Category: general

i’m torn… there’s two races i was thinking of entering, but they’re on the same day, oct 17th… southcliff black & blue classic & burnsville town scamper…

listening to Vieux Farka Toure, drinking assam tea & thinking it is really too late to be working on a freelance project…

Can Twitter Rake in the Ads to Justify $1 Billion Valuation?

“… said Warren Lee, VC at Canaan Partners. ‘That would require tremendous volumes of impressions and reasonable conversions. Lots of execution will be needed. Not impossible but unlikely.’ …Yet Twitter is quite different. ‘It’s the first one that’s not a destination — it’s a distributed service,’ said Seth Goldstein, CEO of SocialMedia and investor in early Twitter backer Union Square Ventures. ‘There is no precedent for how to monetize it.’ “

—from adage.com

i have no taste at all… i still like nirvana’s teen spirit…

wordjournal:

noun • unrealistic belief in one’s own intelligence; delusion of superintelligence

listening to the economist podcast… yes, this is what happens when one does not own a television on a monday night…

watching harvard business publishing vodcast on how to cut costs strategically…

wordjournal:

adjective • /tar.mɪk/ • causing sneezing.

noun • a substance that causes sneezing.

personal best running time for 3 miles tonight at sunset along the river…

wordjournal:

verb • /tər-jĭv’ər-sāt’/ • 1) to change repeatedly one’s attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate. 2) to turn renegade.

From Latin tergum, “back”, and versare, “to turn”

wet autumn evening requires a big cup of chai with a bit of honey & a good book…

seems like the police have been called to the transit center with greater frequency. today it was domestic disturbance/violence. earlier this week is was domestic disturbance.

at the flood… it’s raining… listening to the youth of asheville… thinking of the naming of things…

participating in a aym event at the flood…

a recent creativity-online e-newsletter featured the pink ribbon: eva and faye campaign (nsfw) that promotes breast cancer awareness. it’s a provocative ad, but it got me thinking… where are the provocative prostate cancer awareness posters?

i lie awake in bed with the echo from the poets ringing in my head… a vestige, a holdover, a hangover from last night’s feast of open mic poetry & song & music… there is no remedy to this condition… only a hunger for more…

a nice overcast evening for a run at carrier park… still muddy in places, the river is pretty high on the banks & it smells like a bog…

finally discovered my @twitter trouble thanks to their twitter tumble log: “you may be running into a problem with followers… seeing empty followers lists and zeroed follower counts.”