About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
On a drive this past weekend, Jen thought it was time we talked about being new parents.
Everything you’d expect is in here; guilt, funny clothes, guilt, awkwardness, diapers, mommy-and-me classes, dad-and-son catch, and thoughts on starting solid foods.
Yes, we’re still armchair parents at heart.
Listen to Jen and Garrick Talk About Being New Parents [35 min]
Though it’s blown over and buried under six inches of fresh powder, a ‘SOLD’ sign was added to the ‘For Sale’ sign in front of the house this weekend.
Details to follow.
A little light-hearted fun this Friday, after a pretty tough week.
City Pages’ 5 Silly Questions: Garrick Van Buren
Thanks Corey.
Based on Greg Olsen’s Going Bedouin article, “Startbucks” defines a small team of entrepreneurs, 3-5 people, working on the next great business from geographically disparate coffee houses, collaborating via internet access.
In the Experience Economy, this is free office space for the price of coffee (in contrast to free coffee for the price of office space).
Based on this history of this blog, I get one made-up-word a year. That’s cool. Like the others, I submitted this one to pseudodictionary.com. I’ll update this post if/when it’s accepted.
Update 1 Apr 2006: Startbucks is now in the pseudodictionary
As part of the Dave Slusher 2006 Over-Exposure Tour, Dave and I talked about his AmigoFish and the Uplifter.org projects.
Upfront I talk about:
Dave and I talk about:
I throw in a song from Jeremy Messersmith and then we talk Uplifter.
Listen to Uplifting the AmigoFish with Dave Slusher [45 min]
The Center for Constitutional Rights recently released Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush, a $10, 144-page paperback they’re encouraging you purchase for your House Representative (that’s where impeachment hearings need to start).
From Onnesha Roychoudhuri’s interview at Alternet.org, here’s the basics of the 4 articles:
“This constitutes a violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which prohibits and makes criminal any wiretapping without a warrant.”
“You reference any particular day and the administration was making statements that Iraq has a relationship to 9/11, al Qaida and Osama bin Laden; that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. In the one and a half years leading up to the war, the time during which they were making these statements, they knew that they were false.”
“Our law is very clear on these things. You can’t torture people, you can’t commit war crimes, you can’t send people to countries where they’re tortured and you can’t set up special courts for trial. The Geneva Conventions are a part of our law…”
“If you look at these things together, you see that they are essentially destroying our republic and our democracy. They are destroying the constitutional structure of our government. Therefore, he should be impeached.”
Wow. This list even leaves out Bush’s poor handling of Katrina, Enron, Plame, and the Dubai Port deal.
Impeachment hearings for Clinton were initiated for crimes not at all related to our national security. Everything on this list is a national security and constitutional issue.
Not good for Bush. Not good at all.
Based on a quick Google News search, 4 towns in Vermont, San Francisco, and 28 of the 435 House Reps have voted for investigating grounds for impeachment.
Of those 28 Reps – MNs own Martin O. Sabo. Rock the House, Martin.
Thanks to Bruce Schneier for pointing me to Mark Steyn’s excellent ‘Long war’ is Breaking Down into Tedium column in the Sun Times.
Steyn lists out some actually happened examples of companies and financial institutions invoking the Patriot Act without reason. Given the complexities of most legislation and the Asking Questions = Unpatriotic attitude of the current administration, I can see how this could happen.
Fortunately, Steyn provides ammunition if you suspect overly-zealous corporations are misusing the security bill:
When we lived in Evanston, there was this Target just a few blocks away. Stuff on the floor, expired milk in the aisle, very un-Target-like.
We got into the habit of asking people about whether or not a particular Target was “good.” We came back up here for a wedding and asked the clerk at the hotel where the closest Target was and if it was good.
She looks at us flatly, “All Targets are good.”
That may be. The Targhetto Project over at Magnetbox uses Twin Cities income and home sale data to calculate which one might be less so.
My local ranks: 145
“Then what are we going to do, hook up with hippies” – Jeremy
So, Team Pink thought they could get a boy to help them build the motorcycle last episode? So, they didn’t watch any of the past seasons.
Roadblock: Fire Drill
Jen’s doing it (yes, you still gotta call it in armchair racing). We finished tonight’s House prior to starting The Amazing Race tonight. Eric’s banter about Team Pink is right out of, well, Boston Legal.
Detour: Press It or Climb It
Half a liter of sugar cane Ethanol for your VW Bug or a 90 ft rope climb. Rope climb for us. Huh, pretty cool that the old Bugs can take Ethanol.
Feels like the editors are trying to put Monica and Team Pink in the same “naughty” light.
Anyone know why the dentist couple has bandages behind their ears? I’m guessing nicotine patch.
Garrick’s Favorites
Here’s my second set of favorites from the 2006 SXSW BitTorrent, 7 this time. A little background on the process: I’ve got all the songs in an iTunes smart playlist – anything with the album of ‘SXSW 2006 Showcasing Artist’, playcount less than 1, and shuffle is on.
Today’s a pretty serious heads down work day, so the songs listed here break through the din of background music in the first listen.