Well, life continues even if you don't blog. Here's the update: The crazy, high stress, long hours job I obliquely referred to the last time I posted lo six months ago was being a New York City rental real estate broker. Um, I'm not one anymore. It turns out that even if you get totally obsessed with it and work 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day doing everything you're told will further your career you still don't necessarily succeed. Who knew? I've been out of the real estate hustle for about a month now and the time has been pretty much filled with copious amounts of television viewing, with some wine drinking and nice home cooked meals thrown in for good measure. Times is tough. With both me and Kim not really working full-time simultaneously since August of 2004 we're really starting to feel the crunch. We had to cancel both HBO and Netflix. I don't know which hurt more. This is a particularly sad state of affairs when you don't have the money to go out and a bottle of pinot, some chips and hummus, and a night of HBO/Netflix is the most exciting thing you have to look forward to. I can't explain my disappointment at not getting to watch the first new season of The Sopranos in five years or whatever. Why am I so upset? It's not even like I'm a huge fan of the show, which I've always thought is way overrated and which has gone way downhill even on those terms. It's at not being part of the whole adult business opportunity pop cultural conversation. I hate being unaware of anything pop cultural.
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According to a just released survey of commuters from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) the percentage of commuters teleworking in the Washington, D.C. area has jumped from 13% to 19% in just three years. Following up on our story of a couple days ago ( D.C. Region's Drive Alone Rate Goes Down! , July 18, 2007) comes more good news from the Preliminary Draft Commuter Connections State of the Commuter 2007 Survey Technical Report prepared for the MWCOG's Commuter Connections program by LDA Consulting with CIC Research. According to COG's July 18 press release (PDF) that accompanied the report, the third "State of the Commute" agm battery cycle deep survey reveals that 19 percent of commuters in the region have teleworked, or performed their regular office duties from home in 2007 and that this is a significant change from 2004, when 13 percent of respondents said they teleworked. Other telework highlights from the survey: Telecommuters worked from home for an average of 1.5 days per week. 24 percent of those who did not telecommute said they would choose to do so if employers were to give them the opportunity. 40 percent of those who do work from home said their employer offer formal programs - compared to 32 percent in 2004 and 27 percent in 2001. 16 percent of respondents who worked for federal agencies teleworked, compared to 12 percent in 2004 and 7 percent in 2001.
I was disturbed to read a pandering post by a Google employee that decries Michael Moore's documentary Siko and offers advertising as a means for the U.S. health care industry. Others were, and Google's official position that was no position. Dan Farber has been following the story , and added this update: Update 2: Now we have an explanation dial up internet service provider from Ms. Turner regarding how to read her post. She just meant to state Google’s position that “advertising is a very democratic and effective way to participate in a public dialogue.” I won’t argue with the idea of advertising as democratic. Anyone with the money or winning bid can get their message out into the ether. But ads tend to be one-sided sales pitches without footnotes, not a public dialog. If we want a public dialog, having the two opposing sides in a public debate would be a far better way to educate the public. I will argue with the idea of advertising as democratic. It is the opposite. Spending isn't speech. Sure, U.S. health care can buy ads to be placed in context alongside public discourse. But not everyone can. It concerns me that the bright people at Google could be talking themselves into believing that either advertising is democracy, let alone that it helps democracy. If the U.S. health care industry really wants to respond to Sicko, they will engage in, if not host, online communities for civic dialog. However, most online communities these days are powered by advertising.
I was disturbed to read a pandering post by a Google employee that decries Michael Moore's documentary Siko and offers advertising as a means for the U.S. health care industry. Others were, and Google's official position that was no position. Dan Farber has been following the story , and added this update: Update 2: Now we have an explanation from Ms. Turner regarding how to read her post. She just meant to state Google’s position that “advertising is a very democratic and effective way to participate in a public dialogue.” I won’t argue with the idea of advertising as democratic. Anyone with the money or winning bid can get their message out into the ether. But ads tend to be one-sided sales pitches without footnotes, not a emergency air ambulance public dialog. If we want a public dialog, having the two opposing sides in a public debate would be a far better way to educate the public. I will argue with the idea of advertising as democratic. It is the opposite. Spending isn't speech. Sure, U.S. health care can buy ads to be placed in context alongside public discourse. But not everyone can. It concerns me that the bright people at Google could be talking themselves into believing that either advertising is democracy, let alone that it helps democracy. If the U.S. health care industry really wants to respond to Sicko, they will engage in, if not host, online communities for civic dialog. However, most online communities these days are powered by advertising.
