Month: March 2009

1-year check-up of my new neck. Doc says it’s working perfectly. Too perfectly — still a good thing — I need carpal tunnel surgery next wk

Good to be in L.A. for docs. Having dinner with my old friend Bill Pruitt, exec. producer hunting war criminals for NBC: http://bit.ly/iTHNI

@gailbronson No, for both hands. Had it before, couldn’t feel it. Now that my neck works, my hands are a mess.

Dining in Beverly Hills at Real Food Daily, a vegan place. Just ordering-don’t know from began. What to have?

1-year check-up of my new neck. Doc says it’s working perfectly. Too perfectly — still a good thing — I need carpal tunnel surgery next wk

Good to be in L.A. for docs. Having dinner with my old friend Bill Pruitt, exec. producer hunting war criminals for NBC: http://bit.ly/iTHNI

@gailbronson No, for both hands. Had it before, couldn’t feel it. Now that my neck works, my hands are a mess.

Dining in Beverly Hills at Real Food Daily, a vegan place. Just ordering-don’t know from began. What to have?

News: US govt agencies cleared to use social tools, like YouTube and Flickr, for dealing with contractors and citizens. http://bit.ly/14MgQ

Some baseball blogging: Mariners GM faces his big test: Pitching contracts and non-roster break-out Chris Jakubauskas. http://bit.ly/190HX8

Great final game of the World Baseball Classic — tied in the 9th. Fantastic play.

@Buzzmodo You don’t think million-dollar bonuses would be good for everyone?

@Buzzmodo But if *everyone* got bonuses ("what’s good for Wall St. is good for us") that would be peachy. Of course, bread would cost $150

At Wells-Fargo to see biz banker – Food Network and Nirvana playing on TV and Muzak. TV in a bank? Cobain sings "I don’t have a gun."

Interesting story on the potential and challenges of science blogging supplanting science journalism in Nature: http://bit.ly/eBwfx

@marciamarcia post-transactional polling, e.g. "thanks for your [transaction – could be anything] How’d you hear about us." no big tricks

There should be a name for the auto-followback ratio of "gurus" that turn spammers into powerhouses. "He has a high crap propellent ratio."

It is a lot easier to write when Twitter is off. Tuning out.

I would like to see any AIG bonus recipient who "made their numbers" selling insurance on a 50-1 leveraged mortgages kicked by goats