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Jake appears on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show tomorrow and on th Graham Norton Show on the BBC at 10.30pm. Thanks to Gyllencrazy for the info that this will be broadcast on BBC America on 8 December.
So, if you're in London as of now, keep your eyes open!
On with the post!
A couple of weeks ago, I was able to share a fabulous report by Lisa and Ted from their NYC trip to see Jake Gyllenhaal at the Armed Forces event. If you see Jake at one event in a weekend then you can consider yourself truly fortunate, but two?! Earlier the same day - 11 November - Lisa and Ted attended a performance of If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet which was followed by a Q and A in which the full cast, including Jake, participated. Lisa even asked the first question. So, with no further ado, here is Lisa's full and brilliant report:
'On Sunday, November 11th I attended If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet for the sixth time and enjoyed it just as much as I did all the other times! The performances are tighter than ever and Enid Graham is a great addition to the cast playing Anna's mother, Fiona. This performance was extra special because Ted, who has been on a couple of other adventures with me :-), was able to join me in the states and we had tickets in the orchestra front row center. It was amazing to be sitting that close and looking straight on like that and, yes, we did get splashed a few times!!
This performance included a Q&A and this time the full cast participated. Jake looked great in the mustard colored pants he had on in the recent 'walking about NYC pictures' with a brown button down shirt and no hat (boy, that head of hair is getting full – lookin' good)!
When the cast first got seated Jake looked around the audience a lot - he seemed to scan each and every person. He looked quite relaxed throughout, slumped down a bit with legs stretched out in front of him when other cast members spoke, sometimes with a distant look as if really concentrating on what they were saying. He would nod in agreement from time to time as they spoke and would sit right up when he was asked a question as he readied to answer.
I felt very fortunate to have the opportunity to ask the first question which I directed to Jake (of course)! I noted that he played a lot of different characters over his career and that Terry is quite a unique one and I asked if he could tell us what he liked and disliked about playing this character. He said that he first wanted to say that it was the writing that attracted him to the play and he went on to say similar things that we've heard him say before about the story (i.e. the messy family situation, etc.) but I'll be honest that when he was answering this question he was looking directly at me (he was doing that a lot – looking at the person who asked the question while giving his answer instead of looking at the audience as a whole) so there are definitely bits that went in one ear and out the other!
He said that when he read the script that parts were written like poetry and he liked that Terry's sentences were often unfinished and he had to finish them himself mentally. He said it was funny how when you looked at the lines all of Terry's were just on the left hand side of the page because they just stopped (he chuckled as he explained that).
He continued that he felt Terry is just trying to be understood and has such a hard time expressing himself but he is dedicated to the truth of it. He thinks that that's where a lot of Terry's anger comes from – not being able to verbalize it and that's what he loved about it. He added that if you're going to do something eight times a week you want it be something you really want to be a part of and he felt that this was an opportunity he might not get to play again.
Needless to say I just nodded and smiled throughout his answer because, wow, it's really hard to concentrate when those eyes are looking straight at you! So hard, in fact, that I didn't notice until much later that he didn't mention what he disliked about playing the character of Terry – maybe there isn't anything he dislikes about it?
Jake seemed happy to answer any questions that came his way as well as jump in and add to some of the things being asked of the other cast members. When Annie was asked about the relationship between Anna and Terry and if she even realized it was leaning toward a sexual nature she said that she and Jake talked a lot about that and both felt that this girl needed some type of positive attention – any type of attention – as she was so overlooked and being a 15 year old girl it's not a surprise that she confused her feelings at times. Jake took the microphone from her when she was done and wanted to add that it seems that people often confuse intimacy and sexuality and that you can have one without the other and that the way Anna and Terry are toward each other is just how these two people express themselves.
There was a question that's been brought up before regarding this play about the two brothers speaking so differently and Jake grabbed the microphone right away and laughed as he said "well George is A LOT older" which got a laugh out of everyone (especially Brian who plays George)! He went on to say that George had a lot of schooling, did a lot of studying and seemed to identify with that while Terry was closer to home and stayed closer to his mom. He said he also thought that Terry wants to hold on to somewhat of a street-smart kid attitude so kind of talks in a certain way to portray that.
Link for the above video interview
There was a question for Annie and Enid about the mother and daughter relationship which they both spoke a little about and then a couple of comments that made people shake their heads a bit (but that always seems to happen at a Q&A)! One was from an older woman who wanted to tell anyone who would listen that the British accents didn't sound right and caused her to not understand one thing that was said and she thought someone should make note of that – this caused a combination of discomfort and a few chuckles from the audience and cast members alike! Another older woman mentioned a photo of Jake that she saw in the NY Times as part of a review and that he had a red beard and she wondered what happened to it which caused Jake to grab the microphone and say "I think you got a bad copy of the NY times" which got quite a roar of laughter from everyone!
All and all it was a very interesting and entertaining Q&A and it was wonderful to hear Jake talk about this project which is obviously very dear to him.
I do have to thank a group of friends who joined Ted and I after the play and helped me write a thorough recap of the Q&A as it was a lot to remember but we wanted to get it all written down so we could share!'
Thank you, Lisa!
