Milwaukee mayor, Tom Barrett commenting about his political goal while speaking with Robert Siegel on all things considered
I will never be the rock star of the far right and I’ll never be the rock star of the far left. What I want to be is rock solid and create jobs in the state.
Entire interview can be found here http://www.npr.org/2012/05/31/154093267/political-battle-heats-up-as-wis-recall-election-nears
Guest speaking about food at a restaurant featured on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives program
It is just like nothing!!
Said by Dan Kaminsky at the Forensecure’12 conference
If you trust everything, you might as well not trust anybody
For the record.. In addition to being an awesome speaker, he is also a down to earth guy. Makes us geeks proud :).
Very thought provoking comment on trust and security by Mark Boyle, the Moneyless Man, on a recent episode of PRI‘s To the best of our knowledge program (I personally transcribed this.. so pls overlook any minor typos 🙂 )
What money has become is.. a substitute for trust. It has now become our primary source of security in the world and what I am trying to do personally is to find my primary source of security in the friendships I have and in my local community and my relationship with earth. Because most countries, such as Argentina and Indonesia and currently Zimbabwe have experienced this hyperinflation and you can have a million dollars in the bank. One day with devaluation, it can almost be worthless. No matter how badly I behave, my friend’s don’t devalue me that quickly. And I think real security comes in our relationships, whether to it be with our planet or whether with our local community. I think what we all can do is build a bit more diversity in how we meet our needs and to not be so reliant on cash.
You can get the full interview at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TTBOOK/~3/X009WjbiqB0/tbk120205a.mp3. Segment with Mark starts at ~42 min.
I was standing in line to get into a plane yesterday and heard this comment made by a gentleman to his friend
You know.. funny thing about work, it has to get done!!
The guys were discussing about how their wives don’t understand the pressures of work :).
Innovation doesn’t come out of love, but from hate
Brian Brushwood, quoting Penn and Teller in the 327th episode of TWIT (~1:21 hour timeframe). He goes on to say how, if you love something, you can only create a pale imitation of it (say a show or piece of art). But if you hate something, you create something that is better than the object you hate.
Profound 🙂
Eric Reis‘ defintion of a startup
A human institution designed to create something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty
In other words, you don’t really need to work at a startup or out of a garage to be an entrepreneur. You can do the same thing in a typical corporate setting.
BTW.. check out this very cool conversation between Leo Laporte and Eric at
We were getting a free t-shirt at work and I requested a medium.. response from the person giving the t-shirt
You used to be a medium, when you started working here!!
And I was given a large..
Ouch :)..
More tiers means more tears..
Keep it simple :).
Here are some interesting titbits from a executive summary event hosted by Redhat/Intel that I attended yesterday.
We decreased the execution times for our orders from 1.5 seconds to 5 milliseconds
This from an executive managing the technology organization for a large trading company. Imagine the geekiness in accomplishing this :).
For every 450 smartphones that get activated a server is added to support them
This from an Intel executive. So if there are 500000 android phones being activated every day.. that’s around 1111 servers being added just to serve the android fans :).
1 in 4 servers currently runs Linux
This from a Redhat executive. If anyone doubts that Linux is mainstream.. they are living under a rock 🙂
