Take a look at @SeinfeldToday on Twitter.  Elaine's office's Harlem Shake video immediately ending the craze. Newman tries to become the mayor of Seinfeld's apartment on Foursquare.

It'll have you trying to add your own new plotlines.  (Kramer and Mickey Abbott join a gold crew that digs for gold in Central Park.) Still trying to figure our how to work coffee tables, Kramer, and Pinterest together.

I guess some of the same things could be said about Steve Jobs and yet the latter has been glorified in many ways. They appear to share the same attention to detail and the drive to create things that change the world and are lasting. It's certainly sad that people got caught up (and many spun out) as part of that process, but their efforts still leave an amazing body of work that is hard to discount or think was just being in the right place at the right time. 

The Walt Disney Family Museum is a gem. Membership is affordable and they put on nice events (the roster for the monthly lectures has been impressive). It is easy to see he was tough on animators. Seems like a lot of them only worked at Disney for a few years.

It's also apparent Walt was extremely demanding but that's part of the price of creativity and pioneering many new fields. The risks they continually took in leveraging the fortunes on new films is difficult to compare to today because of the way that films are syndicated and financed. Back then they were continually betting the ranch. 

For those who do visit the Presidio, there'a s great trail that runs along the back of the cemetery. You can get to it via a foot path just up the road from the museum. Just head towards the old theater and look for an unmarked trailhead. Head up the hill until you hit the paved path or see the hole in the trees. That will be the back of the cemetery. Grave markers in the foreground with the Golden Gate Bridge and the ocean in the background. 

I'm happy. The decision to make a paid comment board was a probably a tough one at the onset but born out by the self-selecting aspect of it. Here's to a banner 2013 year that takes this great platform and puts it at the top of the charts. 

Heh, I have that radiation sticker on the back of my license. Might not make as a good stocking stuffer as do tiny flashlights and other EDC stuff, though.

Maker's Mark in a Manhattan, most certainly, with Antica Formula Carpano as the vermouth. But for sipping straight or on ice, got to go with the single malt. Dalwhinnie being the preferred. 

I wish his series of videos was shown in every middle and high school in the land. Plus the introduction of an Angry Birds-like game to inoculate the young against all the progressivism they'll be receiving in their formative years.

Great photo. Was also set to camp out yesterday morning by the GG Bridge but the one-day delay and work this morning put a crimp in things.

Wait until October and it starts making it's way through the streets of LA. It'll be a long slow parade, albeit without the marching bands, cheerleaders, and those small shriner cars zipping around.

Four independent carriers connected together controlled by a man walking alongside moving a small joystick.

"Joe Biden doing his best to replace Mel Gibson and 'crazy uncle' on the bat-[word] crazy scale."

"Joe Biden and bikers lipsynching a version of Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me, Crazy"

"On a scale of one to Joe Biden, how crazy is this?"

<<

Look for other countries to try to gain traction in cloud computing. But even if the computing resources remain in the country (located next to your cheapest power source - hello, northwest hydropower), collaborative coding and communications technologies make it easy to work from anywhere on the globe. Outsourcing of IT isn't a new thing but the level of talent and the ease of hiring and managing a virtual work force reduce the friction and greatly lessen the risk.

 The US certainly has an advantage but the changes taking place in the stack and the virtual nature of cloud computing means that companies like Cisco, HP, and Dell could become the modern equivalent of the New England textile mill. 

The federal government did amazing work back in Internet 1.0 by paving the way for innovation. The Reagan tax cuts and Carter/Reagan deregulation efforts combined with reasonable/low-touch laws like DMCA allowed the Internet to go through quick market-driven iterations. Unfortunately the debris piled up by government since then make going from startup to growth to industry leader difficult. There will be innovation for sure but sadly not as many breakouts as there could be.

Michael 

Great point (and great article). The transformations that will take place as a result of cloud computing will completely tear asunder the existing IT industry. The Internet completely remade the IT stack (outdated Novell equipment, anyone?) , paving the way for innovative companies at each layer of this stack and extending into retail, publishing, advertising, and god knows, everything else.

Cloud computing will do the same, bringing in a schumpetering storm among old and new along with a clash of titans extending across computing, telco, cable, and other sectors.  There will be many opportunities but it won't all be for free. Lots of good companies will get caught up in the changes (Cisco anyone?). Also, cloud efficiencies will means companies may not grow to the sizes they did in the last wave. (Instagram had only 13 employees and yet was serving 50m users. ) 

This virtualization of the IT stack (meaning the servers can reside almost anywhere with the software layers above abstracting away any physical understanding of the resources), means that computing resources and data management can be moved across the globe. 

cont >>

Was talking with a friend here in SF over the weekend. Professional woman in her 40s. Has worked in sales for software companies for years and so likely has a very good 200k+ salary with lots of benefits. Also was a part of a startup back in the dot.com days and did well then (although could have gotten caught in the downturn). 

In talking with her, it came out that she's spending $900 for her apartment. Which to many outside of SF is outrageous but given the going rate for a 1-bedroom in a nice area is $2500+, it's a bargain. But to think that a landlord is subsidizing her by just under 20k a year is maddening.

Other stories like that abound -- a person in a 3 bedroom place all her own (after her roommates moved out) leaving two rooms off the market.  I can understand maybe a 4-year contract term on a rental price but to have it indefinitely should be unconstitutional. And instead of putting the burden on landlords to support the elderly or disabled (protected housing classes), there should be a tax on each renter to cover the costs. 

A dozen or so years ago, I was at my brother and sister-in-law's home in San Diego. Something about bathing suits came up and my brother exclaimed that his wife has spent $40 on a bikini, "$40? For a bathing suit?!?" 

After he left the room, my sister-in-law turned to me and said in a low voice with a smile, "And that was just for the top... although he doesn't need to know that."

... occasionally providing some backstory to the others. His ship and the others carried munitions -- bombs, shells, bullets, flares. They were loading up for another run, going back to the fighting in the Pacific.

On July 17, 1994, the other ships were at the piers in Port Chicago.  Munitions detonated while being loaded into one of the ships and the Port blew up. All 5 ships and the piers and port blew up. No one from those ships lived. 320 were killed, 390 were injured.

He said his ship was in the middle of loading. They saw, heard, and felt the explosion.  A load was in midstream and the crane/the cable/the netting got caught up, dropping the munitions into the hold. There was panic among all onboard. But enough did the right thing and fortune was with them. There was more to the story but it was almost too much to take in.

I don't think the others at the table quite grasped the poignancy. (His partner had obviously never heard it before.) His matter of fact telling and easy fatalism masked much. It was a rare evening. One that still doesn't seem quite real.