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

once digital, what difference is there between a news story and a short fiction, besides genre? Their presentation has defined until now.

RT @dberlind: @robhof Twitter’s biz Sit on the fastest growing community on the Web until someone else pays for the right to monetize it

Nicely done online component of Pearl Jam’s 10th Anniversary of "10" release: http://www.pearljamtengame.com/

@trishussey Congrats!

There’s something charming about seeing a baseball breaking a window outside the WBC Mexico stadium. Brings it back to vacant lots and kids.

@petershaplen it’ll be faster in two weeks, when the come do what they said I could do myself, but couldn’t

fingers burning, brain ablaze. writing a bit at a time, because it hurts