George Clinton & P-Funk - tonight at Yoshi's SF.

Almost Showtime!

The Pond.

The Pond.

Going 4-wheeling at Bo Woods' place in Tupelo

Old Courthouse and Gateway Arch

St. Louis Star Walk.

Driving along the Mississippi from Grafton to Alton, IL

Omega Psi Phi, Nu Eta Chapter 35th Anniversary - 11 Lords of
Lightening 25th Anniversary

Southern Miss Homecoming 2010 - Nu Eta 35th Anniversary - 11 Lords of
Lightening 25th Anniversary

Go Big Gold. I'm sitting in section H, row 28, seat 10

Blue Crab from the gulf

Go Big Gold!

Neelys, y'all

Neelys on Mt. Moriah

Just crossed into my home state. M-I-Crooked Letter!

Let's Go Cowboys!

Wow, looked like the Hogs would pull it off, but Mallett blew it. Now he has another shot. How about UCLA!? Go Pac-10/12!

OK Jerry Jones, fire W. Phillips, J. Garrett and trade Romo! NFL cowboys football

Whooo, Dez takes one to the hizzy. Let's Go Cowboys! football

Ok, so my teams are 1-1 this weekend. USM whipped Kansas, Cal GOT whipped by Nevada. Now it's all about the Cowboys! football

is back at Al Osby's place in Roseville after a long sad drive back from Reno. Nevada kicked Cal's butt good. Pee wee games in the am!

is excited about heading to Reno for the Cal vs. Nevada game. Go Bears! football NCAA calbears

Check out Shakey Smithson from Sat. Saw him return one against Cal in SD at Bowl game last year. http://ping.fm/FFZob

How about Arian Foster? http://ping.fm/u7VZh

Bet Philly really wishes they kept McNab. Me, too.

Holding by Alex Barron. Exciting finish... I hate the 'skins. Too many mental errors. C'mon man!

Excitement!

Let's Go Cowboys!

Whooooo! Defense holds!

Mike JENKINS!!!

COWBOYS!

Terrorist win if we're divided and scared. Remember the unity we Americans felt and demonstrated after the 9/11 attacks? Let's get that back. United We Stand! onenation 911 USA

Let's give Colorado a proper pre-welcome to the conference... A good mauling! Go Bears! football cal gobears

Awesome resolution to a very sad case. MHS friends. This is Robert "Popeye" Cole's family: $131M Ford Rollover Death Verdict | Fast Company | http://ping.fm/fzYgN

Went to Southern Miss with Brett Favre, and will always be his fan, but Who Dat?!

This Cowboys fan says, 'Who Dat!?'

Headed to Yoshi's!

Great Photo. USA TODAY |
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asporter has shared a video with you on YouTube:
Navy's Ricky Dobbs is 37th NCAA QB to pass & rush for 1k yds in a season. Who was 1st? Reggie Collier - USM 10. football usm


Reggie Collier - The Perfect 10
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Reggie Collier was the first quarterback in NCAA history to run and pass for over 1,000 yards in a single season. One of the first true dual threat quarterbacks, Collier was ahead of his time. If you haven't had the opportunity to see him play. you are in for a treat. At 6'5" tall, and true sprinter's speed, you'll enjoy watching this part one video.

*Making Social Security less generous isn't the answer | Ezra Klein,
Washington Post |
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The iWatch Is Real: It�s the New iPod Nano [PIC] | Mashable |
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Keenan Allen is the real deal. cal football gobears

First fantasy football draft is done. Now putting on my BLUE. Heading to Strawberry Canyon in a bit. GoBears cal football

Man, I'm ready for football. Got my ESPN fantasy draft this morning, and then off to Berkeley for the Cal vs. Who-C Davis Aggies. gobears

Southern Miss kicks off the college football season against South Carolina on ESPN tonight! I say it's GREAT, 2 B, a Golden Eagle! Go usm

Ready for college football!? Wear your college colors on Sept. 3: College Colors Day. http://ping.fm/nM9nE

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It was 47 years ago today, the world changed forever. I get pessimistic
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Is making plans for homecoming at Southern Miss! I'll miss the Cal vs. UCLA game, but I get to see family, frats and friends!

Flipboard for iPad is the best social media app created thus far!
http://ping.fm/TWWKY

Captain Mary M. Jackson named the first female station commander (Norfolk Naval Station) in the U.S. Navy. Fair winds and following seas!

It's a chilly 55 deg this morning in the Bay Area withna 0 heat index. I feel for family and friends in the S.E. USA! Try to stay cool.

is really digging the iPad. Now I NEED an iPhone 4

syncing up the iPad Kim won at a conference.

is on the patio enjoying the shooting stars.

