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Member since May 26, 2009
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Re: “The Mad Minute”
Joe, you read this gun owner/shooting enthusiast's mind, and posted it here. The comments have so far been the predictable set of occasional thoughtfulness nearly obliterated by knee-jerk talking points. I salute your equanimity.
Re: “TED’s Idea-Spreading Comes to Richmond”
Glad to see that TEDx is coming to RVA and that it's finally being TALKED about. I found out late last year about the plans, and submitted a speaker app before Christmas. Was waiting with 'bated breath for them to actually go public with the news - looking forward to attending the open mic!
Re: “Rise of the Machines”
When I moved to Richmond twelve years ago, I started hearing one sentence repeated over and over again in business-development and technology circles: "But no one makes anything in Richmond." I heard it used consistently as an apologia at the tag end of conversations on venture capital, or engineering education, or economic development. And I always heard it delivered with a verbal shrug, something along the lines of, "Well, after all, it's Richmond, right?"
So now, as the Biotech Park spawns Health Diagnostic Laboratories (which is, last I checked, NOT a subsidiary of Altria), one of the fastest-growing biotech firms in the US, we're gonna get our RVA snark on about the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM)? I understand the need to fully report a story. I slaved in the journo trenches myself for over two decades. However, reading this story leaves me with a lingering sense that the reporter had no plan to find CCAM anything other than an example of more-shiny-objects-paid-for-with-public-money syndrome.
Call 'em crazy, but there really are people in Rivah City who have dreams of building things here. Actual things, as opposed to ads about things. CCAM's presence here doesn't just mean that Virginia colleges and universities will have the chance to use its facilities. MIT, CalTech, and UPenn can play, too. I could be wrong, but how about we give CCAM ten years, and see what rises from it, rather than exercise our disappointment muscle in advance.
A willingness to be disappointed is so often rewarded, isn't it?
Re: “Red Meat”
Holy merde! "progressivistas are a welcome respite for suburban men who have been limited to commitment-obsessing, household-chemical-abusing, Bush-raised bush" - OUTSTANDING. And *very* funny.
Re: “Punch Drunk”
This is one for the ages, dude - 'shine and a call-back to the dirty underside of the Belle Epoque? Boo-yah, Writer-Man. When will YOU write a f***ing book ... ?
Re: “Food Review: 525 at the Berry Burk”
Have only been there once, for lunch, but I was impressed by the food, the service, and the setting. Given the place's history as a palace of millinery, the light fixtures are *perfect*.
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Re: “Punch Drunk”
Sounds quite like my 30-arrival-anticipation [redacted # of] decades ago. Short of FB, that is. FB was, in those long-ago days, only available in the form of hanging in watering holes with friends. Or hours-long phone calls, often kicked off by drink-n-dial impulses. It's all in the multi-tasking, then and now. I'll lift a glass of Hendrick's in your general direction to salute your ability to manage an hour in epic fashion ...