Archive - May 21, 2007
Harold’s Risky Crayon
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 20:19A week and a half ago, I was tagged by Rod with a Thinking Blogger Award. Part of the game is to go out and tag five other bloggers that make you think. Instead of rattling off five blogs when I got the award, I thought I would spend some time, try to find the right recipients, and then put up my post.
This evening, I stumbled across a blog post that made me sit back and think, so I’ll use of the first of my five nominations for Oh, The Joys. In Overthinking Harold's Purple Nightmare she thinks about Harold’s Purple Crayon in a manner radically different from my own thoughts. On top of that, when I stopped by she was breaking 50 comments on the post, most of them echoing her thoughts.
I wondered if it is a chromosome thing. She spoke about this in a previous blog post where her husband amuses her son by bouncing underwear off of a ceiling fan
K threw, the teeny tiny underwear, they caught on the ceiling fan blade, they spun around...
...and they flew down and SMACKED The Mayor right in the head.
K's manly victory dance ensued.
The Mayor laughed.
I shook my head and thought, "that is one odd chromosome."
On further investigation, however, I wonder if it is a Mason Dixon line sort of thing, or something about risk taking. You see, Kim loved the Harold stories as a child, and reads them to Fiona, who also loves them. Kim, Fiona and I are what I believe is called in the south, damnyahnkees.
The Innovation Invitation
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 09:18I have always been fascinated by innovation. It is what America was built on, has helped keep America strong, and I believe is where our strength in the future lies. I’ve always been an early adopter of technology and seek to add my own innovations.
For me, and I believe for many others, that was one of the things that made the 2004 Presidential cycle so exciting. There were great innovations in the use of the Internet. What was most important about those innovations is that everyone was invited to help innovate.
At the 2006 Personal Democracy Forum, one of the great, unanswered questions was, what will be the breakthrough technological innovation of the 2008 Presidential cycle. No one had a compelling answer. At the Media in Transition conference as well as at Personal Democracy Forum this year, I found myself talking with many people about the 2008 Presidential cycle. There was a sense of disappointment that isn’t any great innovation going on.
