Once in a while, I would sit and think about why I keep associating women with food.

My mother fed me when I was young.  My wife feeds me now.  Women feed men.  When my son was a baby, he called his mother 'UmMa' and food 'MamMa'.  One connection there.

When I was a young man, whole world of restaurants and exotic food opened up to me.  Likewise, there was a whole world of women suddenly.  Discovering new food, exotic drinks and women was a weekly event then.  My mantra at the time was You are not trying hard enough if you don't get at least two No a week.  The mantra helped ease the pain of refusal.  The amazing part was where I found the mantra: in a fortune cookie.  When I cracked it open and read the paper, I said "Wow!": a hormone-loaded enlightenment.

As I aged, I learned to appreciate good food over new food and good women over new women.  Some looked good, but tasted bad.  Some look so so, but tasted good.  I started to appreciate the cost too.  I weaned off expensive food and women who demanded too much of my time.

These days, I eat at home mostly.  But occasionally, I feel like eating out.  Thankfully, my lazyness keeps those urges in check when they raise their head.  It takes a lot of energy to eat out you know.

I understand that being compared to food is degrading to most women.  If you feel offended, sorry about that.  If you like, you are welcome to compare me to food, pasta preferably.  I like pasta.

Flash Mob phenomenon is still going strong.  There was one planned in SF last Wednesday at a bar near O'Farrell Theater, but I couldn't make it.  Anyway, I am wondering what a Flash Mob of shoppers would be like.  It seems silly to go to all that trouble without getting a discount.  Maybe, stores will start giving out Flash Mob Discount for publicity and profit.  This could be a way to help out small local stores too.  Stores can host their own Flash Mob event too with Flash Mob Sale RSS feeds.  Cool!

I just read On Identity and Edits by Shelly Powers, author of Practical RDF, which talks about blog editing problems and policies.  It's a good post that examplifies how Shelly thinks.  The part that shocked me was this:

In an earlier version of the "Thanks for the E-Mails" posting, he wrote that the campaign against him was organized by "an alcoholic, a representative of BigCo and a 16 year old kid".

This excerpt from a response to Shelly's post illustrates how I felt:

"Now, I’ve heard that Dave Winer called Mark an alcoholic and Mark’s recent post about not drinking suddenly clicks into place. Oh Boy!  I’m actually quite annoyed by Dave Winer now."

Tim's The Door Is Ajar post has some right and some wrong, but I have to say the goal is a worthy one.  Unfortunately, I don't think his proposal will go anywhere even if everyone does it.  Wearing buttons don't stop wars and "Use a Better Browser" button will not make much difference.

What we need to do is build a pipeline into every Windows desktop to deliver new software and updates just like Microsoft currently can.  There will be some technical and social infrastructure that needs to be built for security and payment processing, but this proposal can void much of Microsoft's advantages in the desktop software market. 

New browser?  It's already there and ready to go with a single-click from the user.  Need to use a 3D modelling software for a week?  One click to turn it on, one click to turn it off, and an aggregated bill will arrive once a month.  Crazy?  Microsoft already has most of the pieces there to do this for Microsoft products as well as third-party products.