If you know me, you already know I’m a huge Amazon.com fan. I love the service, but here are four reasons other than it being the best online store evAR.

Reason number one. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder:

Jeff is awesome. Cheerful, smart, down-to-earth, funny. He is just an awesome guy.

Reason number two. I love my Kindle. It’s magical. Thanks again for the awesome birthday present Steve.

Reason number three.

Right, that is Werner Vogel, the CTO of Amazon, fielding support on Twitter. By the way, Werner is another guy who is a brilliant person and also very cheerful and friendly.

Reason number four. Finally, I love Amazon.com because a few of their lovely and wise executives have referred business to MindTouch. Including some big customers like The Washington Post.

Thanks for being kick ass Amazon.com.

You mean it’s not?

I stole an ass hat during the MindTouch white elephant party. It’s pretty awesome.

This is one of the many non-intuitive features of Facebook. If you want to link or unlink a Facebook page to a Twitter account do this:

1. Go here: http://www.facebook.com/twitter/
2. Click on the  “Link to Twitter” or "Unlink from Twitter."

How one discovers that short of scouring The Google, I don’t know.

I caught this on both MarshallK and PodcastHotel’s posterous. You whacky Portlandians. Anyway, I found it amusing and oddly resonant.

What? As Bukowski wrote: “…symbolizes everything that disgusts me: unoriginal, macho energy, obviousness…”. Or if you prefer, what she says.

Well, at least the first ad was smart.

Tara, Ashby, Roesevelt and I spent a long Thanksgiving weekend in Big Bear. We were surprised Saturday morning with several inches of snow and then more again on Sunday. Total accumulation was over a foot.

We stayed at the Cozy Hollow Lodge. I recommend it. Very clean. Also, they have a pleasant playground for the kids.

My Thanksgiving tweets in anti-chronological order:

Lol And canadians @jevon @davidcrow @jaygoldman @maggiefox @kangamono. Canadians r cool. #thanksgiving 5:51 PM Nov 26th  in reply to jevon

Oops meant to add #thanksgiving to last tweet. 5:46 PM Nov 26th

All the MindTouchers for being brilliant and hard working. Especially @honging and @wheatstraw for sticking with it thru early lean years. 5:45 PM Nov 26th

Lastly, my awesome biz partner @bjorg. #thanksgiving 5:24 PM Nov 26th

Roesevelt, my sturdy and reliable son. #thanksgiving 3:58 PM Nov 26th

My dynamic daughter. My favorite travel companion. #thanksgiving http://twitpic.com/r2vff 3:00 PM Nov 26th

My wife. An amazing mother, partner and great benefits too. Oh she’s hot too. #thanksgiving http://twitpic.com/r2v41 2:58 PM Nov 26th

I keep getting invited to Google Wave even though I’ve had an account for months. It seems others are inviting me with different email addresses than the one I have registered with Wave. I can’t add my other emails though and Wave is disconnected even from my Google profile. 😦 Lame.

I have been asked many times for my thoughts on Google Wave. Here are just a couple:

• IRC moved up stack. Google Wave is essentially no different from what we’ve been doing with IRC and TKL bots for a very very long time. This doesn’t diminish it. To the contrary.
• Google Wave is crappy email. Because there is hardly anyone using it.
• Google Wave is crappy instant messaging. See the last point. Also, it doesn’t notify users of a message other than through the web interface, which I rarely log into.

As Jevon wrote to me, in a Wave, “if [Google Wave] had email notifications it would be more useful”. Oh the irony.

Don’t get me wrong. Google Wave is interesting. Primarily because of the underlying protocol and architecture. I am certain that if Google throws enough money at Wave, and I suspect they will, they will develop it into an important and useful technology.

Ping me with your email address if you want a Google Wave invite. If you’re already on Wave feel free to add me. I am AaronRoe At GoogleWave Dot com

Each year the Komen San Diego Race for the Cure^® attracts more than 14,000 participants locally and over 1.5 million people participate in a Race for the Cure^® event worldwide. This family friendly 5K run/walk starts in beautiful Balboa Park.