07.27.08

Extreme Reunions

Posted in ramblings at 9:15 pm by Nate Smith

I just had my 20 year high school class reunion.  It was great to see so many people I had not seen at all in all that time.  Like salmon returning to the headwaters; I had an intense curiosity about what others in my class had been doing.  So it was great to see everyone and reflect and catch up.  Turns out everyone is really doing many of the same things.  There should be something more….

Extreme Reunions:  You get together with those people you know from so long ago and get thrust in to a dangerous and/or uncomfortable circumstance in order to make some new memories together.    Strand the whole reunion class on an island or lock them in a game preserve with hungry lions.  Drop them off in a swamp and have them make their way out together.  Serve together on a fishing boat or build a house for habitat for humanity.  Take it up a notch and make things interesting.

If anybody from my class reads this, what say we get together in five years and test our mettle?    Maybe somebody will buy the rights for a reality show?  Outward bound reunion anyone?

07.16.08

Web too point oh!

Posted in rant at 2:49 pm by Nate Smith

Somebody is messing with our buzzwords.   That’s right; there is a shift from calling web 2.0 the “semantic web” to calling it the “social web”.  I think O’Reilly may be pushing the change.

Web 2.0 is like art, you will know it when you see it.

07.01.08

The problem with money trees

Posted in ramblings at 6:23 pm by Nate Smith

The problem with money trees is that you have to have two in order for them to bear fruit and chances are, you aren’t going to find another one when you are looking.