Thursday, January 19, 2006
The wide tale
No need for me to take notes at the SDForum, where Steve Larsen of Krugle is covering the show like a blanket. Watching for more. Including the closing talk I'm prepping to give, even as I blog.
Earth: Wet, infested with humans
A forewarn from the forarmed
BBC: A man who wrongly parked in a disabled parking space at a supermarket had his throat cut by a genuine disabled driver, a court has heard.
Except you still want to keep bookstores
Jeff Jarvis: Streaming is to video as bookstores are to books.
Bonus link: Kevin Marks. Having built this technology, I started looking for uses for it, and was rather bemused to find there weren't any.
Settings
Sunrise and sunset in Santa Barbara. The latter series was shot at the airport, behind the rental car facility where I picked up a Chevy Cobalt (the new Cavalier) before driving up to Santa Clara, where I'll attend a conference today before driving straight back home.
That whole series was shot through a chain link fence. I had no choice about using telephoto for a full-sunset shot of the sky, since that was also the only way of narrowing the camera's view through a chain-hole. Came out pretty well, considering.
On the way out, I was talking on the cell to my old friend David Beaver, perhaps the world's leading authority on magic (which he'll prove to us all once we get him blogging). Among other things, we discussed Searls' First Law of Car Rental, which says
It doesn't matter what kind of car you want to rent. You're going to get a Chevy Cavalier.
Problem is, Chevy no longer makes the Cavalier. Its new Cavalier is the Chevy Cobalt. Since you get these after they promise you a different car — in Budget's case, a "Ford Focus or similar" — I beleve Chevy missed the chance to properly name the car. It should have been the Chevy Similar.
Credit where due: It's a better car than the Cavalier. Although I couldn't figure out where the cruise control was. Turned out it was buried in the radio controls in the steering wheel (does anybody ever use those?). That was after I got ticketed for speeding in King City. That finally got me off the phone with David (with whom I hadn't caught up in 22 years).
Warning to drivers of Highway 101: King City and Santa Maria.
The cop told me I would pass four more traps on my way into King City. I only saw one of them.
Two out of two ain't bad
Mainly, I want to make you laugh — and to get paid for it. Debra Galant of Baristanet, in Pressthink.
Moore's Corollary
Goeff Moore: Intel needs to convert from a competition culture where only the paranoid survive to a collaboration culture which trusts first and plays tit-for-tat later.
Bait taken
Our first guest is a lovely and talented blogger who has forgotten more about advertising than most of us will ever know. He writes for beyond madison avenue and makes a helluva lotta sense. Let's give it up for Mark Collier!
[Later... Woops. Make that MACK Collier. Sorry, dude.]
Liverwolf Meltdown
That's the name of a band that came to me in my sleep a few minutes ago.
I wanted to see what they played but thought I'd better just get the name right.
What toppings do they have?
Bloggingdelivered. The new AT&T.
That's what a billboard told me, somewhere near Salinas.