The cinetrix had a singularly unpleasant and thwartful experience in Terminal B of Logan International Airport on Sunday. How bad? The cinetrix should probably defer to the 'Fesser on this one. An evil gate agent made the cinetrix sob openly and uncontrollably, in public, for several minutes. So, any Pullquote readers who happened to attempt to fly American [you thought I was going to say JetBlue ? Maybe Delta ?] on Sunday afternoon, that was me. Once the decision regarding whether I would be present to teach my classes [no] yesterday [not a holiday here] was taken out of our hands, we had dinner with my conveniently proximate brother and sister-in-law and caught Breach . The cinetrix can't vouch for its quiet power over people who haven't spent part of the day in/near hysterics, but we all liked it and you should go see it. It's February, people. There ain't much else out there. "Based on the true story" of how F.B.I. agent and uber-traitor Robert Hanssen was finally brought down, Breach is an immensely satisfying little act-off between Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe [brunet here to announce his seriousness], punctuated by occasional steely bitch operatics courtesy of Laura Linney. [Gotta say I still think back to her turn as sweet Maryann in Tales of the City in hobby shop new york wonderment. She was so innocent then!] The flick also offers Wonderfalls fans a chance to catch up with the amazing Caroline Dhavernas , who plays Phillippe's shut-out wife.
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A few days ago I was introduced to a new horse that would be moving to our barn. I was asked to trailer him over to our place and without hesitation I volunteered. When it was mentioned that this was my 'specialty' I then became skeptical and was wondering what I had gotten myself into. I have to admit when I hear 'trailer loading' a part of me gets excited thinking about the challenge that may lie ahead. Another part of me gets apprehensive that the day will come where I meet a horse that doesn't do anything I expect it to and I give up. Well, this day finally did come when I arrived to pick up the new horse. I ended up spending over an hour playing with this horse trying to find out where he was at mentally. He had a few good attempts to load but I finally gave up after realizing I was running late to my next appointment and someone else offered to pull him in their stock trailer. Leaving the barn I was trying to figure out where I had gone wrong and what I could have done to improve. Not much promo packs came to mind. I came home and reported how I had my first trailer loading failure. The following day the new owner brought this horse into our arena to play. At that moment an amazing thing occurred, this horse joined up and followed me around the entire arena. I began to play with him and he yielded his entire body at liberty! I then realized that the previous day's event wasn't a failure but rather an undetected improvement.
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A few days ago I was introduced to a new horse that would be moving to our barn. I was asked to trailer him over to our place and without hesitation I volunteered. When it was mentioned that this was my 'specialty' I then became skeptical and was wondering what I had gotten myself into. I have to admit when I hear 'trailer loading' a part of me gets excited thinking about the challenge that may lie ahead. Another part of me gets apprehensive that the day will come where I meet a horse that doesn't do anything I expect it to and I give up. Well, this day finally did come when I arrived to pick up the new horse. I ended up spending over an hour playing with this horse trying to find out where he was at mentally. He had a few good attempts to load but I finally gave up after realizing I was running late to my next appointment and someone else offered to pull him in their stock trailer. Leaving the barn I was trying to figure out where I had gone wrong and what I could have done to improve. Not much came to mind. I came home and reported how I had my first trailer loading failure. The following day the new owner brought this horse into our arena to play. At that moment an amazing thing occurred, this horse joined up and followed me around the entire arena. I began to play with him and he yielded his entire body at liberty! I then realized that the previous day's event wasn't a failure but rather play casino roulette an undetected improvement.
