Friday, November 30, 2007
CEO resignation season
Lots of CEO's seem to be jumping or being pushed from their jobs lately. Hopefully they won't find themseleves too short of cash. Most seem to be getting decent severance packages, far in excess of the 2 weeks pay for every year of service that most of us get.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Republican YouTube Debate
Just exactly what makes these YouTube debates so revolutionary continues to elude me.
Thousands of questions are screened by the debate organizers, so they may as well have just written them all anyway.
Seems like just another expression of the personalization of everything.
Is the YouTube generation incapable of understanding (or paying attention to) a political debate without having to be amused by some jackass asking the question while performing for the camera?
Are the questions not interesting unless the viewer can relate personally to the asker?
Thousands of questions are screened by the debate organizers, so they may as well have just written them all anyway.
Seems like just another expression of the personalization of everything.
Is the YouTube generation incapable of understanding (or paying attention to) a political debate without having to be amused by some jackass asking the question while performing for the camera?
Are the questions not interesting unless the viewer can relate personally to the asker?
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Stem Cells
Today I saw an article about a new breakthrough in stem cell research. Scientists have been successful at making skin cells act like embryonic stem cells. They anticipate working out all of the remaining problems pretty quickly.
I find this topic to be extraordinarily interesting. It seems like it could be one day possible for injured people to regrow their skin, spines, eyes or livers. Maybe even a lost foot could be regrown. Truly amazing, and I hope I live long enough to see some of the incredible things that will develop from this technology.
I find this topic to be extraordinarily interesting. It seems like it could be one day possible for injured people to regrow their skin, spines, eyes or livers. Maybe even a lost foot could be regrown. Truly amazing, and I hope I live long enough to see some of the incredible things that will develop from this technology.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Out of the action
Been a while since I posted. I haven't had much to say lately and work has been hectic.
We watched the movie "The Hoax" at home this weekend. It is about a writer in the early '70's who forged a biography of the crazed billionaire Howard Hughes. It was based on the antics of writer Clifford Irving, and a lot of it was fictionalized, but the core story was true. He did this while Hughes was alive, and managed to get away with it long enough to get a million dollar advance from his publisher. There was a lot of intrigue and the book had a role to play in the Watergate scandals that took down Richard Nixon. Irving, along with his wife and his co-writer, eventually went to jail for fraud. He is still a published author today.
Richard Gere was the star. I really like him when he is not playing a simplistic good-looking guy. He is a great actor and was particularly good in this role.
We watched the movie "The Hoax" at home this weekend. It is about a writer in the early '70's who forged a biography of the crazed billionaire Howard Hughes. It was based on the antics of writer Clifford Irving, and a lot of it was fictionalized, but the core story was true. He did this while Hughes was alive, and managed to get away with it long enough to get a million dollar advance from his publisher. There was a lot of intrigue and the book had a role to play in the Watergate scandals that took down Richard Nixon. Irving, along with his wife and his co-writer, eventually went to jail for fraud. He is still a published author today.
Richard Gere was the star. I really like him when he is not playing a simplistic good-looking guy. He is a great actor and was particularly good in this role.
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