JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-30
December 30, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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- @natalidelconte just saw u on CBS, the news guy was a bit of a dork, w/ the whole hat thing. Great job! in reply to natalidelconte #
- @shortyawards @garystager #education – u rock in the learning world! in reply to shortyawards #
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JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-29
December 29, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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- Time 2 head 4 LAX. Missing them already. #
- Boarded on flight home 2 Orlando. Just wanna kick back & sleep. Bringing a sore throat w/ me. Ack. #
- Doors closing, going 2 airplane mode. Back online in 6 hours. #
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Share this Post[?] JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-28
December 28, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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- Happy Sunday morning twitterverse, last day in LA, just a long phone w/ a former roommate, ben. Gr8 time catching up. Now back 2 sleep #
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Share this Post[?] JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-27
December 27, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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- Just a bit dead @ taco beach… Aimee & Katie are here
, need few more females on this side of the bar http://snipurl.com/95cwq # - Way too many guys gathered at taxi beach for this to be constructive. Ack #
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Share this Post[?] JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-26
December 26, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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- One thing about my CA Xmas vacation, s #
- One thing about my CA Xmas vacation, so far I’m getting a lot of sleep. That’s a good thing. Party at TacoBeach tonight = no sleep…
# - @alanataylor that’s what’s been missing: eggs & tamales. Yum. in reply to alanataylor #
- @SlyM omg, sly, the kids are so cute. What a wonderful holiday photo in reply to SlyM #
- So 1 downside of family vacation is waiting 4 everyone’s morning routine b4 going out 2 breakfast. I’m hungry, about 2 become cranky #
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Share this Post[?] JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-25
December 25, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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- k, finally signing in @ sister’s long beach home. Yay FIOS! 2 bad i’m dead tired (it’s 2:58AM EST). Got a nap this aftrnoon. happy xmas yall #
- @DannyTRS try twinkle on the iPhone. Lots of cool feature in reply to DannyTRS #
- perfect xmas morning, cold & drizzly outside, family lounging, dogs chasing each other inside, new pretenders CD playing in the background #
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Share this Post[?] The Lie of the 4th Screen
December 25, 2008 by joe.bustillos
Filed under JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Media Buzz, education re-examined
The following video was brought to my attention by a coworker as we both love watching stuff being presented at the TED conference. Alas, this video continues what I believe is a false cultural perception about the increasing general dehumanizing nature of technology. Admittedly it needs to be a bit bias, it’s a Nokia ad. But there is something that the ad misses about why these technologies succeed.
From the big screen to the small, the ad would have us believe that what was once shared (the big screen), was lost in the next two steps (TV & computers) but wonderfully recaptured in this latest iteration, specifically the N-Series Nokia devices. Um… bullshit.
Share this Post[?] Answering eHarmony Questions – “What’s the Skinny” edition
December 25, 2008 by joe.bustillos
Filed under God, Relationships and Family, Sex & the SingleBrainCell
I’ve been an e-Harmony member long enough that I’m beginning to wonder if I might be eligible for some prize, just for hanging in there so long. It’s that old adage: the older I get the pickier I get and the less marketable I get. No fun. Actually it’s not that bad. Occasionally someone will say something nice and it’s just enough for me to ramp up again and give it another try. Only problem is that occasionally I’ll have a great question/answer exchange that normally would only be shared between my matches and myself, which frustrates the writer in me.
For example, one young lady asked: In your Must Haves/Can’t Stands profile, you state that you “can’t stand someone who is overweight.” Hopefully, you can see from my photos that I am in no way “Skinny.” I’m a “Healthy size” girl! :- ) Where does that leave us?”
Share this Post[?] My Year with the OLPC – NR4PT
December 25, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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Around this time last year I was very excited to receive my OLPC (One Laptop per Child), called the XO-1. Having drunk the Negroponte gatorade I was endlessly frustrated with Dvorak and other tech journalists who kept their criticism of the XO-1 focused on either Negroponte’s eccentricities or the fact that the creators made it specifically to not be a Windows PC. The concept, begun at MIT’s Media Lab, that technology in education is not about training students to be little MS Office drones but to use computers to teach programming in order to teach thinking and communication seemed to waft past the XO-1′s dissenters. Leo Laporte and David Pogue got that the little green XO-1 wasn’t about attacking an untapped technology market, but was an humanitarian cause to bring the gift of technology to Third World classrooms.
In the ISTE Keynote address that I heard Negroponte introduce the XO-1 he quipped that they must be doing something right to have raised the ire of Intel and Bill Gates. Alas, maybe the joke in the end was on Negroponte when Intel promised to play fair but couldn’t resist the temptation to undercut Negroponte’s “humanitarian cause” and sell their competing kid-size ultra-light laptop, the Classmate, to the same countries Negroponte was trying to reach. So the Gospel according to Negroponte fell on deaf ears because the Win/Tel hegemony couldn’t hear the words for the vastness, opportunities and profits presented in possibility of harvesting the Third World educational/government technology nickel.
This holiday season the OLPC foundation is repeating their give one/get one campaign that I participated in last year to get my own XO-1, only this time they’re working with Amazon.com to get the word out and do the distribution. The commercials are very cute. My own XO-1 sits on a top shelf in my bedroom, part of my shrine to sentimental technology I’ve previously invested in (I really wish I had kept one of my old Kaypros to put in the shrine). I hate to think that Dvorak and the others might have been right after all.
JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-24
December 24, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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- Wah, ventured out 2 local Ritz Camera looking 4 strap & holster 4 Canon Rebel & lens shade. Fail. Maybe Tuttle Camera in Long Beach will do #
- k twitterverse, time 4 me 2 switch off the laptop 2 pack it 4 the trip 2 CA. Switching 2 iPhone mode. 2:30am departure from Seigel’s 2 MCO #
- At MCO. Damn, no baggage check-in 4 an hour. Sitting in wicker chair (no headrest) on the street aide of TSA, this is gonna one long day #
- $10 for breakfast and my flight’s delayed. Welcome 2 the wonderful world of modern travel. I’m gonna have fun anyway #
- I’m dreaming of a grey Xmas in lala land. Arrived safely in the land of my birth. Let’s see if I survive la traffic #
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