Carey Mulligan on Jake Gyllenhaal in End of Watch
This - a presentation for SAG - is very special. Carey's words on the performance of her friend Jake in End of Watch:
'I remember so vividly Jake's demeanor when he was preparing for "End of Watch." I have known him and regarded him as a dear friend for several years, and during that time I was very struck by some fundamental change in him. He was energized, he was completely present and he told me with such excitement about the work that he was doing to get ready for his next movie. A large part of the work involved was observing protocol on the midnight shift with the LAPD. Both he and Michael Pena witnessed pretty tragic, unpleasant scenes that affected them both. His descriptions of the ride-alongs were charged not with voyeurism but with a profound respect for the policemen and women whom they were observing. His reinvigorated sense of perspective and humility was palpable. I sensed just how deep he had already gone, and that the experience was filling him in some new way. Not that Jake had ever taken work lightly -- quite the opposite -- but what was so distinct on this occasion was that this work was releasing him. He seemed more free, more alive and more comfortable in his skin than I had ever known him.'
'Watching Jake in "End of Watch," I saw all of that joyous freedom on the screen. His complete ease in scenes with the brilliant Michael Pena makes those moments wrap around you in all their infectious warmth, and pulls you into the car with them. Their comraderie is the most beautiful portrayal of friendship in the truest sense: absolute trust, love and unflinching loyalty. It is a love story that broke my heart and Jake's work is fearless. He is not daunted by the intimacy of their relationship, the lightening fast emotional changes, the dichotomy of bravado and honesty or even a meticulously choreographed first dance at his wedding. When he stood to speak at the closing of the movie, with such quiet grace, I realized I hadn't thought once of the Jake I know as my friend but only as the character he embodies in this wonderfully special movie.'
Speaking of awards, Michael Pena has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Spirit Award although Jake and David Ayer were not nominated - mixed news there.
Also on Friday, Jake is taking part in a BAFTA screening and Q and A in London.
No doubt, there will be more! Especially as End of Watch has been causing such a great buzz over the UK since its release last Friday.


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Diffen for Comparisons
I stumbled across Diffen the other day thanks to Macdrifter's Diffen mention. I have found it a great service for comparing things. But keep thinking of all the things I really want it to compare, but since it has two fields that allow you to compare any two things you can do it. I may keep the Diffen compares Holland vs Netherlands close at hand as it is a pet peeve and explaining it isn't quite as easy as pointing to the link (particularly when people say, "well everybody calls it Holland", the answer is everybody doesnt and understanding what is correct is easy).
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Breaking Radio Silence Again
It has been a while since I've posted here. I'm thinking I may go back to a daily update for a stretch to keep the blogging muscle limber and trained.
Personal InfoCloud Backlog too
Over on other blog, [http://www.personalinfocloud.com](Personal InfoCloud) I have had a few more recent posts, but I have a very long backlog of content for that space as well. I need to rewrite the intro to the latest post there, [http://www.personalinfocloud.com/blog/2016/6/20/team-roles-needed-for-social-software-projects](Team Roles Needed for Social Software Projects).
I also have a series there called [http://www.personalinfocloud.com/?category=Shift+Happened](Shift Happened) that I have at least 12 most posts that need to get written (edited, or more likely rewritten). The next two in the Shift Happened series are related to UX in enterprise software and services and the subject of Adaption. Both of these subjects could likely have more than one post each. The UX in enterprise needs a grounding / framing piece as many still think of UX as visual design and not things being designed for use (nor all the various roles and domains that make up successful UX design). The Adaption pieces need the framing of complexity and complex adaptive systems to get set as a footing, but also needs to frame how adaption works and enables being comfortable in an ever changing environment that we live in today. As well a focus on Adaptive Road Maps is needed as how one plans in an ever shifting and complex environment is needed when today's road maps for the next 2 to 5 years are shot to pieces after a quarter or two. Having and maintaining a long focus on where a company or product is headed is really helpful, particularly when needing to understand foundation priorities needed for a long haul in a world were agile practices drive the day-to-day, but those agile practices are incredibly nearsighted and often discourage the long view (I've had a lot of work related discussions about this in the last 6 months or so as it is a common deep pain point for many).
A common question is about health after the eColi issue in 2014 to early 2015. My health seems to be good. Getting through last winter's holiday season had me on edge as I was partially expecting to fall ill again. Thankfully, I stayed healthy.
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PubPub from MIT Media Lab
I just stumbled into MIT Media Lab's PubPub service that is an open platform for writing new research journals. It has some nice collaborative features, versioning, embraces markdown at its core, and inline discussions.
Social Circles
One of the pieces I really want to explore is how its social dimensions work. My my take on different things I write and have interest in have different social circles that I want to ping and get feedback from. But, there are subjects and groups / communities that I really would like to participate in as well. This is a more complicated and complex area that really needs work and focus. Google+ tried this but deeply flubbed it as their circles are based on individual's perspectives and not socially constructed realities (knowing the boundaries of who is involved in a circle and having really solid social interaction design around that is a basic requirement, something nobody at Google seemed to consider nor have basic foundations in social sciences to understand this basic need). For PubPub, getting these constructs right would be really helpful and make it a really powerful service and platform.
Other than PubPub
PubPub is fairly close to what I was hoping Poetica would become and Draft app. I've been thinking about this for The Lenses and its subset, Social Lenses writings. Also just being able to write blogs and get knowledgeable sanity checks on them from others before posting. This is something I was trying to do with Draft app and had some success with people who are familiar with markdown (which is most people I interact with), but alerting people or subsets of groups that there is something I would really like early looks at and feedback is where it falls a bit short. It also seems like Nate Kontny is now more focussed on Highrise (light CRM service that he took over and now is CEO) than Draft. Also with the purchase of Poetica and its imminent shuttering, I'm looking at other options.
