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"The character development IS great, but it's the casting that really makes that possible. I've never seen a production with such consistently outstanding casting, not just the main characters, but even her son's scary pseudo-girlfriend, for example. It's just a very well-crafted show, all around. And if you didn't catch it, here's a very interesting article about Christine Baranski, the actress who plays Diane Lockhart: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04..." - Gordon Vaughan

"These grids might be a great setup to test tactical EMP weapons..." - Gordon Vaughan

"Yeah, I thought of that. And he said he had a wonderful childhood, to the credit of his adoptive parents: http://americanhistory.si.edu/..." - Gordon Vaughan

"As a generalist myself, I'm very much an advocate for the value of generalists who can tie together ideas and opportunities from various siloed specialized disciplines. So many times, the same ideas can be applied in different fields in analogous ways. Or, we may find the key to unlocking a problem has already been discovered in another area of specialization. Interdisciplinary research has consequently become the norm rather than the exception. From a career standpoint, the article points out many of the difficulties for generalists in today's highly-specialized world. One potential workaround is the notion of the 'T-shaped' individual, a generalist with a breadth of knowledge but also an area  of specialization where they have studied in-depth. I think this is a viable strategy for generalists who seek to develop professional credibility while working as a connector between different fields of knowledge." - Gordon Vaughan

"As a generalist myself, I'm very much an advocate for the value of generalists who can tie together ideas and opportunities from various siloed specialized disciplines. So many times, the same ideas can be applied in different fields in analogous ways. Or, we may find the key to unlocking a problem has already been discovered in another area of specialization. Interdisciplinary research has consequently become the norm rather than the exception. From a career standpoint, the article points out many of the difficulties for generalists in today's highly-specialized world. One potential workaround is the notion of the 'T-shaped' individual, a generalist with a breadth of knowledge but also an area  of specialization where they have studied in-depth. I think this is a viable strategy for generalists who seek to develop professional credibility while working as a connector between different fields of knowledge." - Gordon Vaughan

"Maybe it was just a collander, to wash grapes or something?" - Gordon Vaughan

"Maybe it was just a collander, to wash grapes or something?" - Gordon Vaughan

"Have they REALLY picked the Super Bowl winner now 7 out of the last 8 times??!!!" - Gordon Vaughan

"Have they REALLY picked the Super Bowl winner now 7 out of the last 8 times??!!!" - Gordon Vaughan

"Excellent post. It's become clear this year that some websites - Google and Facebook for sure - are taking on many of the attributes of sovereign nations. Google's confrontation with China was just an early indicator of how even large, powerful governments will have to tread carefully. I'm not at all convinced that blanket releases of huge, classified datasets is a good thing. On the other hand, Assange talks about Wikileaks' curatorial role, and that seems key. As a site for careful, limited, responsible publishing of whistleblowers' revelations, where there is a clear and compelling purpose to shining the light on something, it may well be beneficial." - Gordon Vaughan

"Excellent post. It's become clear this year that some websites - Google and Facebook for sure - are taking on many of the attributes of sovereign nations. Google's confrontation with China was just an early indicator of how even large, powerful governments will have to tread carefully. I'm not at all convinced that blanket releases of huge, classified datasets is a good thing. On the other hand, Assange talks about Wikileaks' curatorial role, and that seems key. As a site for careful, limited, responsible publishing of whistleblowers' revelations, where there is a clear and compelling purpose to shining the light on something, it may well be beneficial." - Gordon Vaughan

"Excellent post. It's become clear this year that some websites - Google and Facebook for sure - are taking on many of the attributes of sovereign nations. Google's confrontation with China was just an early indicator of how even large, powerful governments will have to tread carefully. I'm not at all convinced that blanket releases of huge, classified datasets is a good thing. On the other hand, Assange talks about Wikileaks' curatorial role, and that seems key. As a site for careful, limited, responsible publishing of whistleblowers' revelations, where there is a clear and compelling purpose to shining the light on something, it may well be beneficial." - Gordon Vaughan

"Totally agree about reading more than one book at a time or listening to more than one podcast. Remembering where you stopped and trashing when finished ARE the essential features." - Gordon Vaughan

"Totally agree about reading more than one book at a time or listening to more than one podcast. Remembering where you stopped and trashing when finished ARE the essential features." - Gordon Vaughan

"Totally agree about reading more than one book at a time or listening to more than one podcast. Remembering where you stopped and trashing when finished ARE the essential features." - Gordon Vaughan

"Interesting, the concept likely applies in some domain, but not convinced organizing neighborhoods is the starting point. Here in the suburbs, many of my neighbors couldn't care less about getting to know their neighbors. Even the more friendly folks are quite busy and distracted. Unless there's a disaster, location doesn't deem to matter much anymore in the way most people organize their social life. Location must be getting replaced by something else, but I don't think we've clearly identified that yet." - Gordon Vaughan

"Interesting, the concept likely applies in some domain, but not convinced organizing neighborhoods is the starting point. Here in the suburbs, many of my neighbors couldn't care less about getting to know their neighbors. Even the more friendly folks are quite busy and distracted. Unless there's a disaster, location doesn't deem to matter much anymore in the way most people organize their social life. Location must be getting replaced by something else, but I don't think we've clearly identified that yet." - Gordon Vaughan

"Interesting, the concept likely applies in some domain, but not convinced organizing neighborhoods is the starting point. Here in the suburbs, many of my neighbors couldn't care less about getting to know their neighbors. Even the more friendly folks are quite busy and distracted. Unless there's a disaster, location doesn't deem to matter much anymore in the way most people organize their social life. Location must be getting replaced by something else, but I don't think we've clearly identified that yet." - Gordon Vaughan

