🖋️ LongForm
Want to reduce the noice and just focus on things with a little more meat - the this category is for you. Like so much on this site we have a ‘WIP’ as i take some out - and put some in - but safe for at least starting in 2026.
Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Silicon Valley - Leaders Of The Pack ... Or Ice Pack ?
Posted this today across a couple of spaces : http://beyondbridges.net/2016/05/silicon-valley-laggard-best-workplace-practice/ - and depending on feedback - it might getter a wider publication next week.
Truth
Sometimes the simplest image conveys what we all feel - but we can’t QUITE encapsulate. Follow your passion is the ‘new meme’ .. and then there is this ...
UC Davis Innovation Week
There are some really clever ideas emerging from The UC Davis Innovation Week.
It's 1999 All Over Again - Follow Us
If you are interested in following the tweets of us 1999ers - pop over here
Euthanasia ...
I am waiting for the next big debate to be truly talked about .. open and honestly.
One Of Those Sharing Ideas Things
I am not sure if Dave's system is / can run some kind of aggregator or list of all of us who are running 1999 sites, but it did strike me that the nature of the people involved with this might be interesting to each other.
So, I took the liberty of adding those people who had already posted their 'first post here' on Google Docs - to a folder in my Feedly - which you can access here.
If this is useful - I will continue to add to that group as I become aware of other sites. On the flip side - that URL is in the public domain - and if you do not want to be listed there - let me know.
Letting me know is best done via 'replies' to this post.
Thankyou for you attention.
First Thoughts On 1999
First thing to point out ... I definitely am not a techy - but love what Dave Winer keeps on pushing with his work around the open web. That is why I signed on here and am loving what I am seeing.
I installed 1999 yesterday without a hitch. I have hit a couple of issues of Java exceptions that I have not reported - since I can't really get a repeatable case. The 'switch it off - switch it on' again solution has worked every time.
I love the live updating. Simple to use. As Mr Jobs used to say "It just works".
Seperately I am compiling a short list of nice to haves that I will post at sometime in the future - not yet though, I am still playing.
I hit a bug with RSS which I posted into Github - and Dave reponded VERY quickly - which in turn made me read the documentation. Sorry Dave. The documentation included this post. Duly read. Duly absorbed.
I think there is similar behavior with how 1999 works as with DayONE, of which I am a long time user. DayONE's recent changes cut off my ability to share from my personal journal into the big wide world. I wonder if there is synergy between them and this. Don't know.
Depite getting RSS recognized by IFTTT - thanks to reading Dave's documentation, I still haven't got the recipe working - it says it is working - but nothing is posting into the stream. Still thinking.
I also notice that I am not getting live updating on my blog of these posts. I have added the RSS widget on the menu bar to the left - and it has picked up the first few posts - but nothing since. If anyone is interested, it is running here on Beyond Bridges scroll all the way down to the bottom left headed 1999 Feed. None of this reported, since it still may be me - who knows. However, I did note that when I checked the feed at The W3C Feed Validation Service - it recognizes a valid feed - but at the same time lists a number of areas that it calls out under an initial statement
"This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations."
All that said ... I am loving this - very happy bunny.
Thankyou.
Building An Index
http://thisisindexed.com/2016/04/important-people-life/
Love Indexed - trying to come up with the right phrasing for the bottom two quadrants.
I Liked Dave's post this morning ....
http://scripting.com/2016/04/22/1207.html
... as I wrote yesterday, auspicious that the day his project 1999 widens out for testing with a larger group on the very day that Prince passed.
Integration
Delighted to report that my 1999 RSS feed is now displayed on my blog at www.beyondbridges.net
Beginning To Connect My Apps Across The Internets
Big day today as I revamped 'Beyond Bridges', dabbled in 'The Grid' - and now launched into '1999'
Retirement
You can retire to Phoenix , Arizona where...
- You are willing to park 3 blocks away from your house because you found shade.
- You’ve experienced condensation on your hiney from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
- You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
- You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
- You know that “dry heat” is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
- The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??
You can retire to California where...
- You make over $450,000 and you still can’t afford to buy a house.
- The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
- You know how to eat an artichoke.
- You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
- When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
- The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought
You can retire to New York City where...
- You say “the city” and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan ….
- You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can’t find Wisconsin on a map.
- You think Central Park is “nature.”
- You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
- You’ve worn out a car horn. ( IF you have a car).
- You think eye contact is an act of aggression.
You can retire to Minnesota where...
- You only have three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup …
- Halloween costumes have to fit over parkas.
- You have seventeen recipes for casserole.
- Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
- The four seasons are: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road repair. 6. The highest level of criticism is “He is different, she is different or It was different!
You can retire to the Deep South where...
- You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
- “Y’all” is singular and “all y’all” is plural.
- “He needed killin” is a valid defense.
- Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Joe Bob, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc etc.
- Everywhere is either “in yonder,” “over yonder” or “out yonde”..
You can retire to Colorado where...
- You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
- You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and so he stops at the day care center.
- A pass does not involve a football or dating.
- The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.
You can retire to the Nebraska where...
- You’ve never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
- Your idea of a traffic jam is three cars waiting to pass a tractor.
- You have had to switch from “heat” to “A/C” on the same day.
- You end sentences with a preposition: “Where’s my coat at.
You can retire to Florida where...
- You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
- All purchases include a coupon of some kind – even houses and cars.
- Everyone can recommend an excellent cardiologist, dermatologist, proctologist, podiatrist, or orthopedist.
- Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
- Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.
ITS.A.JOKE.PEOPLE
Originally Posted On Humor.Philpin.com - a now defunct site. I moved the content here for posterity. The date of this post is the date that it was originally published on that site.