Some of what I have interest in can be found in Medium, but I'd rather just syndicate there, given their use policy. Medium is a really nice content creation platform, with some okay drafting with feedback capabilities, but I'm looking for a bit more. I also really prefer Markdown approach these days as it keeps things really light and I can edit and work on writing from most any platform I have with me or at my access, even if I'm lacking a network connection (which is something that is really helpful for focus for me actually).
One PubPub Wish
The one thing I wish PubPub had was an open source version where I owned the platform and could run it on a server of my choosing. But, it looks like this is in the plans (a few bugs need to be squashed on their way to this), as the PubPub About page states.
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Podcast That Gave Life Back to the Living
A few years ago after my mom passed away, which was 11 months after my dad passed, I was in a deep fog. I was in Stockton, California a lot for about 16 to 18 months taking care of things and wrapping things up (mostly trying to sort out a lot of mysteries of where things were and went - some mysteries remain). On my trips out there I would get out to the Bay Area every few days to see friends, have work focussed meetings, or just get out of town.
On those trips, as well as errands around town (including around DC), I would listen to podcasts. They were great ways to have (sort of one-sided) conversations around things I had interest in, but was lacking someone else with that interest with depth where I could learn things. They also kept me entertained. The big thing was they kept my mind going (it was a slow time on the work front) and not dwelling on loss.
Many of the podcasts I listened to then were on the 5by5 Network. I deeply enjoyed Mac Power Users (and still do) and many other shows there. But, there was one I really enjoyed, which was Back to Work with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin.
Back to Work Was a Lifeline Back
I'd met Merlin a few times through special web related things were both were involved in, he is a friend with many friends, and we had the pleasure (at least for me) of meeting for lunch. But, Back to Work laid me out in a wonderful way.
While, I got a lot out of the productivity, life guidance, how to think through things in a manner that will improve things, and other more serious things; what was a huge, no giant, help was the humor. That stretch after losing both parents and being an only child (trying to keep it all together), while being somewhat (okay a lot) numb to things in life because of the loss was tough. There were days where it was tough to do things and get things done that needed to be done, but they mostly did. But, that bright light that deeply helped was Merlin and his humor on Back to Work. This humor and riffs fit how my brain works really well. It also would get me laughing insanely hard to the point of nearly crying. It also nearly caused me to have to pull off the road I was laughing so uncontrollably.
That finding and holding on to my sense of humor, from just being able to laugh, helped me through that deep grief fog. It helped me get the light part of my brain back to life. When things get tough (like last year's serious health issues) I make light of it and get myself to laugh. During the stretch after my parents died, I had lost that ability to do that for myself. Thanks to Merlin, I got it back and walked out of the grief fog intact (maybe even in better shape than going into it).
Every time I listen to Merlin these days on Back to Work, Dalrymple Report, and Reconcilable Differences I think I need to just say a little thanks for a little unknown gesture that had a big impact, laughter. So, thank you Merlin.
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What to do with Podcast Favorites
Another thing I'm wanting to sort is podcasts I like, make that one's I listen to and like. I have a list of podcasts I regularly listen to tucked into the left column in my links: podasts.
But, there are often podcasts I listen to that I really like and would like to easily share out to others. When I run into podcasts episodes that I hear mentioned I will track them down and most often use Huffduffer to grab it and putting into my listening queue that I most often consume in Overcast in the car driving to get my son or going through my morning routine that includes making breakfast and coffee and consuming them while scanning news and the day's plans.
Last year I found many of the episodes of Exponent with Ben Thompson and James Allworth that I really liked a lot. While Overcast has a nice share component within it, that functionality takes the person clicking to it to Overcast's web page for the podcast (or to the exact timestamp in the podcast) and to play it. While I like the idea of this, what I'm really wanting is to primarily link to the actual podcast page (hopefully this is something beyond a Soundcloud page, which I find to be really frustrating for this purpose as well).
Potential Zeef Solution
I do use a "podfodder" tag in Pinboard, which I occasionally push things into. But with this I don't have it easily exposed elsewhere and people aren't exactly looking for a podfodder tag they don't know of (well they may do so now, but now isn't then). I keep thinking I will do something similar I do to the "linkfodder" tag in Pinboard, which I use on things I read I really like (when I remember to tag them).
With "linkfodder" I pull that tag into Zeef, which is a list making and managing site that structures related content well, as a link widget. The Zeef link widget pulls the last 10 from the "linkfodder" list and makes them available in as a JavaScript component, which I embed in the side of this vanderwal.net blog. I could do the same thing for "podfodder' (in 2 minutes I added the feed to a private page in Zeef and may make it public), but I'm not sure where the widget will be best placed.
Wishing a Solution Were Just Here
About a year ago Matt Haughey wrote about podcasting needs and more directly Matt Haughey has social subscription list wish. I keep hoping somebody would have built this podcasting social subscription list as a tool. It seems like a perfect thing for Huffduffer as a "rate after listening" feature. This seems to be wide open for somebody to do, it may not have great money attached to it, but it would be a great service that has value.
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Happy New Year - 2016 Edition
Happy New Year!
I'm believing that 2016 will be a good year, possibly a quite good year. After 7 years of bumpy and 2015 off to a rough start on the health front it stayed rather calm.
