Brian L. Colbert

Archive for March, 2009

Had fun time at the interesting Seasteading March Social in Berkeley at the Starry Plough.  Hadn’t been exposed to much Seasteading or the philosophy behind it, but definitely enjoyed today’s Meetup.

Tyler Willis, who introduced me to the concept of seasteading, told me about a recent event he attended: Redpath Seminar: The Future of Asia.  Go check out his notes here.

Beautiful weather in California today.  Wandered around Berkeley, where I stopped into Comic Relief, on of the US better comic book stores.  I wandered into a document about women superheroes or women in superheroes comics.  Whatever the topic, it doesn’t seem like there is a lot to talk about.

Been an extremely busy week here in San Francisco

Last night I was a the Oakland East Bay Symphony OEBS for a wonderful set of performances conducted by

fellow Oberlin Alum Maestro Morgan.  I got to share some Thai food with new friends, Paula, Dave, Conway and Leslie.  It was a great East Bay evening.

Last friday, I had the pleasure of listening to a very interesting presentation by Michael Bush of the MattMarr Group. Vicky executive director of CALICO, of which I am a board member was kind enough to invite me to the presentation.

Spent f time last week reviewing the panelist and attendees at the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco

I’m frequently, infrequently, never asked why I blog.  Well, if anybody ever asked me, it’s a combination of several reasons: a) I enjoy writing, b) I’ve got of thoughts rolling around that I’d like to share, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff on the web to share (that was an easy one).   More suprising, I actually have readers, I suspect that most of the are business associates, friends and family, but it’s nice all the same.

And what caught my eye, well it appears that you can in in fact teach an old dog new tricks.  Fidel Castro is apparently blogging about the World Baseball Series or whatever it’s call Reflections by Comrade Fidel.  Link courtesy of Tom Verducci.

On of the interesting things about Facebook is that once a single person from one of your your relationship circles finds you, the rest of the circle can find you.  An old friend of mine that I went to school with from 1st to 8th grade recently found my sister on FB, then he found me and now I’m slowly getting back in touch with my former classmates.  I even get updates about those classmates that aren’t and probably never will be on FB.   Certainly, I expect that the 8th-graders of today will never lose touch with any of their classmates, give the prevalence of FB, other and future social networks and persistent email addresses.  It was touch to keep in touch with former classmates that moved to the next town let along moved to a different state.   More power to social media

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Had some sushi outside in Japantown today.  Grabbed some rolls at  Nijiay Market and camped in front of the pagoda.  Dipped into Ichiban Kan, because there’s alwasy something cheap and interesting.

This afternoon I hopped up my Posterous site this blog and to www.briancolbert.mp.

I also connected my FB account to my twitter account

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