OK, I agree, he’s not really a robot. Â Well, probably not. Â But anyway, after watching this video, don’t you agree that it just might be possible?
Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Apparently this is a mash-up of a bunch of pictures from a single event.
Hattip to Whatever.
I’ve been lazily watching the Boston Globe’s pursuit of Menino aide Michael J. Kineavy’s emails.  It was obvious from the start that the guy was violating state law – he was deleting emails that the law required be retained.  But it looked like more smoke than fire.  Yeah, he should be keeping the emails, I thought, but there’s a long distance between deleting some emails and a cover-up.  The easiest explanation was that he was anal-retentive, not that he was a felon.  I’m a firm believer that one should  “never blame on malice what can be explained by incompetence.”  Even while the Globe was mentioning Kineavy’s relationship with accused felons Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Turner, I thought they were just fishing for a good story line.
Today, the Globe got a pile of emails from the mayor’s office. Â Kineavy had deleted emails, but the people he corresponded with hadn’t, and thus the emails came to light. Â The Globe published a sample, and there’s a game-changer in that sample. Â Kineavy sends an email saying “reminder. . .these are foiable.” Â Foiable? Â What’s foiable? Â Foible? Â Friable? Â No – it’s FOIable. Â As in “Freedom of Information Act”-able. Â Suddenly Kineavy isn’t a naive, idiosyncratic geek. Â Now, he’s someone with knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act who takes actions every day that violate state law about record retention. Â This is no longer a “honest mistake” that Menino can just shrug off – it’s a deliberate attempt to hide the internal workings of government from the public. Â This is no longer just smoke. Â There’s fire.
There are three interesting question areas that I can think of:
For the last four months I’ve been fostering a very nice dog named Bailey. Â Bailey’s owner died suddenly this spring; a work colleague was looking for a home for Bailey and I volunteered on a temporary basis. Â If she ends up at a home close to Arlington, she comes with free dog sitting services. Â I like her and will enjoy having her visit while you go away for the weekend or on vacation or even just overnight. Â I just can’t commit to taking care of her full time.
Bailey is 10 years old. Â She’s mostly German Shepherd, but there’s something else there too. Â She’s very friendly with people and children. Â She’s not great with other dogs; she thinks that she’s the alpha dog. Â She does fine with other submissive dogs. Â She’s not good with cats, either – she thinks they are fun to chase.
As an older dog she’s content to sleep for much of the day. Â I let her out in the morning and feed her. Â A dog walker takes her for a stroll midday. Â I come home in the evening and either walk her or let her out, and feed her again. Â On weekends she goes on daytrips with me, or just stays at home while I’m getting work done.
She has excellent house training and has never once had an accident in my house. She can easily go 8 hours without needing to go outside. Â She has no health problems and is an active companion. Â She travels well in cars.
If you’re interested in meeting Bailey, please let me know. Â If you’re interested in taking her for a few days to see if you get along, that is possible. Â And, as I said before, if you take her full-time I’m very happy to be a regular dog sitter.
