Aaron Fulkerson

@danielbru You will never regret a college degree…on the other hand…. #
Tmw is DemoFall here in SAN. That means I have a party to crash tmw. @GraemeThickins b sure to give me deets. Party is 1st night, right? #
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2zOwRD #
@chrisbrogan is your Grid-it as awesome as it looks? http://bit.ly/vS9mB #
When unisys runs "cloud" ads you know the hyperbolic term has "jumped the shark" #
@myklroventine I was briefly excited believing this involved a robot. in reply to myklroventine #
YES!! I have moved from 3 degrees to ONLY 1 degree of separation from Kevin Bacon. Hells yah! Thank you LinkedIn for helping me track this. #
@craigbox that's so meta and seemingly narcissistic. in reply to craigbox #
Creating a short list of Enterprise 2.0 Vendors (that actually have viable biz) Wow, VERY short list. Most have disappeared. Sugsted names? #
RT @olivermarks: New ZD Post: 'Social Business in Action – Establishing Excellence' http://bit.ly/3cdP5 Designing business for success #
@jaysimons Dont' worry I got yah. in reply to jaysimons #
@ITSinsider @slmader @jaysimons Have you noticed how few E2.0 startups there are now-a-days? It just struck me while creating a short list. in reply to ITSinsider #
Social Media + Business Process Management – Irreconcilable Opposites or the Killer Combo? « ProcessMaker Blog http://bit.ly/x7Guw #
Hrmm.. can I sneak in a "must include me in music video" clause into this MTV NDA and contract. We can give a 10% discount if so. 😉 #
RT @krishnan: Matt Asay @mjasay is the winner of Fake Linus Torvalds #linuxcon #
@ZUrlocker you would have much more fun doing that at MindTouch. Much much more fun. in reply to ZUrlocker #
RT @migueldeicaza: RT @monospace_conf: blogged: Advanced NHibernate Tutorial by Ayende Rahien at Monospace http://is.gd/3xq3B #
On my way to demo cocktail party. #
Demo crashed. Martinis In Belly. Briefly nodded to @parislemon for first time in person (only reason to read TC). Lotsa venture beat folks. #
@ITSinsider there was 50+ last year, now there are only 5 or so & almost all are 8 yrs old. (other than MindTouch) in reply to ITSinsider #
@ITSinsider @jaysimons what happened to all those E2.0 suite players? #
Funny video about QlickView (BI) http://bit.ly/4eX1PJ #
@ITSinsider you don't think newer e20 vendors have suite-like offerings? Whether built on wiki or forums they are suites. in reply to ITSinsider #
Actually I'm saying that most of those that did the suite route have failed. #
Interview: Marc Davis from MindTouch « Olliance Group: Business of Open Source http://bit.ly/9RdTu #
@nsurendran have you posted to http://bit.ly/pzlmq in reply to nsurendran #
That would be fantastic! RT @karlprosser: #Mindtouch #dekiscript WOOHOO. May need to build a little IDE for it though #
RT @OllianceGroup: Posted an interview with Marc Davis at @MindTouch with thoughts on the Think Tank, Europe, and more http://bit.ly/2esDhs #
RT @sdether: blogged: Composing remote and local linq queries http://tr.im/ztn0 #
@karlprosser Maybe the Mozilla web IDE can be leveraged. in reply to karlprosser #
RT @the_spinmd: MindTouch CEO @roebot says Google SideWiki is irrelevant (see comment on @johnbattelle Searchblog): http://bit.ly/dERVj #
RT @MarkDilley: Wiki confuses Google, again – http://retwt.me/e7p7 RT @tweetmeme #
I'll be speaking at the MIT Forum tonight at the Salk Institute on the campus of UCSD. 5pm reception, show begins at 6pm. #
Has it occurred to anyone else that the end of the embargo only BENEFITS techcrunch? No embargo? Consumer sware will only give to TC. #
Exactly! @alexbarnett see my comment on @johnbattelle Searchblog about SideWiki: http://bit.ly/dERVj #
New comment today on "SideWiki and Google's Community Dilemma" http://bt.io/Eak #
im craaaazy. i am tweeting from my kindle. #
RT @karlprosser: #mindtouch is the closest thing i've seen to a solid general purpose app server platform in recent years. #
@JustAimer Jump into IRC freenode.net #mindtouch in reply to JustAimer #
Wow you're all so young. RT @migueldeicaza: Ettore, Raph, Nat and myself at a Linux con around time we founded Ximian: http://bit.ly/2wSZaj #
@jonobacon more accurately: a retarded cyborg. in reply to jonobacon #
RT @ClintBoulton: RT @eWEEKNews HitWise: Microsoft Bing Soars 18% in August http://bit.ly/19RqUH #
Ugh…email… #
Interesting new MindTouch partner. Will be announced later. Building SaaS Collaborative BI on MindTouch. #
New search interface for Mozilla Thunderbird 3b4 is HUGE. Great work @davidascher . #
RT @marshallk: Confirmed: Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets, After All http://bit.ly/JtymA #
I think I'm going to miss the Critical Mass ride tonight. 2nd in a row I've missed. #
@johnmark You mean 2:08. in reply to johnmark #
#followFriday .. hrmmmm … @davidascher @davidcrow @alexbarnett @karlprosser @GraemeThickins @jdowson @dave_blogworld #
@Viddler you should consider adding "forgot username/password" to your login box or when login fails. No idea where this is… #
The WORLD premier of Collaborative Networking: How it's different http://bit.ly/7K8ZQ (@ITSinsider @dankeldsen @jaysimons @the_spinmd ) #e20 #
@ITSinsider Happy to provide demo. dm me and I'll get eml and get it scheduled. in reply to ITSinsider #
Excellent blog post at dev blog: Building dynamic apps on content tagging within MindTouch: http://bit.ly/ZAkw2 #
@dhinchcliffe Vid for you: http://bit.ly/2zi4J (at bottom) in reply to dhinchcliffe #
Breaking another record for single month revenue this month…. #
Drinking Alagash and celebrating with the MindTouch sales at Enoteca. #
Ashby and I are going to Seaworld today. Been a few months. #
Does anyone else's kindle2 crash a lot? #
Amazon should do a book review app like flixster on the iPhone. #
@defrag in a way it is, but up stack and collaborative. #
Making homemade pizza with Ashby http://flic.kr/p/72D7gk #
@khrisloux LOL me too. in reply to khrisloux #
RT @roebot Anakin’s Barber Shop | O (b LOG N) http://bit.ly/k2XJV #
@snath review this: http://bit.ly/cndiff for insight into how MindTouch is different. in reply to snath #
@bob_sutor I thought that was the loneliest # in reply to bob_sutor #
@stoweboyd merely a function of recent "conference" snafu. (I'm guessing) in reply to stoweboyd #

