Monthly Archives: November 2006

Corporate Kulcha

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 26, 2006

Tara Hunt points out: Microsoft does enterprise amazingly well. They just fit into corporate culture somehow. Meanwhile, on planet earth, David Weinberger brings this message from Andy Ihnatko: Zune sucks because it was designed to meet the music industry’s needs, not the users’. The pieces of the puzzle are all on the table, and people [...]

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Jack Stack

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 25, 2006

Great ‘que. Thanks guys

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A tale of two puppies…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 25, 2006

Lucy is a seven year old Chihuahua with refined climbing and scrambling abilities. She’s agile and quick. Maggie is a miniature dachshund of indeterminate age possessing all the coordination and grace for which the breed is famous. Maggie runs at the couch, takes a mighty leap and gains purchase on the seat cushion with her [...]

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A nice place to visit…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 24, 2006

Breakfast on the Plaza, followed by a nice relaxing time in the room reading, lunch at a pizza place by UMKC, a few hours in the afternoon at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art – much Chihuly, a few nice Georgia O’Keefes, Jasper Johns’ “The Seasons,” Lisa Sanditz: “Flyover,” a little Steiglitz photo of O’Keefe, [...]

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Gratitude

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 23, 2006

This branch of the Paynter family managed to gather today in Kansas City, and bask in the radiant warmth of each other’s company. I’m grateful for that. I’m only sorry that the meal didn’t measure up to the occasion. This is, I think, the first Thanksgiving that I’ve eaten at a restaurant rather than in [...]

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Over the River and Through the Woods

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Bucolic observation regarding all those construction paper cut-outs and hand drawn turkeys… the Tom turkey doesn’t display his fan of feathers like that in the autumn. In the spring, well, he has much to be thankful for in the spring.

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Schachspiele

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 22, 2006

Liz Ditz points today at a parody titled “Good Christians Don’t Play Chess.” (I know it’s a parody, Liz, because the author is satirizing a similar but serious piece on why Christians shouldn’t play Dungeons and Dragons.) Here is a rant about the queen, ironically framed in the xtian context of female submission. Saint Paul [...]

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Quiet memories of the 1963 coup d’état

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 22, 2006

Today marked the 43rd anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination, the day of the shadow government’s coup d’état that brought Lyndon Johnson to power. It was a day of remembrance, touched by the BBC reportage of CIA involvement in the covert action four and a half years later when Kennedy’s brother Robert was felled. [...]

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