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Remember When?

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Fred posts on Bubble 2.0. Yes, indeedy, it’s difficult not to get caught up in the excitement of the party. I’m not really in a position to invest, personally, right now — except maybe in East Bay real estate (which is scary in its own way) — but can just imagine the plight of VCs these days.

Fred says:

You went to a great party, had too good of a time, woke up with a terrible hangover, and promised yourself you wouldn’t do that again.

Then the people who threw the party invite you to the next one.

What do you do? Go, of course.

I wonder if that’s what’s happening with all the activity in and around Web 2.0 right now…

[much very good stuff snipped out here so go check out the post yourself]

If you were at the first party, then you should never forget how it felt when it was over.

Drink responsibly this time.

For me it’s really fascinating to be on the Left Coast this time around, after having experienced the wild dot-com craze in NYC circa 1999.

RIP Mr. Thompson

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Hunter

Spent the wet long weekend in Yosemite, so just heard late last night about the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson. He was one of my journalistic heroes — because he told it like it was and because he told it so well. An amazingly adept writer, his stylistic flourishes and lengthy sentences often had me in awe. I loved especially Proud Highway, Volume 1 — an epistolary work covering the writer’s youthful exploits, from growing up in Louisville, KY to serving in the U.S. Air Force to writing Hell’s Angels. It’s fascinating to see how much raw personality was evident so early, and to see him develop the writing style to express those intense energies. Farewell, Hunter S. Thompson.

  • Tom Watson on Thompson.
  • Chervokas on Thompson.

    • Happy Valentines Day!

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    Science Blog has a great post on the mysterious chemistry of love. The scientists took a look at interactions at a HurryDate get-together, in which participants had 3 minutes to evaluate each potential dating partner.

    “Although they had three minutes, most participants made their decision based on the information that they probably got in the first three seconds,” said Robert Kurzban, an assistant professor in Penn Department of Psychology. “Somewhat surprisingly, factors that you might think would be really important to people, like religion, education and income, played very little role in their choices.”

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