... with (yet another) price hike.
p.s. how's that for feisty? :-)
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
Back to School
Back in the day, classmates would disappear from one another's lives on the last day of school; and re-emerge into each others lives the first day of school.
There was a "summer vacation tunnel." It was a solitary journey and you went it alone. Some came out with new braces, a new hair color or having grown 3 inches.
Others completely unchanged.
But it used to be there was a summer abiss. And students would lose touch with their classmates for the summer months.
No more.
Sure, they might not still physically see each other.
But believe you me, kids these days are absolutely connected to each other all year long via the movement of electrons.
They're all on Facebook.
And the...
Tuesday Aug 19, 2008
Copy/pasted from my inbox
Every once in a while, I get an email and I think to myself: "MaryMary, this would make a perfect blog entry."
(Except I don't actually call myself MaryMary. Not even in the privacy of my own head. And I bet you'd be surprised at the things I do in the privacy of my own head. :-)
So check out what landed in the inbox today from my good ol' pal Gunner -- aka Allen Gunn, Executive Director of Aspiration.
Hi Mary,
I hope this finds you well. Can't believe how long it's been since our
event in Menlo Park!
We are organizing a code sprint/code review for an open source
simulation/learning platform being developed by the United States
Institute of Peace (www.usip.org). The entire platform is being
developed with...
Friday Jul 18, 2008
My New Favorite Blogger(s)
What would the summer reading season be without a new favorite blogger?!
I'm thrilled to introduce you to my new favorite blog -- The Observatory.
It's authored by my (old) new favorite bloggers, Brian Leonard, Gregg Sporar and Roumen Strobl.
Brian, Gregg and Roumen are hot shot techno celebs I've had in my loop and on my radar (to mix metaphores) for a long time.
It's just now they've...
Wednesday Jul 16, 2008
A family was made whole
I have a friend. Her name is Beth.
We became friends because our kids our friends. They go to the same elementary school. They swim on the same swim team.
Today her grandfather was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, nearly sixty years after he was killed in Korea.
Earlier this year, the Washington Post ran a story about the remains of Korean War veterans being returned.
Her grandfather was one of them.
It was a hero's funeral.
There were honor guards and a military band; a horse-drawn carriage carried his remains to his final resting place.
As we went through the day -- during the mass and at the burial - I
searched for words. I wanted to capture my thoughts and share them with
her.
I kept fumbling. I kept trying to think of...
Tuesday Jul 08, 2008
We interrupt this programming...
Quick breaking development... So exciting I just head to share... James Gosling sent me an email.
For the uninitaited: Java is to James what Athena is to Zeus.
His picture (James', not Zeus') is on the wall of the Computer Science lab in my local high school.
The email. It contained the following words:
"I'll be there!"
(happy) sigh.
Please note the "!"
(double) (happy) sigh.
I'm working on this proposal.
James thinks it's a reasonably OK idea.
He's going to come to a meeting on Monday to tell some important people that.
I'm really gunning for this one, you guys. I really want to see it happen. So bad I can taste it.
James is coming. The guns don't get any bigger...
