It has been a wonderful time recording thoughts, commenting on other things that I have read, and thinking out loud on the canvas of the internet. This particular blog was started in 2003, but it is actually a continuation of another blog that I have kept from graduate school. With the audience moved to social networking, and with Google Plus allowing long posts with photographs, the blog format by small independent writers have outlasted its usefulness.
With nostalgia, I am closing this blog. From the days of .plan when you "ping" my account, to blogs on the school intranet, to a blog on the big wide open internet, I have written and thought about a rich variety of topics. New thoughts, however, will now be housed in the structured format of the social networking. For now, I will maintain my photo site, but who knows how much longer that will last.
Thank you to all of my readers for staying with me. God bless, and I hope to see you on Plus.
Monday, August 01, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Check out the much-maligned and delayed plane
Boeing Everett is having a Family Day on Sunday, August 14th. If I know you personally, and you want to see the planes, walk the factory floor, and are available on that date, please let me know by email. I can take family and guests to see the planes. There will be posters, exhibits, and entertainers. Food will be available for purchase.
Come see the planes, and you can tell your friends that you saw one up close before any 787 was actually sold!
Come see the planes, and you can tell your friends that you saw one up close before any 787 was actually sold!
Don't Hold Me Back
From our numerous trips, we have learned a few things.
1. We go to the local University Village mall almost once per week.
2. The twins do not enjoy the experience, mainly because they hate to be tied down.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Harry Potter 7, part 2
My local movie theater has 15 screens showing the final installment of Harry Potter at 12:01 a.m. ALL of the showings are sold out, and more screens will be showing the movies at 2:30 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.
It reminds me of the time that I watched Harry Potter on opening night with my friends in Portland!
It reminds me of the time that I watched Harry Potter on opening night with my friends in Portland!
Friday, June 24, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
There's No Comparison: Smugmug Loses to Facebook
I'm going to add: Flickr Loses to Facebook.
Just about every photo website loses to Facebook. No, I don't mean the quality of the photographs being displayed, nor the ease of sorting and arranging the photographs. I don't mean whether the photographs are artistic and good, and I don't mean if it is easy to search for photos related to the same central topic. If those metrics were important, Facebook would be dead last.
Instead, Facebook matters by the one metric that matters: face time. More people view my pictures on Facebook than on Smugmug and Flickr. I don't have Picasa Web, but I have no doubt that Facebook beats Google's Picasa Web by page view as well.
It saddens me, but I am seriously considering NOT renewing my Smugmug subscription in October. This is a big deal because as the first person in Canaan church to subscribe to Smugmug, I got many of you to sign up, and it cascaded to several more folks. I see the activities dry up over the years.
I'm also thinking about this blog too. Too few people read these contents from the blog itself. Had I not linked it to Facebook, most people won't be reading this at all.
Just about every photo website loses to Facebook. No, I don't mean the quality of the photographs being displayed, nor the ease of sorting and arranging the photographs. I don't mean whether the photographs are artistic and good, and I don't mean if it is easy to search for photos related to the same central topic. If those metrics were important, Facebook would be dead last.
Instead, Facebook matters by the one metric that matters: face time. More people view my pictures on Facebook than on Smugmug and Flickr. I don't have Picasa Web, but I have no doubt that Facebook beats Google's Picasa Web by page view as well.
It saddens me, but I am seriously considering NOT renewing my Smugmug subscription in October. This is a big deal because as the first person in Canaan church to subscribe to Smugmug, I got many of you to sign up, and it cascaded to several more folks. I see the activities dry up over the years.
I'm also thinking about this blog too. Too few people read these contents from the blog itself. Had I not linked it to Facebook, most people won't be reading this at all.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
We Love the Sun
We're 7 months old today, so mom and dad helped us celebrate by putting these silly pink rabbit ears on us.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
We're All Middle Class... Right?
No, if you make $250,000 you are not middle class. You're not middle class if you make more than $100,000 either (and no, the definition doesn't change if you are "middle class" in San Francisco and "middle class" in Beverly Hills).
See this quote from today's New York Times article Rich People Still Don't Realize They're Rich by Catherine Rampell:
"Everyone thinks they’re middle-class partly because of cultural reasons, and also partly because of the way the income distribution is skewed. The greatest income inequality is at the very top. As a result, people who are rich but not the richest — in the $250,000 zone, say — see they have more than lots of poor people, but also much less than a few very visibly rich people. Then they conclude they’re in the middle, so they must be middle class."
For more articles on the definition of what is a middle class, read this Liz Pulliam Weston piece.
See this quote from today's New York Times article Rich People Still Don't Realize They're Rich by Catherine Rampell:
"Everyone thinks they’re middle-class partly because of cultural reasons, and also partly because of the way the income distribution is skewed. The greatest income inequality is at the very top. As a result, people who are rich but not the richest — in the $250,000 zone, say — see they have more than lots of poor people, but also much less than a few very visibly rich people. Then they conclude they’re in the middle, so they must be middle class."
For more articles on the definition of what is a middle class, read this Liz Pulliam Weston piece.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Data Statistics Worth Understanding
Hans Rosling, data guru, explains how population and lifestyles have changed over the last 60 years and projects into the next 40 years. He does a wonderful talk titled "Population growth explained with IKEA box" and produced by TED.
He ends the talk with, "The role of the old West in the new world is to become [part of] the foundation of the modern world--nothing more, nothing less. But it's a very important role. Do it well and get used to it."
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