My Baby Loves Robert Scoble
Strange but charming experience tonight with Tim Marsland, Robert
Scoble, Jonathan Schwartz, and my kid. Interesting mix, eh? Especially
since we are separated by about 6,000 miles. This is what happened ...
I was watching Scoble's interview with Marsland and Schwartz while my wife was putting our daughter to bed in the other room. Granted, "the other room" is about six inches from "this room" because we live in a little box, but, still, it's another room nonetheless. So I'm listening and watching and laughing quietly to myself and trying to keep the sound down as to not disturb the other two in the other room. But then I starting noticing that the baby was laughing. Now, she's one year and eight months, so a lot of things are funny to her and a few giggles are normal when going to bed. It sure beats the screaming and yelling and the arching of the back and flopping all over the place, right? Anyway, they read their story (yes, the same story as last night) and whatever. But then the giggling started again. And again. And then again. In fact, it went on for something like 40 minutes. What the heck is going on in there, I though? It's late. Go to bed already. But I was too interested in the damn video to get up. I mean, you never know what JIS is going to say, so sometimes you stay tuned, right? Then my wife came out when my daughter was finally sleeping and the video was just ending -- at right about 40 minutes. Well, it turns out that they heard every word, and the baby laughed every single time Scoble laughed and laughed herself right to sleep. Robert has a pretty loud laugh in this video, so I was always turning it down. Well, not down enough, I suppose. Too funny. Robert Scoble, via the Internet, way back in Silicon Valley, giggled my little kid to sleep all the way over here in Japan. Thanks, Robert! And from now on, I'm playing you to put my kid to bed! Hey, whatever works, right?
And it's a good video to play, too. Lots of talk on Solaris, community, Java, SPARC, CDDL, GPL, NetBeans, etc. Lots of honest talk about the turnaround at Sun and what it was like in here a few years ago. And I can second Jonathan's statement that there were a lot of people at Sun who believed in the company when things were not going very well. We stuck it out and took the garbage because we knew we were doing the right thing. It just took a little while, that's all. So give the video a play. It's an especially useful bedtime treat for kids under two, as well.
I was watching Scoble's interview with Marsland and Schwartz while my wife was putting our daughter to bed in the other room. Granted, "the other room" is about six inches from "this room" because we live in a little box, but, still, it's another room nonetheless. So I'm listening and watching and laughing quietly to myself and trying to keep the sound down as to not disturb the other two in the other room. But then I starting noticing that the baby was laughing. Now, she's one year and eight months, so a lot of things are funny to her and a few giggles are normal when going to bed. It sure beats the screaming and yelling and the arching of the back and flopping all over the place, right? Anyway, they read their story (yes, the same story as last night) and whatever. But then the giggling started again. And again. And then again. In fact, it went on for something like 40 minutes. What the heck is going on in there, I though? It's late. Go to bed already. But I was too interested in the damn video to get up. I mean, you never know what JIS is going to say, so sometimes you stay tuned, right? Then my wife came out when my daughter was finally sleeping and the video was just ending -- at right about 40 minutes. Well, it turns out that they heard every word, and the baby laughed every single time Scoble laughed and laughed herself right to sleep. Robert has a pretty loud laugh in this video, so I was always turning it down. Well, not down enough, I suppose. Too funny. Robert Scoble, via the Internet, way back in Silicon Valley, giggled my little kid to sleep all the way over here in Japan. Thanks, Robert! And from now on, I'm playing you to put my kid to bed! Hey, whatever works, right?
And it's a good video to play, too. Lots of talk on Solaris, community, Java, SPARC, CDDL, GPL, NetBeans, etc. Lots of honest talk about the turnaround at Sun and what it was like in here a few years ago. And I can second Jonathan's statement that there were a lot of people at Sun who believed in the company when things were not going very well. We stuck it out and took the garbage because we knew we were doing the right thing. It just took a little while, that's all. So give the video a play. It's an especially useful bedtime treat for kids under two, as well.
Posted by Robert Scoble on January 19, 2007 at 02:06 AM JST #
Posted by Jim Grisanzio on January 19, 2007 at 04:48 PM JST #