I don't make resolutions for the new year. It is a practice that always delayed good timing of starting new habits and efforts when they were better fits. The, "oh, I start doing this on on New Years" always seemed a bit odd when the moment something strikes you is a perfectly good moment to start down the path to improvement or something new.
This blog has been quiet for a while, far too long in fact. Last year when I was sick it disrupted a good stretch of posting on a nearly daily basis. I really would like to get back to that. I was planning to start back writing over the past couple weeks, but the schedule was a bit filled and chaotic.
Digging Through Digital History
This past year I did a long stretch working as expert witness on a social software case. The case was booted right before trial and decided for the defense (the side I was working with). In doing this I spent a lot of time digging back through the last 5 to 10 years of social software, web, enterprise information management, tagging / folksonomy, and communication. Having this blog at my disposal and my Personal InfoCloud blog were a great help as my practice of knocking out ideas, no matter how rough, proved a great asset. But, it also proved a bit problematic, as a lot of things I liked to were gone from the web. Great ideas of others that sparked something in me were toast. They were not even in the Ineternet Archive's Wayback Machine. Fortunately, I have a personal archive of things in my DevonThink Pro repository on my laptop that I've been tucking thing of potential future interest into since 2005. I have over 50,000 objects tucked away in it and it takes up between 20GB to 30GB on my hard drive.
I have a much larger post brewing on this, which I need to write and I've promised quite a few others I would write. The big problem in all of this is there is a lot of good, if not great, thinking gone from the web. It is gone because domains names were not kept, a site changed and dropped old content, blogging platforms disappeared (or weren't kept up), or people lost interest and just let everything go. The great thinking from the 90s that the web was going to be a repository for all human thinking with great search and archival properties, is pretty much B.S. The web is fragile and not so great at archiving for long stretches. I found HTML is good for capturing content, but PDF proved the best long term (10 years = long term) digital archive for search in DevonThink. The worst has been site with a lot of JavaScript not saved into PDF, but saved as a website. JavaScript is an utter disaster for archiving (I have a quite a few things I tucked away as recently as 18 months ago that are unreadable thanks to JavaScript (older practices and modifications which may be deemed security issues or other changes of mind have functional JavaScript stop working). The practice of putting everything on the web, which can mean putting application front ends and other contrivances up only are making the web far more fragile.
The best is still straight up HMTL and CSS and enhancing from there with JavaScript. The other recent disaster, which is JavaScript related, is infinite scroll and breaking distinct URLs and pages. Infinite scroll is great for its intended use, which is stringing crappy content in one long string so advertisers see many page views. It is manufacturing a false understanding that the content is valued and read. Infinite scroll has little value to a the person reading, other than if the rare case good content is strung together (most sites using infinite scroll do it because the content is rather poor and need to have some means of telling advertisers that they have good readership). For archival purposes most often capturing just the one page you care about gets 2 to 5 others along with it. Linking back to the content you care about many times will not get you back to the distinct article or page because that page doesn't actually live anywhere. I can't wait for this dim witted practice to end. The past 3 years or so of thinking I had an article / page of good content I could point to cleanly and archive cleanly was a fallacy if I was trying to archive in the playland of infinite scroll cruft.
Back to Writing Out Loud
This past year of trying to dig out the relatively recent past of 5 to 10 years with some attempts to go back farther reinforced the good (that may be putting it lightly) practice of writing out loud. In the past few years I have been writing a lot still. But, much of this writing has been in notes on my local machines, my own shared repositories that are available to my other devices, or in the past couple years Slack teams. I don't tend to write short tight pieces as I tend to fill in the traces back to foundations for what I'm thinking and why. A few of the Slack teams (what Slack calls the top level cluster of people in their service) get some of these dumps. I may drop in a thousand or three words in a day across one to four teams, as I am either conveying information or working through an idea or explanation and writing my way through it (writing is more helpful than talking my way through it as I know somebody is taking notes I can refer back to).
A lot of the things I have dropped in not so public channels, nor easily findable again for my self (Slack is brilliantly searchable in a team, but not across teams). When I am thinking about it I will pull these brain dumps into my own notes system that is searchable. If they are well formed I mark them as blogfodder (with a tag as such or in a large outline of other like material) to do something with later. This "do something with later" hasn't quite materialized as of yet.
Posting these writing out loud efforts in my blogs, and likely also into my Medium area as it has more constant eyes on it than my blogs these days. I tend to syndicate out finished pieces into LinkedIn as well, but LinkedIn isn't quite the space for thinking out loud as it isn't the thinking space that Medium or blogs have been and it doesn't seem to be shifting that way.
Not only have my own resources been really helpful, but in digging through expert witness work I was finding blogs to be great sources for really good thinking (that is where really good thinking was done, this isn't exactly the case now, unless you consider adding an infinitely redundant cat photo to a blog being really good thinking). A lot of things I find valuable still today are on blogs and people thinking out loud. I really enjoy David Weinberger, Jeremy Keith, and the return of Matt Webb to blogging. There are many others I read regularly (see my links page for more).
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The Humanity of it All
This morning started with my early morning reading and I found Om Malik Interviews Brunello Cucinelli after a more somber stretch of reading.
Om's interview is a breath of fresh air for me. There is so much in this piece that resonates with understanding not only quality of product, but quality of life and living. There is so much wisdom and understanding the humanity of life and living. Not only are many of our social platforms missing this, but our work and the environments where we live.
