January 2010 Twenty-eight posts

• 19-Jan-2010

  
  Downed big rig (from December 2009) Back in December there was some pretty impressive weather around here. I had never seen a big rig truck downed by weather before. The traffic after it was scary. We’re glad we weren’t out in the weather when the snow came down so hard.

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• 18-Jan-2010
  Mark Cuban’s counterintuitive take on NBC’s talk show moves Mark Cuban has a counterintuitive take on the changes NBC tried with regards to late night tv in his latest post: Why are we condemning Jeff Zucker & NBC over Leno? In today’s corporate world, if you don’t take the risks, you don’t get skewered on blogs, on cable news, in the newspaper. Public condemnation...

  businesstv
• 18-Jan-2010

  
  Jacob Lake Campground At Christmastime, which Leah and I spent in Kanab, Utah with family, I drove south towards the north rim of the Grand Canyon. I took a few photos on the drive. Kanab’s elevation is 4,970 feet — there was a very slight amount of snow on the cliffs near Kanab and lingering in the town...

  Arizonaarthistorytravelutah
• 18-Jan-2010

  
  A jumpsuit and shoes Quote of the day, from a children’s book about the year 2010 written in 1972: 2010: Living in the Future (via waxy.org): In the year 2010 everyone wears a jumpsuit and shoes. The clothes may look odd, but they are sensible. The jumpsuits and shoes are made in thousands of colors, from a material so...
• 17-Jan-2010

  
  Rainy Sunday morning It’s a rainy Sunday morning. One could do worse than to spend it with Bas. He’s one of the more affectionate cats I’ve ever met.

  basphotos
• 16-Jan-2010
  Roanoke Users Groups I’ve spent some time yesterday compiling a list of users groups here in Roanoke, Virginia. I’ve placed that at https://artlung.com/techroanoke/. When we first arrived here in late November I was quite happy to have found the Roanoke .NET Users Group, though the fact that I’m not particularly a Microsoft developer is a hindrance to my...

  barcampcodecampcommunityRoanokeusers-groupsVirginia
• 15-Jan-2010
  Clay Shirky’s rant about women Terrific rant from my favorite internet pundit, Clay Shirky: And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks. They...

  Clay Shirkypsychology
• 14-Jan-2010

  
  Enterprise There’s something wonderful about looking up at a Space Shuttle. Even if the whole project was sort of a half-step and not really in keeping with getting us out there. It was okay for getting us into orbit, but we really need to get, gone, daddy-o. I went to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, part...

  photostravel
• 12-Jan-2010
  Google reviewing business operations in China Official Google Blog: A new approach to China: These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing...

  businessChinagoogle
• 12-Jan-2010
  “This is free genius tv advice.” David Letterman comments on TV shenanigans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN6Q2YFFteQ

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