Well, life continues even if you don't blog. Here's the update: The crazy, high stress, long hours job I obliquely referred to the last time I posted lo six months ago was being a New York City rental real estate broker. Um, I'm not one anymore. It turns out that even if you get totally obsessed with it and work 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day doing everything you're told will further your career you still don't necessarily succeed. Who knew? I've been out of the real estate hustle for about a month now and the time has been pretty much filled with copious amounts of television viewing, with some wine drinking and nice home cooked meals thrown in for good measure. Times is tough. With both me and Kim not really working full-time simultaneously since August of 2004 we're really starting to feel the crunch. We had to cancel both HBO and Netflix. I don't know which hurt more. This is a particularly swat hand signals sad state of affairs when you don't have the money to go out and a bottle of pinot, some chips and hummus, and a night of HBO/Netflix is the most exciting thing you have to look forward to. I can't explain my disappointment at not getting to watch the first new season of The Sopranos in five years or whatever. Why am I so upset? It's not even like I'm a huge fan of the show, which I've always thought is way overrated and which has gone way downhill even on those terms. It's at not being part of the whole pop cultural conversation. I hate being unaware of anything pop cultural.
I was disturbed to read a pandering post by a Google employee that decries Michael Moore's documentary Siko and offers advertising as a means for the U.S. health care industry. Others were, and Google's official position that was no position. Dan Farber has been following the story , and added this update: Update 2: Now we have an explanation from Ms. Turner regarding how to read her post. She just meant to state Google’s position that “advertising is a very democratic and effective way to participate in a public dialogue.” I won’t argue with the idea of advertising as democratic. Anyone with the money or winning bid can get their message out into the ether. But ads tend to be poster vans one-sided sales pitches without footnotes, not a public dialog. If we want a public dialog, having the two opposing sides in a public debate would be a far better way to educate the public. I will argue with the idea of advertising as democratic. It is the opposite. Spending isn't speech. Sure, U.S. health care can buy ads to be placed in context alongside public discourse. But not everyone can. It concerns me that the bright people at Google could be talking themselves into believing that either advertising is democracy, let alone that it helps democracy. If the U.S. health care industry really wants to respond to Sicko, they will engage in, if not host, online communities for civic dialog. However, most online communities these days are powered by advertising.
Well, life continues even if you don't blog. Here's the update: The crazy, high stress, long hours job I obliquely referred to the last time I posted lo six months ago was being a New York City rental real estate broker. Um, I'm not one anymore. It turns out that even if you get totally obsessed with it and work 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day doing everything you're told will further your career you still don't necessarily succeed. Who knew? I've been out of the real estate hustle for about a month now and the time has been pretty much filled with copious amounts of television viewing, with some wine drinking and nice home cooked meals thrown in for good measure. Times is tough. With both me and Kim not really working full-time simultaneously since August of 2004 we're really starting to feel the crunch. We had to cancel both HBO and Netflix. I don't know which hurt more. This is a particularly sad state of affairs when you don't have the money to go out and a bottle of pinot, some chips and hummus, and a night of HBO/Netflix is the most exciting thing you have to look forward to. I can't explain my disappointment at not getting to watch the first new season of The Sopranos in five years or whatever. Why am I so upset? It's not even like I'm a huge fan of the show, which I've always thought is way overrated and which has gone way downhill even on those terms. It's at not being part of the whole pop cultural jenny craig recipes conversation. I hate being unaware of anything pop cultural.
According to a just released survey of commuters from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) the percentage of commuters teleworking in the Washington, D.C. area has jumped from 13% to 19% in just three years. Following up on our story of a couple days ago ( D.C. Region's Drive Alone Rate Goes Down! , July 18, 2007) comes more good news from the Preliminary Draft Commuter Connections State of the Commuter 2007 Survey Technical Report prepared for the MWCOG's Commuter Connections program by LDA Consulting with CIC Research. According to COG's July 18 press release (PDF) that accompanied the report, the third "State of the Commute" survey reveals that 19 percent of commuters in the region have teleworked, or performed their regular office duties from home in 2007 and that this is a significant change from 2004, when 13 percent of respondents said they teleworked. Other telework highlights from the survey: Telecommuters hits worked from home for an average of 1.5 days per week. 24 percent of those who did not telecommute said they would choose to do so if employers were to give them the opportunity. 40 percent of those who do work from home said their employer offer formal programs - compared to 32 percent in 2004 and 27 percent in 2001. 16 percent of respondents who worked for federal agencies teleworked, compared to 12 percent in 2004 and 7 percent in 2001.
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