Aweekstweets November 17 to December 1 2012: the biweekly I bought weakly,...
3mLed Zeppelin receiving the KennedyCenterhonors. Listening to "Nobody's Fault But Mine" from "Presence."5mGood Saturday morning of lazy nothingness around the Kobielus homestead. It was a November to...
View ArticleAweekstweets December 1-9 2012: the week I exhausted the house Rice Krispies...
5mWet paper. I asked the Washington Post to redeliver. At least the Web version never gets soggy, no matter how much I surf.7hPrescriptive analytics?: http://lnkd.in/BEGyjS 10hListening 2 Robert Goulet...
View ArticleKoby IBM Quick-Hits May 16 to December 13 2012
May 16Information glut?https://www.facebook.com/NetezzaCorp/posts/10151727573680198?comment_id=32677409&offset=0&total_comments=1May 17Sexy...
View ArticleKoby IBM Blogs, Articles, Podcasts, and Streams April to December 2012
Materializing the Data of Desire in Digital Marketinghttp://analyzingmedia.com/2012/materializing-the-data-of-desire-in-digital-marketing/Data Scientist: Sexy Is as Sexy DoesDecember 10, 2012Big Data,...
View ArticleAweekstweets December 9-15 2012: the week I decided to give aweekstweets a...
7hWaiting to see Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein of "Portlandia" on Letterman.8h@tunvall Who says we can't. That's defeatist talk.8hWe don't need gun control. What we need is to repeal the Second...
View ArticleAweekstweets Dec 15 2012 to Jan 4 2013: the week that trebled with devilish...
22mJust started streaming season 2 of "Portlandia" on Netflix and have stopped laughing only long enough to type this tweet.4hDude, what yer sayin' isn't germane to the issue. It isn't even tito,...
View ArticleAweekstweets January 4-12 2013: the week Google Earth invaded my personal space
55s#IBM has ESPN commercials. When in locker room at club & they come on, I loudly vocally echo "building a #smarterplanet". Stealth marketing1hWashed the cars. By myself. By hand. Outdoors. Short...
View ArticleAweekstweets January 12-19 2013: the week I socialized the sociogrammaticon
5mThe cooler, terser term for "social graph" is "sociogram."18hDrafted my next #IBMdatamagazine article: "Graph Analysis Powers the Social and Semantic Spheres of #BigData". Have a good weekend19h"Want...
View ArticleAweekstweets January 19-25 2013: the week it finally snowed hereabouts...
12mWeather Channel app tells me the moon is "waxing gibbous" right now. Painfully & suddenly ripping large sheets of fur from higher primates?4h"Why DNA Will Someday Replace the Hard Drive"...
View ArticleAweekstweets January 25 to February 2 2013: the week I sequenced my own...
2mGroundhog sees shadow and says we'll have 6 more weeks of what feels like extended November here in northern Virginia15hVH-1 decade lookbacks. Passing parade of coulda-beens & never-weres...
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Aweekstweets February 2-9 2013: the week I meditated on maturity
31mSin Cia Ju Yi to all our family and friends all over.42mPlease don't give snowstorms names. In fact, don't give any storms names. Even hurricanes. Makes 'em seem like malicious evildoers.1h"IBM...
View ArticleBook Review: “The Crown” by Nancy Bilyeau
“The Crown” by Nancy Bilyeau (reviewed by James Kobielus)England’s official break from Roman Catholicism in the early 16th century was a period of great convulsion. Henry VIII dismantled, confiscated,...
View ArticleAweekstweets February 10-16 2013: the week we graphed the Chelyabinsk...
4 hrsGood not to be an analyst. No PR flacks trying to influence me to say nice things about their clients. That shit got old.4 hrsI try not to stress the order of execution of work tasks. Stuff gets...
View ArticleAweekstweets February 17-23 2013: the week the sun rose seven times
53 minsSteve Jobs' hippie-oid period at ReedCollege sounds like a "Portlandia" sketch. Put some f-ing shoes on!3 hrsSeeing uptick in biz press articles that either attribute all-goodness to or blame...
View ArticleAweekstweets February 24 to March 1 2013: the week I aweekstweeted from the road
4 hrs@betsy7b No. Paradoxically, it's a glass-doored office in an IBM office suite. It says "privacy" on the door. "Privacy" compared 2 cubicles5 hrs"Can evil data scientists fool us all with world’s...
View ArticleAweekstweets March 2-10 2013: the week I decided that data is the new fish oil
3 minsRT @kexpplaylist #kexp You Don't Own Me by Klaus Nomi from Encore! JK--1983. Lesley Gore cover. Makes you say "what the hell?!" 9 hrsSounds like wonderful new paranoiac obsession: the birds...
View ArticleAweekstweets March 10-16 2013: the week I learned IBM labs are cloning the...
25m"NBC Executive and Leno Said to Have Clashed Over Jokes" (http://nyti.ms/ZHLdqs ) JK--Understandably. Leno is the Lenny Bruce of our time.18hExhausting week was 60% on road. 1 speech, 1 podcast, 1...
View ArticleAweekstweets March 16-23 2013: the week Jewel told her whole life story...
2mSo glad there are no national elections this year. Elections are seasons in which Americans use politics as excuse to indulge their nasties.52mBought & downloaded Django Django's self-titled...
View ArticleAweekstweets March 24-30 2013: the week I noticed a severe Honus deficit in...
1hHas there ever been another major league baseball player named "Honus"? And if not, why not?1hToday's Dilbert reminds me of place I once worked at where they thought we'd be inspired by wallet cards...
View ArticleAweekstweets March 30 to April 6 2013: the week I officially went over the hill
2mWas a good week. Discovered I look cooler on streaming video when I turn off overhead light & illuminate my talking head from desklamp alone6m@PresidionFinding pithy colloquial means of...
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