Jason says there are some updates rolling out to v5…wonder what they are?

Interesting…

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Yep, and I'm quite serious. The two of you are both bootstrapping social networks (admittedly on a smaller scale) without having staff, angel investors, or trendy San Francisco workspaces. There is a lesson there.

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Maybe it's just me, but when I look at what is doing with 10C, and what is doing with Pnut.io, both by themselves, I really wonder what the hell Dalton did with all that money.

As proof that I've been living in the Dark Ages, I am irrationally delighted by the fact my new (used) car has Bluetooth for phone calls and podcast listening.

We don't see those stories here, for obvious reasons. It's tricky to claim refugee status when you come from a country long regarded as the world's largest democracy1, and a First World nation, to boot.

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  1. Edit--this would actually be India, I suppose. Egad.

You people don't make it easy, quite honestly.

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You mean "Obamacare," which was a thinly-revised version of what Mitt Romney introduced when he was governor of Massachusetts. It's essentially a thin layer of government subsidy over the existing private insurance system using state healthcare exchanges, with no requirement that the insurance companies participate in it. And it is better than what went before (nothing), but still very flawed. And of course the GOP wants to kill it dead, because screw the poor and middle class.

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Someone tried to "connect" with me at a Starbucks years ago. I had to tell him thanks, but that wasn't really my thing.

Medicare in the U.S. context only applies to people 65 years of age and older.

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