GARRICK BROWN | MEMENTO MORI
Monday 2/8/2010

The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds.

looks good.

gsb:

Hung some boards and art in the office.

“A new Google domain — 1e400.net, a nod to the company’s famously misspelled name — is now the net’s 44th most visited site. Google says the domain is used to ‘identify servers’ on its internal network, hinting that reverse DNS plays a role. The domain was registered in September and launched in October, about the same time Google unveiled Spanner, a new addition to its backend infrastructure designed to automatically shift loads between its data centers.”

(via jebgutelius)

Sunday 2/7/2010

"So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us develop a tranquil mind."

BYRAM — A 46-year-old woman who worked as an assistant in the Byram Township building department has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $6,000 in building fees, the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office said today.

Saturday 2/6/2010

looks like a good ride.

(via greysonbrown)

I still think this photo is doctored.  Joe is on a roll here,  keep it up.

joeconnelly:

this picture is over two years old, but was taken at the time to show gary the excitement surrounding the arrival of the iphone. better late than never.

Friday 2/5/2010

gsb:

greysonbrown:

Greyson video conferencing with Uncle Jeb.

Hello Joe,

joeconnelly:

“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. 
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” 
— Howard Zinn

The competition, which the city’s Economic Development Corporation kicked off in June, gave software developers access to more than 170 sets of data from 30 city agencies, including weekly traffic updates, schedules of citywide events, property sales, results of restaurant inspections and mappable data around school and voting districts.

Thursday 2/4/2010

Our Congress is broken. Even at a moment of extraordinary crisis, Members spend an endless amount of time simply raising campaign cash. We need Congress to focus; to address the problems that burden America; to do its job.

"collaborative effort that incorporates both the U.S. private sector and our international partners"