Joho the Blog » personal http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 <no_sarcasm>Lucky me</no_sarcasm> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/05/15/ltno_sarcasmgtlucky-meltno_sarcasmgt/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/05/15/ltno_sarcasmgtlucky-meltno_sarcasmgt/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 13:38:43 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=12843 I had a lovely time at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information yesterday afternoon. About twenty of us talked for two hours about library innovation. It reminded me: how much I like hanging out with librarians; how eager people are to invent, collaborate, and play; how lucky I am to work in an open space for innovation (the Harvard Library Innovation Lab) with such a talented, creative group; how much I love Toronto.

]]> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/05/15/ltno_sarcasmgtlucky-meltno_sarcasmgt/feed/ 1 A happy day http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/09/23/a-happy-day/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/09/23/a-happy-day/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:47:15 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=12267 I don’t often blog about purely personal events, but our daughter Leah is getting married this morning to her friend Matt.

Yay!!!

 

The next day: It was a wonderful wedding, joining two wonderful, loving people. We’re all very, very happy.

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This evening I’ve learned he has esophageal cancer. I cannot do better at expressing how I feel about Michael and about this news than my friend Doc has.

Michael is a devoted father of four, so some friends have started a fund for him . Please consider giving.

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Get well soon, you Friend of Everyone and Friend of the Net.

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]]> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/16/get-well-soon-doc/feed/ 1 The Two-Thirds Life Crisis http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/04/14/the-two-thirds-life-crisis/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/04/14/the-two-thirds-life-crisis/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:17:50 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=6745 I am coming to grips with the sticker shock of hitting my 40th birthday. Unfortunately, I’m 57.

This inconvenient truth is born home by Doc Searls‘ recent “incident.” [More from Doc here, here, here, and here.) I am one of the absurd number of people who count Doc as a close friend. I happened to be in the conference room when the pain in his chest got too strong to ignore. He called the Harvard health folks who said it might be a good time to stagger on over. So, I walked him there. It's the least the second oldest person in the room could do. Not to mention, that way I found out as soon as possible what was going on with him, which turned out to be a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot that had traveled to his lungs), which was treated quickly and well.

Boston is a good city to get sick in.

Doc's doing well, thank heavens. He blogged a couple of days after the incident that he's resolved to start taking better care of himself. Good. We want Doc around for many decades, purely for selfish reasons.

Doc is in the midst of what I guess we should called a Two-Thirds Life Crisis because it comes some time after the Midlife Crisis. I've been through my own, having eaten my way into Type 2 diabetes a couple of years ago. I resolved to start taking better care of myself, and, fortunately, you can no longer use my blood to top off your pancakes in the morning. I'm actually in better shape than before. (Irony alert: I'll probably drop dead this afternoon, just to give y'all something to blog about.)

Anyway, here, is a handy comparison chart:

 

The Male Midlife Crisis

The Male Two-Thirds Life Crisis

Occurs in your 40's

Occurs in your late 50's or early 60's

Brought on by hearing your songs played on the oldies station

Brought on by hearing your cardiologist going "tut tut," and then realizing that your cardiologist is 15 years younger than you.

Can't believe you're not twenty years younger

Can't believe you've only got twenty years left

Purchase sports car in desperate attempt to appear young

After catching yourself in a mirror, you give away your baseball cap and shorts because you realize you're too old for camp

Work on abs

Work on cholesterol

Ready to prove to the ladies that you're still in your sexual prime

Continue lifelong redefinition of "sexual prime."

Learn (= pretend) to like hip hop

Learn your parents were right about Duke Ellington

50 seems really old.

50 seems really old.

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