I have been thinking about software convergence lately. This weekend I was visiting Big Bear, CA with my family where a cultural convergence was happening. The annual Big Bear Film Festival, a motorcycle rally and Oktoberfest all happening at the same time. What does three distinct events transpiring in a very small town create? A peculiar cultural convergence of Hollywood hipsters, motorcycle club members and rural rednecks. This peculiar convergence is not a dissimilar result from many software convergences. At least this cultural convergence is fun to watch.

I had a great time with my family. Big Bear always delivers on the promised reprieve. This trip was spontaneously arranged mid-week. Tara and I spend our Thanksgivings in Big Bear and she suggested we drive to Big Bear and find a suitable cabin for our Thanksgiving trip.

For this weekend Tara found an adorable farmhouse for rent. The owner did a fantastic job decorating the place. However, the neighborhood was less than appealing. My Facebook description of the farmhouse:

We rented a cute little farmhouse. It’s nice. Other than the shitty neighborhood replete with dick rednecks partying loudly all around us…Oh and owner said it was “near” the airport. Seriously, the runway is literally in the backyard.

Thankfully the airport in Big Bear is just a little air strip for small personal airplanes. Still, with two little ones, the airplanes coming and going were not welcome. Worse yet were the raucous parties of cursing twenty-something Caucasians that drove jacked up American made trucks that appeared as though they should be participating in a monster truck rally. These twenty-somethings also dressed as though they were lead characters in rap music videos. Yet another peculiar convergence.

We did find a cabin for our Thanksgiving trip to Big Bear. Cozy Hollow Lodges is less than a mile from the village and it has a playground. We drove by and checked it out before we left town.