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BobMetcalfe

  1. My weight: 235.2 lb. 56.6 lb to go. Need to reverse trend, get BMI under obese, catch @LarsPerk. withings.com
  2. You sell newspapers and # of customers wanting a copy each day is uniformly distributed over X to Y. What's your order for tomorrow?
  3. @neiltyson ... only when results conflict with their politics, religion, or science.
  4. UTAustin commencement highlights - bit.ly/LBIKtJ - [~8,000 graduates. Everything is big in Texas.]
  5. Chris, bartender at Atlantica Restaurant in Camden, Maine, has been teaching high school economics - micro & macro - for 7 years.
  6. Non-geeks are satisfied thinking they know how to ask the right questions. Geeks (my people) know answers, Grasshopper.
  7. Arrived Maine on Penobscot Bay, where it is, just the way I like it, foggy. Camden for dinner tonight. Lobsta? Good night's sleep ahead.
  8. Austin's Bazaarvoice public >$1B, just acquired largest competitor PowerReviews $150M - bit.ly/K68MWz - [Congratulations to both!]
  9. Drive to ME, 4 hours of talk radio: Obama running against Capitalism. Backfiring. Dems worried he's doubling down. Go ahead, make my day.
  10. @slfisher Yes, Shirley Jackson in my freshman class '68 at MIT; she invited me some years back to give RPI's commencement address.
  11. Don't miss my commencement speech on June 9 at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth - bit.ly/Ieozhj - "There is no box."
  12. Working on lecture about math of Ethernet and have again fallen in love with Poisson processes and exponential PDFs (;->).
  13. Bravo! SpaceX Dragon capsule on course for space station arrival - bit.ly/KxOnc2
  14. The Motley Fool says Metcalfe's Law supports values of Facebook far more than $100 billion - aol.it/KZoD6p
  15. MIT Dean of Engineering Ian Waitz is on board of MIT-Harvard's edX, told me faculty coming out of woodwork even at this early stage.
  16. @joshuabaer Everybody needs an editor. If you can't find one, take a break and change fonts for a fresh look.
  17. Austin, Texas Earns Title of South's Small-Business Champion - bit.ly/Jgx6kf
  18. Tonight, MIT Bioengineering. Tomorrow, Maine, the way life should be.
  19. Do startup whateverators do good? Think so. Proof? Feels so good. - on.wsj.com/KOjF0f - [Kauffman working on study? Caveat emptor.]
  20. @joshuabaer And the special hypocrisy is that unions' homeless picketers are not union members, they are outsourced low-wage scabs.