It came from Black Background: Matt Shobe's Blog…dogfooding my way to a better tomorrow.Bob Schieffer: wilier than you- June 24, 2007 CBS News' Bob Schieffer with the morning show money quote for June 24th: "The truth is I never asked Paris Hilton to be on Face The Nation, and for one reason, I couldn't think of anything I wanted to ask her."The whole commentary is very much worth the short read time. Bob, you're a lone voice in the wilderness, but you're no loon.http://www.burningdoor.com/matt/archives/002211.html From the Good Vibes Dept.- June 24, 2007 The running time of Boston I, at 37:08, is precisely the time required to drive to and from the now-retired FeedBurner offices in clear traffic, starting from my home. That's just the sort of kismet I can get behind.http://www.burningdoor.com/matt/archives/002210.html P-38 recovered from a glacier; resumes trip to England- June 23, 2007 This story from the IHT about a P-38 recovered from a glacier and restored, piece-by-piece, is just the sort of study hall boredom-killing tale I used to dream up in the 8th grade era. Wouldn't it be great if I found a plane no one knew about and could get it fixed up, and then I could fly it to Canada Funny that it never happened, at least not along the dirt bike trail that cut behind the subdivision on the other side of the 7-Eleven in Midland, Michigan. I probably should've spent a little...http://www.burningdoor.com/matt/archives/002209.html JetBlue: Hey, This Ain&8217;t Bad- June 18, 2007 As I suspect you already know if you&8217;re anything close to a regular reader of this blog, Google bought our company, FeedBurner, on June 1. It&8217;s been exciting ever since, as we took about exactly one weekend to reflect on this momentous event and then got nearly the entire company on planes and headed to New York andor Mountain View, CA to get started as &8220;Googlers.&8221; (We'll still be based in Chicago.) My team, the designers, has worked from Google&8217;s expansive New York...http://www.burningdoor.com/matt/archives/002208.html Cicada Update: They're Pretty Loud- June 3, 2007 There's been a fair amount of cicada anticipation and strategizing around here, and my comment has been "Boy, they really haven't been out in force in my neighborhood yet." That all changed yesterday: Now, this tiny, streaming video doesn't do justice to the keening roar a few hundred million cicadas make when you hear it in person, in full surround sound. But hopefully you have some idea of just what sort of alien invasion we're up against. Where's that confounded Jeff Goldblum and his.http://www.burningdoor.com/matt/archives/002204.html |