Keynote: Gone in 60 seconds

This is how to run a keynote in 60 seconds. Thanks Maholo and Jason Calacanis.

Lisa and Chris Camping Trip!

A lovely chance for a weekend getaway... June 13, 14, 15

We are considering Loft Mountain Campground.

National Park Service PDF link

Embedded Map from Tysons Area

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the group site A037 and non-group sites seem to be available.

June Travel to Buckinghamshire, London, and Brussels

So I'm flying out on a little trip.

Sunday

Catch the night flight with United UA 920 IAD 6:26 pm > LHR 6:55 am

Monday and Tuesday

I'll be in Buckinghamshire, staying with my parents and preparing for the MicroStrategy London BI Symposium.

Wednesday

Travel on the train up to Kensington for the event. Catch up with the local MicroStrategy UK team.

Thursday

Present, and then dash over on Eurostar for a quick trip to Brussels.

Friday

Brussels

Saturday

fly back home to Lisa!

Lisa and Chris Housewarming

So we are moved in! Thank goodness. Lillian Court at Tysons Corner is so far mostly delightful and we appear to have good and responsive landlords. Some of the pictures are hung, the boxes are unpacked, and we are really starting to feel well settled.

What does this engender? A Housewarming party!

We have created and sent the evite, but I always forget the sheer number of local people I should invite - so this blog posting is serving as another kind of invitation.

Come marvel at the extra square feet!

Mental Health Break - Sneezing Panda

So I know I'm VERY late to the game with this one, but it's worth the 30 seconds.

Why does Wikipedia Exist?

Because we have time to do it! More seriously, Clay Shirky has written a super short essay on this, and a larger book.

Here is the direct link the essay. Now I'm thinking I need to add Clay Shirky's book to the larger reading list. Along with Dan Pink's. Once I'm finished with reading the Chips diaries (they grow on one), and the outstanding Presentation Zen book (thank you Lisa).

Hat Tip, as so often, to Andrew Sullivan.

"This is one of those essays so brilliant and fun and provocative it stays with you for a while. It's by Clay Shirky and it's about social surplus - or how human beings manage modernity. It's hard to summarize, so here's a taste:"

If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--rising GDP per capita, rising educational attainment, rising life expectancy and, critically, a rising number of people who were working five-day work weeks. For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time.

And what did we do with that free time?  Well, mostly we spent it watching TV.

We did that for decades.  We watched I Love Lucy.

Virginia Camping

So I saw this Campground review book in REI, and thought "Why isn't that a blog for goodness sake, or at least a web site. Harrumph!" Next time I search What do I find? 

How superb! Books made free, sort of.

Now to use this for our next camping trip coming up in June. Maybe we can find something in between Lisa and Barb.