There is so much that is fantastic in this piece, but the focus on sane work life and real balance is great to see. Also the focus on ensuring the whole ecosystem is sustainable and thriving is essential. But, the slice of this where Bruello says, "We need a new form of capitalism, a contemporary form of capitalism. I would like to add humanistic to that equation" is key. The article mentions "human" 15 times and to me bringing humanity into our work focus and life focus is essential.
There are so many good things in this it may be the best thing I have read in a while, but also highly likely to reread a few times.
Thank you Om
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Good Bye Elizabeth Randolph
This morning's reading I came across Kevin Hoffman's piece In Remembrance of Elizabeth Randolph and Elizabeth Randolph Memorial Service Details and Obituary. This caused the day to start with tears as I've know Elizabeth since the early 2000s as part of the DC and Baltimore information architecture community. I really enjoyed seeing her at events as she was always friendly and calm with great insights. I'm bummed as I didn't know she was sick.
I will miss her at events and knowing she would nearly always be there.
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Inviewed on Shift Podcast
On Friday I had the pleasure of spending about an hour with two of my favorite people, Euan Semple and Megan Murray on the wonderful podcast, Shift. We covered tagging, taxonomies, meaning, power, and the future that we are all hurtling towards.
I am a big fan of their interviews (as their conversations between them are familiar from past conversations between us) with other. I still have a few to get to.
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Interview with New Steve Jobs Biographers is Quite Good
On Friday I saw that John Gruber had interviewed the authors of Becoming Steve Jobs as part of Apple's Meet the Author Podcast series. I had been reading snippets and reviews about the book for a couple weeks, with Steven Levy's "The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was" and Rick Tetzeli's Fast Company except "The Evolution of Steve Jobs" and found them interesting and much more inline with the many books I read over the years about Apple and Steve Jobs, than I did the Walter Isaacson book snippets I read.
This morning I watched the iTunes podcast of Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli: Meet the Author and it more than lived up to expectation. It was incredibly good. So good I bumped the book to the top of my wishlist.
Why this book?
I have read quite a few books about Apple and Steve Jobs with Alan Deutschman's "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs", Steven Levy's Insanely Great, and Adam Lashinsky's "Inside Apple" standing out from the many others I read and all the Silicon Valley history and culture books I have read along the way. They stood out as they grasped the lore, debunked it as well as extended it. They filled in the gaps with new stories and understandings. But, under it all they looked to only tell the stories of what, the place setting, and how, but they get to the why.
This book seems to fit why I liked the others with filling in the background and understanding the lore. This book seems like it will fit well in my underlying interest.
My fascination with Apple and Steve Jobs has to do with influence and foundation setting. In particular its early-ish influence and foundation setting with me.
I was born in the Bay Area, but grew-up up and down the whole of the West Coast in and just outside the major cities until my second year junior high when my parents moved to the California's Central Valley. Being back in Northern California and a little over and hour from San Francisco we got San Francisco stations. This meant in the late 70s the personal computer was being talked about a lot. My dad was a systems and operations guy in the health insurance industry and there were always magazines around with computers in them. His fascination and work with computers rubbed off.
But, being in Northern California meant television and print news also covered computers and technology. This hippy guy with long-ish hair and a scruffy beard was continually on talking about what was happening today and in the near future. It was Steve Jobs. His near future visions influenced my perception of reality and how things should be. Our family's first computer came in 1983 and it was an Osborne Executive, which I learned to use and copy code (copying small software that was handed out in local user groups) and play around with to see how things worked until they broke (then I swore and did it again).
But, in 1984 the Mac came out and that changed my whole perception of things. Not only did I have computer envy for the first time, but I also began to understand the future of where things were headed and was (then) thankful I didn't go into computer science as a major as things became much easier to use (what I sorted out a few years later is much of what I wanted to do would have been aided by having a formal CS background). But around this time I also was meeting people who worked at Apple and they loved what they did and loved their jobs. Many at college had Macs and our newspaper my last semester not only was set up with Macs, but we got a new type of software, desktop publishing, for Mac from Aldus, called Pagemaker. It was so new we got a lot of training as part of the deal. We sort of had a digital newsroom (with a fully functional sneaker net).
After Jobs left Apple I followed what he was doing and had deep interest in Next. During this time I still had Macs around with most jobs and in grad school a couple students had Macs, but they weren't as prevalent as they were in the late 80s in California. Often jobs I had would have a Mac around for creatives or testing, but by the mid–90s they were buggy. When Jobs came back to Apple as advisor as part of Apple purchasing Next in 1997 I still knew a few people at Apple and they were quite happy to see him back in some capacity. The shifts and changes at Apple fascinated me as the guy who influenced a lot of my belief in personal computing, what is was doing and could do, and how it should be done (with a focus on the user and ease of use - this was a "no duh" for me in the early 80s as I was making and breaking things on my Osborne).
Around 1999 I started cluing into the Steve Jobs keynotes again and in 2001 I picked up my first Mac, a PowerBook G4 Titanium, lovingly known as a TiBook. I got it because my laptop I was using, a light Toshiba, was tied to my project I was on and I left that project. I missed having a laptop, but I really wanting power, good screen, and ability to have UNIX / LINUX as well as a major consumer OS. In the TiBook I had UNIX as the core of OS X with command line ability, OS X, Classic Mac, and importantly a Windows emulator that allowed me to use Visio and MS Project (those needs would dwindle and become tiresome the more I got used to the Mac and its ease of use and its "it just works" approach to things - these do not always hold up). But my needs for the 4 OSs on one device that was powerful and relatively light eased into the background as the lack of needing to spend regular time maintaining things turned quickly into me just doing my work on the device.
