The Kieffers

I imagine that this morning's NY Time's article "At Los Alamos, Blogging Their Discontent" will be one of the main topics of discussion around work this week. Doug Robert's blog has been a regular topic of conversation at the Lab for months now and after seeing the other recent NY Times article "When the Blogger Blogs, Can the Employer Intervene? " a few weeks ago, I wondered when Doug's blog would be covered exclusively.

Last Thursday, Amy and I saw Los Lobos here in Santa Fe at the Lensic Theatre. They were incredible! This was Amy's first Los Lobos concert and my second. Amy even bought me a Los Lobos t-shirt. After this concert, Los Lobos is now one of those bands that I will not miss if they play anywhere within a 50 mile radius of Santa Fe.

I signed up for Netflix a few weeks ago and we just finished watching our second batch of three movies. I have to say "hat's off" to whom ever came up with the business plan.

I believe Laura Lorson hits the nail on the head in this NPR commentary. I'm all for folks expanding their vocabularies, but not when attempting to communicate to the masses. I especially loved Lorson's formulas for describing artists, especially the simple formula that Bowie == Bowie.

Shortly after I started using my iTrip FM transmitter with my iPod I started wondering what will happen when iPod transmissions collide on the road. There are a lot of car owners who rely on these transmitters to play our tunes in the car because we don't have a jack or a cassette deck to plug in our iPod's. And of course, the number of iPod owners is growing everyday.