Lost in OK

Well, I know I haven’t kept up with this site as I should, but I’m trying to get back into the swing of things.

So, last week was spent out west in San Diego for NECC (National Educational Computing Conference). This is the Mecca for educational technology attracting around 15,000 people this year. We have been attending this conference for several years now, but usually in a very small way. To announce our new logo and platform, we decided to really make a splash at this conference. We purchased a large booth space and had a booth professionally designed. We also brought along a ton of computer equipment so that we could perform live demonstrations of our product. It took us two days to set everything up, but I think it turned out great.

Boy, it doesn’t take them long to create a video game from real life events.  Just what the world needed, the Zidane Headbutt Game.  Thanks to Leading the Next Inquisition.

Our NECC Booth

I didn’t bring my card reader out here to the conference, but here are some low rez shots of our awesome NECC booth.

Our NECC Booth

I didn’t bring my card reader out here to the conference, but here are some low rez shots of our awesome NECC booth.

Our NECC Booth

I didn’t bring my card reader out here to the conference, but here are some low rez shots of our awesome NECC booth.

I found this old video of Milton Friedman making an astounding explanation for the morality of freedom and capitalism:

It’s worth it to watch the whole thing, but just take one outstanding excerpted quote:

I think there has been one underlying and basic fallacy in this whole set of Social Security and welfare measures. And that is the fallacy, this is at the bottom of it, the fallacy that it is feasible and possible to do good with other people’s money. Now that view has two flaws: If I want to do good with other people’s money, I first have to take it away from them. That means that the welfare state philosophy of doing good with other people’s money, at it’s very bottom, is a philosophy of violence and coercion. It’s against freedom because I have to use force to get the money.

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Several people had been complaining about the lack of stuff on my MySpace page. To be honest, MySpace has kind of been a joke to me, but lately I have started to get messages from old friends that I had long lost contact with and I’ve started to see it’s value. In any case, I decided to add some info and put together a little slide show of some of my favorite pictures. I figured I shouldn’t leave my true home without the same vain posting, so here it is:

I know I haven’t posted in forever. I’ve been swamped at work and it doesn’t look like it’ll be letting up for awhile. In the mean time, here are a few galleries to look at: Photos from a short business trip to Denver. A one day massive road trip to my Mom’s hometown of Beaver Oklahoma. Candid shots from another one of Sara’s great parties.

Battered Door

I guess you could call the last few pictures “A Tour of Bricktown’s Doors”. Well, in keeping with the theme, here’s another well used warehouse door in Bricktown, OKC.

Fallen Gate

The fallen front gate on a bricktown, OKC warehouse.