulled down, one of my aunts was saying that she never thought she would see this day during her lifetime. |
| | War. No matter what the outcome is. These things leave a trail of destruction behind them. There were days when the Red Crescent was begging for volunteers to help in taking the bodies of dead people off the city street and bury them properly. The hospital grounds have been turned to burial grounds when the electricity went out and there was no way the bodies can be kept until someone comes and identifies. |
| | I confess to the sin of being an escapist. When reality hurts I block it out, unless it comes right up to me and knocks me cold. My mother, after going out once after Baghdad was taken by the US Army, decided she is not going out again, not until I promise it looks kind of normal and OK. So I guess the Ostrich maneuver runs in the family. |
| | Things are looking kind of OK, these days. Life has a way of moving on. Your senses are numbed, things stop shocking you. If there is one thing you should believe in, it is that life will find a way to push on, humans are adaptable, that is the only way to explain how such a foolish species has kept itself on this planet without wiping itself out. Humans are very adaptable, physically and emotionally. |
| | and I also confess that I am going thru massive internet withdrawal symptoms. |
| | So here are what should have been 15 entries to the blog, for whatever it is worth. |
| | Read through the whole thing. It's worth more than any week of the usual on CNN and Fox. |
| | And thanks to Lou for the pointer. |
Right out
| | During the fall they endured forces as strong as 8 to 10 times that of gravity, leaving them wheezing for breath, their tongues forced deep toward their throats and their bodies pushed deep into their seats. |
| | "For a moment it felt like I was Atlas and I had the whole weight of the world on my shoulders," Dr. Pettit said today. |
| | The capsule bumped to earth on the Kazakh steppes and tipped on its side, the astronauts said, leaving the crew hanging almost as if from the ceiling, too weak to extricate themselves for close to an hour. |
| | Able at last to "ooze" from the ship, as Dr. Pettit put it, the crew simply lay on the spring grass, drinking in the smells and view. |
| | [Later...] Says here things didn't go all that wrong. |
All the news that's fit to sell
| | Says here Aaron Brown of CNN has been hired to appear in newslike videos paid for by drug makers and other health care companies. |
The Continuing Death of Advertising as Usual
| | Having just wrapped up two years in an agency environment, I say "make it so." It¹s one of the things I found most frustrating about the experience: the "value-substracting costs" as Doc delicately puts it, or the sheer waste of agencies as I¹d be more inclined to say. |
| | Why does Searls feel the need to do this? It's one thing to overhype Overture's success (revenues may have been up, but earnings were down considerably ), it's quite another to insist that it's a sign of the impending end of traditional media. |
| | Does anyone still believe this nonsense? |
| | Call it wishful blogging. |
| | Or hell, prophesy. Give advertisers efficient and accountable advertising that their customers (who are still only the media's consumers) actually like, and the marketplace will take care of the rest. Give it time. |
| | [Later...] Some readers have pointed out that Google and Overture are vastly different companies, and that Overture's |
Blogs as classifieds, cont'd
| | Have you built and maintained your own server? Are you someone who built a Linux box and runs your own Sendmail, Apache, Tomcat, spam filtering? Do you tinker with things like web hit log reporting tools, etc? Do you enjoy admin'ing all the tools and learning how they all work? I should be able to talk about Linux, Unix, Apache, Sendmail, HTTP, HTML, XML, PKI, Perl, Python, and get the sense that you are an obsessive tinkerer at heart. |
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