Category Archives: Friends, Family, Life

My thoughts and prayers Antonella

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It’s coming up on the one year anniversary of my Mom’s passing. Antonella Pavese, who had an entirely different relationship with her Mom, then I had with mine, shares so much in a post that I feel I can relate to.

Antonella Pavese: Of things lost, of things found:

Slowly walking our karmic circles over and over again. I’m holding her hand, still cold but trusting, as I steer her away from furnitures and walls.

I look at my mother and I realize that all the memories she didn’t tell me about, all the memories I didn’t listen to are gone forever. All is left is this moment, in which she and I walk in circles, hand in hand, in a medium size apartment in Rome, the capital of a country with a painful past. In a few days, I will be thousands of miles away from this moment and this place. Right now, I’m here.

Thank you for sharing that Antonella. My heart goes out to you.

“a Manual for our Kids to Save the Future”?

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That’s what John Baichtal at his Wired Blog “Geek Dad” called Cory Doctorow’s book sci-fi novel “Little Brother”, in his glowing review posted last week.

While you can download the book for free legally from the website, I’m going to want to buy a copy for the bookshelf – it’s a great book so far.

One of the best purchases of mine these past few months was following his comic book series “Futuristic Tales” from IDW. As a sci-fi and comic book fan, I gotta tell ya, it was worth every penny.

Once around the Comcaster way

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Congrats to Livia Labate on being voted for the IA Institute Board of Directors.

Kevin Fitzpatrick posted some good advice: Don’t hide your ideas.

Anandhan Subbiah, my manager at CIM, redesigned his blog.

And I was Burningbird-ed in reference to a post about Tim Berners-Lee’s new foundation initiative. The tech community seems not engaged.

Social Networking for Babies?

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I realize I post about Emma here and in a way am already taking part in something like this, still, there is something profoundly unsettling about this.

NYTimes: Twittering From the Cradle:

Call it convenient. Call it baby overshare. But a host of new sites, including Totspot, Odadeo, Lil’Grams and Kidmondo, now offer parents a chance to forgo the e-mail blasts of, say, their newborn’s first trip home and instead invite friends and family to join and contribute to a network geared to connecting them to the baby in their lives.

“It’s an interesting model,” said Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist for the Pew Internet & American Life Project. “Everyone can decide how much or little they want to know about a baby, which avoids the situation of receiving a few too many e-mails about someone’s wonderful child, and parents can decide how much they want to share — in minimal or maximal ways.”

But does the world really need online social networking for babies?

Naked Man Shocked With Taser

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How we treat the mentally ill says a lot about how we think of our fellow man.

Local6.com Florida: Naked Dog Walker Shocked With Taser

And caught on film: CNN: Women dies in ER waiting room, her condition thought to be nothing more than “agitation and psychosis.”.

And just a reminder from LiveScience.com: Why We Are All Insane

Nikki Sixx on National Recovery Month

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“Here we are a year later and [I’m thinking], ‘What can I talk about, what can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month?'” he says. “A friend of mine said, ‘You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people’s lives, that’s something to talk about.’ It’s a year later and the book is still selling, and it’s still changing people’s lives.”

Discussing the wisdom he’s gleaned from his own recovery efforts, Sixx he’s noticed preaching to addicts that they need to stop usually doesn’t help. The “Diaries” song “Accidents Can Happen” relates to how relapse is part of recovery.

“What I used to be told [was], ‘What the f*ck’s wrong with you? Why can’t you do like everybody else? Why can’t you stop? Why can’t you act right?'” he recalls, saying “Accidents Can Happen” attempts to convey that “We all fall off the wagon. It’s only one day, it’s not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again. And I think if someone had told me that at times in my life, it would have been a lot better than being ripped apart.

The purpose of “Diaries” was to deliver a message to the masses. When it comes to his personal life, Sixx tries to show by example that sobriety is cool.

Source: sleezrox.com: Nikki Sixx on Nation Recover Month.

BTW – “Accidents Can Happen” is a terrific, terrific song. Better than anything Motley Crue has released in years. Downright powerful.