"I don't think voters feel powerless. They are angry because they've had to tighten their belts, run their own households and small businesses far leaner and more carefully, and they're wanting government to do the same. Instead, we continued to see huge sums thrown at problems with little real planning, just as before. Even many of us who didn't vote for Obama were hoping that somehow, the impressive management of his campaign would transfer to his administration, that they'd be sharp and do a far better job of running the country than Bush did. Sadly, we haven't seen much evidence of this. In particular, they pushed for a poorly-constructed comprehensive healthcare bill, rather than partial, well thought-out reforms in the short run, and politically that was a huge mistake." - Gordon Vaughan

"There's something interesting in their matching algorithm, curious what it is. I've been on Twitter (@aeroG) over 3 years, and have grown all my following list organically, a bit at a time. Of the 35 people on my suggestions list, at least a third are people I used to follow, but had to trim to keep my tweet stream manageable (ie they are still interesting to me). One thing that's surprising (disappointing) is that there's not a SINGLE ONE of these 35 that I wasn't already aware of. I'm sure that's partly because I keep a much longer list of folks on my @AeroTweets account. Anyway, what really is interesting to me is Twitter did find one account of a close relative that I wasn't following. I do have several other relatives I follow on Twitter (and these are the accounts the list credits), but they are all near-dormant accounts, tweeting rarely if at all. I can't help but wonder if there's location information being used in the algorithm, even though I doubt any of us have that feature..." - Gordon Vaughan

"There's something interesting in their matching algorithm, curious what it is. I've been on Twitter (@aeroG) over 3 years, and have grown all my following list organically, a bit at a time. Of the 35 people on my suggestions list, at least a third are people I used to follow, but had to trim to keep my tweet stream manageable (ie they are still interesting to me). One thing that's surprising (disappointing) is that there's not a SINGLE ONE of these 35 that I wasn't already aware of. I'm sure that's partly because I keep a much longer list of folks on my @AeroTweets account. Anyway, what really is interesting to me is Twitter did find one account of a close relative that I wasn't following. I do have several other relatives I follow on Twitter (and these are the accounts the list credits), but they are all near-dormant accounts, tweeting rarely if at all. I can't help but wonder if there's location information being used in the algorithm, even though I doubt any of us have that feature..." - Gordon Vaughan

"There's something interesting in their matching algorithm, curious what it is. I've been on Twitter (@aeroG) over 3 years, and have grown all my following list organically, a bit at a time. Of the 35 people on my suggestions list, at least a third are people I used to follow, but had to trim to keep my tweet stream manageable (ie they are still interesting to me). One thing that's surprising (disappointing) is that there's not a SINGLE ONE of these 35 that I wasn't already aware of. I'm sure that's partly because I keep a much longer list of folks on my @AeroTweets account. Anyway, what really is interesting to me is Twitter did find one account of a close relative that I wasn't following. I do have several other relatives I follow on Twitter (and these are the accounts the list credits), but they are all near-dormant accounts, tweeting rarely if at all. I can't help but wonder if there's location information being used in the algorithm, even though I doubt any of us have that feature..." - Gordon Vaughan

"Pretty good list, but I'd say in some classes note-taking is very important, in others you really are dependent on studying the text. Each professor has their own unique quirks & priorities and it's important to discover these early in the semester!" - Gordon Vaughan

"Pretty good list, but I'd say in some classes note-taking is very important, in others you really are dependent on studying the text. Each professor has their own unique quirks & priorities and it's important to discover these early in the semester!" - Gordon Vaughan

"Pretty good list, but I'd say in some classes note-taking is very important, in others you really are dependent on studying the text. Each professor has their own unique quirks & priorities and it's important to discover these early in the semester!" - Gordon Vaughan

"Yeah, Apple's certainly done this on the software side, years ago with HyperCard and more recently with the Classic environment." - Gordon Vaughan

"Yeah, Apple's certainly done this on the software side, years ago with HyperCard and more recently with the Classic environment." - Gordon Vaughan

"Yeah, Apple's certainly done this on the software side, years ago with HyperCard and more recently with the Classic environment." - Gordon Vaughan

"Apple always does this, killing off the old just like Peter Drucker said. There's at least two aspects to this: 1. Almost no one else does this aggressively the way Apple does. When it comes to TECHNOLOGY, they've been proven right about future trends more often than not, and more businesses ought to copy their example. 2. However, when the deprecated technology starts to impact the availability of CONTENT, it's a different matter. These transitions usually take much longer, and ought to, so as much content as possible can be available in the new format before the old is cut off. So yeah, Apple is quite possibly over the line on Flash. Maybe they should have given some warning, rather than leave people hoping they would add it to the iPhone OS up until quite recently, when now it seems that was not the plan at all." - Gordon Vaughan

"Apple always does this, killing off the old just like Peter Drucker said. There's at least two aspects to this: 1. Almost no one else does this aggressively the way Apple does. When it comes to TECHNOLOGY, they've been proven right about future trends more often than not, and more businesses ought to copy their example. 2. However, when the deprecated technology starts to impact the availability of CONTENT, it's a different matter. These transitions usually take much longer, and ought to, so as much content as possible can be available in the new format before the old is cut off. So yeah, Apple is quite possibly over the line on Flash. Maybe they should have given some warning, rather than leave people hoping they would add it to the iPhone OS up until quite recently, when now it seems that was not the plan at all." - Gordon Vaughan