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I have no use for SR-01, but I want it all the same

The Wordpress and open source communities have lots of thoughts on Matt Mullenweg’s actions after his talk at WordCamp. Much of this commentary has overlooked what I think is a core concern at the heart of Matt’s argument: the growing role and influence of private equity in tech, particularly in open source. PE firms raise money from institutional investors and high net worth individuals to buy companies, restructure them, and …

Tenneson, Caitlin and I are running a three day leadership course for MacEwan University here in Edmonton. It starts tomorrow and we are having a great conversation at Remedy chai cafe about why meetings matter for folks studying leadership. Here are some of the insights. —- Meetings are microcosms for leadership practice. They are places to encounter one’s own leadership gifts and leadership challenges. What you learn when you host …

Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in November, but I don’t want to make any promises as I want to be sure that the book comes out as …

Its always good to start a book with a bang and This Gaming Life does just that. In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. From here the stage is set for Rossignol to take you on a semi-autographical tour of the real life …

The Little Prince is a fiendishly difficult story to stage. Antoine de Saint-Exupèry’s 1943 children’s book is episodic and deliberately meandering, its tales of the gulf between youth and adulthood incorporating a range of characters who appear and vanish in a blink of an eye, from a King who rules with an iron fist his uninhabited kingdom to a fox who is looking to be tamed. At its heart is …

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When I look back at the The Jetsons, a show that debuted in 1962 and lasted just one season during its first run, it’s easy to see how it inspired so many visions of the future that would occur in the 1960s, 70s and beyond. But what inspired The Jetsons? From the vantage point of the 2020s, we can forget that The Jetsons didn’t invent the idea of an optimistic …

The world of classical music – particularly in the second half of the 19th century – had more than its fair share of musical rivalries. But what if the tensions were between… a husband and wife? Written by Claire Novello and directed by Kenneth Michaels, The Dedication begins in 1902 in Vienna. At such a time, many ‘modern’ movements were gaining traction – the women’s right’s movement, the nascent field …

Matt and Sam talk to screenwriter Dorothy Fortenberry about families, gender, and the 2024 election.

Crazy amounts of money continue to be spent in San Francisco to shift the city rightward. We saw it in March with the purge of progressives on the Democratic County Central Committee after a heavily funded campaign by moderates under the ‘Democrats for Change’ slate. Astroturf (fake grassroots) groups like GrowSF, TogetherSF, StopCrimeSF, Neighbors for a Better SF (backed by a Republican mega-donor), Families for a Vibrant SF, and Committee …

Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t. She wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We won’t give her the chance. — Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 11, 2020 Here are all the times ex-GOP Rep. Liz Cheney ripped “radical” Kamala Harris …

Sojourn Booksellers, Stevens Point, WI(Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X)When you enter Sojourn Booksellers you will be leaving the streets of Stevens Point behind and SOJOURNING into a new dimension. A dimension that will take you back in time to a space in an 1880s building that features an old-school brown wooden floor, the original tin-plate ceiling, and long ago tales …

This week’s theme: John Coltrane as a sideman (mostly) with Red Garland. Artists include John Coltrane, Red Garland, Donald Byrd, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, Arthur Taylor, George Joyner.The post Podcast: John Coltrane with Red Garland, Prestige first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

Having recently viewed the hobbit trilogy, which included the Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, the Hobbit, the Desolation of Smaug, and the Hobbit the Battle of the Five Armies I was looking for more information about dragons and Smaug. This is a short treatsie on that topic.