Over the years with my Mac and increasing interest in Apple and how they do things and frame things, I got to know even more Apple folks as friends went to work there and I gave a some talks inside Apple. I was also running into people who had managed at Apple and I enjoy interacting with them as they think and work differently, which often fits how I like working and approaching things.
It is this trying to understand why my Apple tools and software (mostly) work really well for me and how I enjoy working with Apple (and ex-Apple) folks (I also have this enjoyable fit with McKinsey folks, but for very different reasons). It is trying to understand the what, how, and why of the fit with Apple, but as well as they "this is the way things should be" that was seeded in my head in the late 70s and was feed and groomed through life, that has me interested in understanding Apple and Steve Jobs.
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So, how fast should this go?
Hey guys. Well, I finally got done with the project I've been working on. My dad has an all original 67 Camaro. We did a minor restore a year ago including the rebuild of the original 210HP 2bbl Turbo-Fire carb. When we built the engine, everything that went back in was stock. We did put a "very mild cam" in the car. The machine shop that did the machine work called it thier 300 horse cam? I wish I had the cam card now Anways, the tranny in the car is an original 2 speed power glide and the rear end is a one tire fire 2.73 rear end. So, now that you are up to speed on that, what I have been working on lately was installing a new Edelbrock performer intake and new Edelbrock 600 CFM carb. We took it out for a spin today, and man does she run good!! We can even make the tires spin a bit with those low gears! My big question is, how fast should this car be able to accelerate with these gears? I think it runs great, but my dad keeps thinking that it should be able to go quicker. What can these gears with that tranny really produce? Thanks again!
a 2 speed powerglide and 2.73 hurts.it hard to say how fast.
to move to a th350 3 speed would give you a extra gear to pull through. that makes a big noticeable difference in drivablity. a mild cam works good with a mild stall like 2000. with a performer intake and a 600cfm, that sounds like a performance driver to me. may only get to 14's but would be great fun(w/ 300hp and a 3 speed with mild stall)
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Thanks for the reply Its goign to be tough to convince him to change tranny or rear end He wants to keep it original.. I had a tough time convincing him to buy all the edelbrock stuff and let me bolt it on. We put all the other stuff away in the boxes Its tough just because of the originality of the car. The glass in it even still has the original factoring etching. If you want, I can post a couple pics of what I did and the interior of the car. Let me know.
how fast will it go?
I would forcast times more like in the mid 16's as in stock trim it was a high 17's car.
What that machine shop was calling their 300 hp cam was probably the old 300 hp 327 cam shaft. Back in the old days it was called a 30/30 Duntov. The reason it was called a 30/30 was because advertized duration was 300 degrees on both sides.
I dont know how fast the car would be in the 1/4, but if you went with a turbo 350 and 355-373 gears, the car would seem twice as fast. I had a car with a stock 30 year old 307 with a turbo 350 and 273 gears. I built a 355 with 375 hp and 407 ft lbs which was over twice the hp and torque of the 307, and installed a 700r4 transmission. After I got the motor installed, I drove it a while, and then switched the rear gears to 3.90's with a posi. I noticed more of a performance difference with the gear swap after the motor switch than with the swap from the tired 307 to the 355 with the 273 gears. The 355 had vortec heads, a XE268H cam, performer RPM intake, and a 650 carb.
how fast will it go?
A good compromise gear for your car would be one in the 3.50- 3.60 range. It will be deep enough to get you off the line good and probably drop another second off your ET, and yet tall enough for highway cruising.
Changing the rear gear ratio will not detract from the originality of the car....OK, maybe if you decode the tag. They came with various gear ratios.
Changing the tranny is a bolt in. You can keep the 2 speed.
Run that by the "old guy".....................tell him that this old guy says it's OK.
Hehe, thanks Poncho. I'll see what I can do. Thanks for all the tips everyone. Much appreciated!! See you all around!
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A lot of guys used to run powerglides and still do in dragracing. The big thing is you need a wide lobe center cam for that. Most po-glides came with a 1.80 low gear, and 1:1 hi. With a warm engine, a 4.10 gear was just what the Dr. ordered.
for the track, when the doc gives you a prescription for speed.. this sounds like a performance resto cruiser.?. says he redid the interior..
i thought it was a 350 not a 307. in high school my 71 chevelle went 14.8 had 350 w/mild stall.close to stock gearing w/14" wheels
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Another thing that a lot of guys do with those po-glides to make them work better, and shift harder and faster. Drain your dextron trannny fluid and put F type transmission fluid in it. Not only will it be like putting a shift kit in the trans but the guys that did it told me that it sure didnt hurt the transmissions life any either.
With 210 hp on first generation Camaro, why start gearing it up etc. to make it faster? Why not just buy your own car that you can build to be fast. Enjoy the stock Camaro for what it is.
IIuciano77, that is basically what we do with it. Mostly a sunny day sunday (no pun inteded ) driver. We just bolted on those Edelbrock parts for alittle bit of fun and such, but it would only take a few hours to put the two BBL back on. Reason I can't buy my own car? Haha, still working on college. To damn broke Anyways, thanks again for all your advice/insight/tips. Take care
I doubt you'll even be in the 16's. Cam swaps and other upgrades will likely make next to no difference with the bad gearing.
