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Thursday, May 30, 2002
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 Thursday, May 30, 2002
started 5/30/2002; 9:41:16 AM - last post 6/6/2002; 2:14:51 AM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, May 30, 2002 
5/30/2002; 1:41:16 PM (reads: 4874, responses: 1)
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Humping along 
 It was raining when we left the boat, but it cleared long enough for a trek to Mendenhall Glacier, followed by a marine wildlife boat tour. We saw a bald eagle swoop down to steal a fish from a seal, a bear grazing in a green meadow by the water's edge, and a humpback whale mom and calf rolling around and leaping out of the water. For awhile they were joined by a seal (actually a sea lion, I think). An amazing show that went on for about half an hour. In the picture you can see the mom on the left, seal in the middle and calf on the right.
Afterwards we had dinner with our friends Bill and Melanee, whom we met on the Linux Lunacy cruise last Fall. They confirmed my suspicion that there was no way a town as small, remote and unlikely as Juneau would not closely be following the basketball career of Carlos Boozer, native son.
Just arrived in Skagway this morning. Not sure what we're going to do yet. Whatever, it won't be work.
Running numbers
Here's a fun little piece I did at the Linux Journal site. Semi-unrelated: interesting results searching at ixquick.com.
Outblogreach
Banners and Us is a new blog, subtitled an open channel with greenpeace folks.
Peelings
The Onion: Look Out, Corporate America, Here Comes my Pirate Radio Station.
Bulls eye
Eric Raymond's blog, Armed and Dangerous, has quickly made the Instapundit blogroll.
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Bernie Dunham - Re: Thursday, May 30, 2002
6/6/2002; 6:14:51 AM (reads: 1143, responses: 0)
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In Skagway the metaphor for Geek Cruises is the gold rush, particularly the White Pass and Yukon Railway, one of the great engineering accomplishments in human history. Think of it in terms of a metaphor for e-commerce, with gold instead of silicon and code. This is a great example of the paradigm shift from an atomic economy to a digital economy. The White Pass Yukon Railway is the Internet of that generation: the Yukon was Silicon Valley. Everyone's grub stake was like their dot.com startup fee. You had to have 1 ton of supplies for the Canadian's to let you pass the boarder: your grub stake. Otherwise your startup venture would fail and you would starve, your domain crashed.
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