John E. Bredehoft

Ah, just manually refreshed Empoprise-BI. Now I have some content here. - John E. Bredehoft

And I manually refreshed the Twitter search. Wonder if the lastfmfeeds room has shut down entirely. - John E. Bredehoft

"Let's give it to the Molson people, eh?" - John E. Bredehoft

"Ah, but if I live a self-centered life, the other person's rules don't matter. :)" - John E. Bredehoft

"I wonder if always-on connected devices will end up changing our expectations about connectivity. Think about it. When I was growing up, my parents had a phone in our house, connected to the wall, that wasn't going anywhere. When we were in the car, we couldn't be reached on the phone. When I was at school, I couldn't be reached on the phone. When my dad was at work, you could only reach him on the phone if you knew his work number; his home phone number would only reach my mom and her dog. When I went to college, you'd have to call a pay phone in my dorm to reach me. At that time, there was no expectation of always being able to reach someone via the telephone. However, mobile phones slowly became more and more popular, and that phone that I would only use in emergencies slowly became a necessity. States such as California had to pass laws because some of us would answer our phones while we were driving down freeways. In the same way, it's quite possible that a few decades from now,..." - John E. Bredehoft

"He would have been a good father to you, based upon the way he defended his daughter back in the day." - John E. Bredehoft

"I'd suggest that they use a live worm to play the part of Wormtongue, but the worm wouldn't be to scale." - John E. Bredehoft

"As several others have noted in the comments, Pandora's Box has already been opened. Even if Google's executives withdraw Glass entirely after throwing up at the results, you can still find online ads, and even infomercials, that provide similar technology with a lot less visibility. As I write this, people are freaking out over the 3-D printed plastic gun. That's another box that's been opened also. I've been reading the thoughts of people, particularly Tad Donaghe, who maintain that privacy as we know it is going away - regardless of what happens to Google Glass." - John E. Bredehoft

"While the meth effect is particularly pronounced, any amount of hard living will wreak havoc upon your appearance. (Keith Richards.)" - John E. Bredehoft

"Andrew, you detected my closed-mindedness from the tone I adopted in my praise of real music. But can you blame me? Take a look at the oft-praised popular song "Imagine" by John Lennon, which some people praise because of its political ramifications, religious ramifications, or simply because of its poetry or its instrumentation. It's obvious that the song pales in comparison to J.S. Bach's two-part inventions (to say nothing of the three-part inventions). This is the reason why my Empoprise-MU music blog concentrates solely on real music, and avoids the nasty popular stuff. If you're interesting in reading about popular music, go read Rolling Stone or watch MTV - oh, wait, they've quit concentrating on music. Now we know why. In all seriousness, at some point I do want to write something about the economics of music over the centuries, and how the former system of rich patron sponsorship has moved to a "free market" (sort of) for music." - John E. Bredehoft