For the money you'll be going a lot faster with a 200 R4 and a set of 3.73 gears.
gear isnt everything, you can do a lot with 3.08-3.55 gears. you just cant start with a 1.80 first. the th350 has like 2.4 1st i think. isnt that the same as adding a little gear like a 3.70! ?
and you can be smilely smile at 70mph
the overdrive is a great idea!
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The real enemy is located up north in South Bend, Indiana-University of Notre Dame. Down south Catholic County aka Gay-nz-ville, Florida is not a friendly town.Dixie Mafia is aterm made up by the FBI. Therefore, no such organization existsnow, nor has ever existed.
The Old South was built by people helping each other out. Contracts were made by a handshake. Men were men, and yankees were yankees. The FBI has always been an enemy of the South, fabricating lies and accusations.
Anybody know anything about Dixie Mafia involvement with MS hwy patrol in 1960s?
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#43 Jun 12, 2012
The headquarters of the DM is in Dothan, Alabama; but they operate worldwide. I am not a part of the DM but do respect them.
#44 Jun 13, 2012
one thing i can say about your comment its the funniest thing i ever read in my life.i no your joking because no one in his right mind would believe that BS.the Dixie mafia is a word invented by the FBI for southern criminals who may no another criminal in a different southern state. that's all it WAS.
#45 Jun 16, 2012
dIXIE MAFIA IS NOW DEFUNT.
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#46 Jun 16, 2012
I don't know about da Dixie Mafia, but what about da Dixie Chicks?
#47 Jun 21, 2012
Just doing some reasearch and wondering about info on Kirksey Nix Jr. and his connection?
#48 Jun 24, 2012
I knew Mr. D'Angelo from gulfport.He knew my mom from K of C.... angel of fire is right, you people really don't know WTF ur talking about and should leave the dead in peace... signed, Blanches' son rusty!
#49 Jul 1, 2012
yes why, they are going to your house tomorrow!!!
#50 Jul 1, 2012
what the hell is da do you meat the learn english ass ho*L!
#51 Jul 18, 2012
Hi there!
I know this is really, really out-of-the-blue, but I'm conducting research for a documentary about law enforcement on the Gulf Coast and we're looking at Dewey D'Angelo as part of the project. Do you have any information, old photos or news articles about your uncle? If so we'd love to see them.
#52 Oct 7, 2012
I spent time in Biloxi, MS at Keesler AFB for training starting in the mid 80's, visited the notorious Dream Room once and always wondered how they paid the light bill. The two women who were supposedly entertainers were not destined to be cast in the hollywood movie, Striptease. They served one kind of beer, Schlitz, in a can and it was so dark in there that the waitress/manager? used a flashlight to identify the denomination of dollar bills that were being exchanged. I heard from somebody who lived there that the club Cowboys/Oscars/Take Two (name changed between 1985 and 1990) might have been owned by one of the people named Judge and Margaret Sherry case. Anyone want to comment? Just curious if I was hanging out in one of the clubs owned by the colorful figures I've heard about.
#53 Nov 9, 2012
Did anyone see the news today? Robert Ronald O'Connor (Kirksey Nix's son) was arrested with some woman and 11 other people who were already serving time in federal and state prison. THey said O'Connor was involved with multiple murders, and big time money scams that went into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. They feds took his computers, cell phones and said they been tracking him online for some time now. It seems these people never go away. They said Nix's son, O'connor had ties to people all over the united states and in Cuba also
#54 Nov 10, 2012
I couldn't find any articles about this. Why would Kirksey Nix's son have a different last name?
#55 Nov 23, 2012
Former Air Force...the Mattina family owned the club(s) until it was leveled for the Beau Rivage resort. David M's/Spinnaker Run were two other incarnations.
#56 Nov 24, 2012
Dewey D'Angelo....My father was very good friends with your uncle and talked about him a lot when I was growing up. His passing effected him a lot...Thought it was weird to hear that name again.
#57 Dec 7, 2012
I wonder now that Jim Letten has stepped down will that Federal Judge lift that gag order to the media about Nix's son and his co-harts? The Hibernias have a long history in New Orleans, I won't be surprised if another "Hiberniate" is appointed and this case gets swept under the rug with the rest of them
#58 Jan 6, 2013
Ahhhhhhhhhh the Gringos Room. What a story I could tell.
#59 Feb 3, 2013
I worked for Dewey as a bartender, outside gate 7
the dancers weren't allowed to date customers
so I courted a few
he caught me spending the night in the house where some of the dancers stayed and told his nephew to break my arm
but he changed his mind and hired me
I never knew about his death until I saw the story on Dixie Mafia
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#60 Feb 3, 2013
"The Dixie Mafia" whether referring to the crooks who killed the judge or referring to the Italian mob in New Orleans doesn't really exist any more. Makes for great stories but has that organization existed @ all in the past decade even or 20 years?
I haven't heard anything about the "Dixie Mob" in over 20 years. did these ppl die out?
#61 Feb 6, 2013
most of you are full of BS the Dixie Mafia has never existed and never will just as the A&E recent show tried to show case them has a gang that is actually known as the Simon City Rollers which is a bunch of white rejects it s a shame that people still try to keep the myth of the Dixie Mafia alive and try to make everything that happened on the coast controlled by them I also grew up on hte coast and had family members that owned bars and a few that ended up behind bars including myself but just because someone claims to be in a mythical group doesnt make it so if their were such a group I dont believe anyone would admit to being in it especially here where I am sure the government could track anyone here they wanted to but I do miss the good ole days on the coast
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Working in the gas and oil industry can be rewarding in terms of finances, and many people make a good living working in this industry. However, this is an industry that also comes with higher risks when it comes to workers contracting illnesses or suffering injuries as well as being one where many workers have fluctuating hours and income, although this is not always the case.
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This does mean that gas and oil workers represent a greater risk to insurance firms, which in turn means that getting protective insurance to safeguard at least part of their income in the future could be more difficult and expensive that for regular workers. However, it is possible to get some competitive deals on income protection insurance for gas and oil workers, which makes it all the more important to compare the deals on offer from a range of providers so that you can get the best deal possible on your cover.
more and more insurance providers are now offering affordable income protection insurance for gas and oil workers, which will boost your chances of being able to find the right cover at the right price.
According to reports, more and more insurance providers are now offering affordable income protection insurance for gas and oil workers, which will boost your chances of being able to find the right cover at the right price. The increasing choice of cover for those working in this industry means that you can now get the protection that you want for your income, despite being in an industry that represents increased risks.
You can compare income protection insurance for gas and oil workers with speed and ease via the Internet, which is the most simple and effective way of finding cover that is perfectly suited to your requirements. You need to make sure that you check key areas of the plan before you make your decision, as this will help to ensure that you do not end up compromising on your cover or paying too much for your plan. Some of the areas of income protection insurance for gas and oil workers that you need to compare includes:
- The premiums that you have to pay: For most people in the current climate, the cost of premiums is a very important consideration and this is also true for gas and oil workers. The cost of income protection can vary from one plan and provider to another, so you need to make sure you check out what's available
- The level of coverage that you are able to get: You should make sure that you compare the maximum level of income that you can protect with any of the plans that you are considering. This generally goes up to 75 percent of the standard income but can vary significantly, particularly with specialist income protection plans for specific occupations
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Why Gas and Oil Workers Still Need Income Protection Even if You Have WorkCover
As an employee in the gas and oil industry you'll have certain income protection benefits through WorkCover, the nationwide workers compensation scheme that's administered by the various state and territory governments. Some self employed contractors in the industry may also enjoy the same protection but at its best WorkCover is quite limited in its scope with benefits being tightly controlled and often slow in being paid.
It is this insecurity that has many workers in the industry taking out their own income protection insurance particularly since the NSW government tightened up on how the scheme was to operate in that state in the future by cutting out certain benefits that were there in the past and shortening the term benefits are to be paid over. WorkCover is always subjected to state and territory budget considerations and therefore always subjected to change. It's believed the Victorian and Queensland governments are looking at making similar cuts to their WorkCover entitlements in a similar way as NSW has already done.
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The frailties of WorkCover are based around the following facts:
- You are only covered while you are actually at work, not when off work
- You will receive a lump sum or regular payment as compensation if you become injured or ill at work but the administrators of WorkCover still have the power to withhold payments until your level of disability is clear
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Paul van de Berg, architect and former teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam. He invited Boris the-pass-on-Lomo to spend the week at the canals of Amsterdam. The beautiful black and white photos and anecdotes tell Paul's life story.
*Who did Boris end up with and what's his life like? *
My name is Paul and I'm an old space cadet. My life consists of throwing away loads of paper. I also like to read and write, and occasionally I go to concerts or the theater. Once a week I go to the art academy to talk to students.
How did Boris end up with you and which assignment did you get?
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Were you familiar with Lomography before?
My best and favorite camera is the Leica. I shot a lot with Kodak, Yashica, Polaroid and Rolleiflex cameras, but never with Lomography before.
How did you like having Boris around?
I stopped photographing when my eye sight got worse after I had a stroke a few years ago. I say I'm "beyond the image" – I'm freed from the actual image, I don't have to look primarily. This experience with Boris to me is like a temporary relapse.
How did Boris become part of your life during this week?
Boris was with me all the time and that made me more aware of my surroundings, constantly on the lookout for things to capture.
What did you like taking photos of with Boris?
Nothing really stood out. I took Boris everywhere, to all my day-to-day activities. And that is what I captured. Here there and everywhere, quite ordinary locations. Bingo evening at the Spijkerbar, the Scheltema café, the Gemeente Museum in The Hague and the Concertgebouw, that kind of things.
What would you like to be the assignment for the next owner?
The next owner's assignment will be to take a first love photo – an assignment you may interpret as you wish!
See all photos taken with Boris by Paul in "this": http://www.lomography.nl/homes/borisdedoorgeeflomo/albums/1904710-host-13-paul-vd-berg album. Every three weeks you'll be able to read and see in our magazine what Boris has been up to with his new hosts. A little impatient of just too excited? Follow Boris on Facebook or Twitter to stay up to date.
All Boris' adventures so far:
- Liveloving human snowball Omar Kbiri
- Dutch lomographer Pien van Dis
- Visual genious Lize Korpershoek a.k.a. Lizepietje
- Text cloud-master Kakhiel
- Copywriter Ilse Beekhof
- Rapper Willem de Bruin
- Band Bat Country
- Graphic designer Freshco
- DJ and producer Sotu the Traveller
- Visual artist Roxanne Dekker
- Designer Patricia Hofstede
- Artist and museum director Aukje Dekker
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BANGOR, Maine—Everyone in the U.N. seems to accept the fact that there is going to be great difficulty in the Security Council in naming the next Secretary–General, and hence it is clear that a person of world stature is needed to fill the gap left by the almost irreplaceable Dag Hammarskjold.
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