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?! How 'bout dem COWBOYS! And congrats to Emmitt, Jerry & the other 2010 HOF inductees. football NFL

Bad accident on 80E in Richmond. A helicopter is hovering 4 a place to land.

is hanging out at Amy's place for Lindsey's send off to Navy bootcamp. Crawfish & shrimp: Check. Beer & cocktails: Check. goodtimes

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Reproduction of The Resolute Desk from the Clinton Oval Office

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Reproduction of The Resolute Desk from the Clinton Oval Office

William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Library, Little Rock, AR

CNBC.com Article: What's in Financial Reform Bill? Most Americans Don't Know. http://ping.fm/HN43R

is getting mentally prepared for Little Rock in July. It's HOT & humid down there. High of 67 here today.

Beautiful day at the ball park!

Oscar Grant was murdered here. No Justice, No Peace!

FBI Investigates Alleged Shooting Death, Dragging of Black Man by White Acquaintance - CBS News -From 6/3/2010 - http://ping.fm/hDdMd

Yin/Yang - My lovely wife got great row 13 seats for the A's vs. Angels game, TODAY! WORLD CUP FINAL! I'd better charge up the iPhone. MLB worldcup

Now that's a road trip! [WSJ] http://ping.fm/ShXdS worldcup

I am Oscar Grant

Wow, Germany's putting on a clinic! worldcup

With USA out, I'm pulling for Ghana now. Africa Unite! worldcup

Let's go USA! worldcup

Got the pork shoulder smoking. Having family and friends over to watch USA in today's worldcup match. Go red, white and blue!

had an awesome day with Mom, Alex and Mikhaila at Muir Woods! Just finished a great home cooked meal (I cooked). Next Fenton's Creamery for desert.

Awesome goal by Donovan in 90' +1! worldcup usa

GOOOOOOOOOOOAL! USA

Another disallowed goal?! The refs are out to get us. USA=Us worldcup

Get On Your BOOTS! Let's go USA! http://ping.fm/i0hPV worldcup USA ALG ENG

Win and We're In! USA vs. Algeria at 06:30 Pacific, Wednesday. Let's Do This! worldcup

World Cup is heating up! "Get on your boots!"

http://ping.fm/nPGq3 worldcup

BAFANA BAFANA! worldcup

iOS 4.0 update is SWEET!

The World Cup matches are more exciting on the Spanish language channels. !Tengo que aprender el idioma! worldcup

Congrats to Ghana, Africa's first ever World Cup win! worldcup

about to take Kim to airport. Prayers for Mammaw.

“One Game Changes Everything” USA-USA-USA! Beat England! We can do this! worldcup

World Cup! Coupe Du Monde! Copa Mundial! Let's rout the limey Brits of England tomorrow! USA! USA! USA!

U.S.S.Hornet flight deck.

Naps are good!

is watching the French Open. Who's the fav, Mo?

finally watched Kite Runner. Thought it was really good

is finally watching Prom Night in Mississippi.

Now - the fresh veggies. The asparagus looks awesome and you know the
white corn will be sweet!

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Anticipation!

My photo was selected for the Schmap - City Guide! http://ping.fm/pqCoI

Perspective. Today my problems seem extremely minor. R.I.P. Daryl Whitlock.

32 days to the World Cup. USA! USA! USA! worldcup football soccer

Who's NOT listening to 2Pac's "Dear Momma" today?!

Happy Mom's Day, ladies.

CNBC.com Article: Computers, Not Human Error, Likely Caused Market.  http://ping.fm/5WHUm

support the Tennessee Flood Fund @ http://ping.fm/DIOxH

jst learned fr Joint Genome Institute scientist that Caucasians/Africans have wet eat wax, while Asians/Native Americans have dry ear wax.

More Building Munching

Remember Kent State!

Funny podcast (iTunes) on Facebook user generation gap. http://ping.fm/cJAOo

Remember those folks yelling Drill-Drill-Drill last prez election? What say you now? Will we risk ruining all our coasts for oil!? oilspill

One World, One Love - May Day! Put people first!

Hearing a great lecture in our Learning in Retirement series on
Hominid Evolution. http://ping.fm/okqUs

The building continues to come down.

One building comes down, another goes up! Progress is good!

no, I don't have a shoe fetish, but I love these! Thanks, Sweetie!

My nu choos look and feel great. Thanks, Kim!

I Nearly Wept Today

Three young African-American men stopped me on a Berkeley street this evening. One said, "Hey O.G., you look like you're about something - and we don't see many Black men your age doing it right." They introduced themselves, shook my hand and said, "We respect you." I nearly wept!

I hope!

I work and live in environments where I very rarely see, and even more rarely interact with men who look like me.  That environment is a university where it is even rarer that I see African-American males students.  I sometimes wonder where we're headed.  I look around and it seems we are en route to extinction.

Who are we? I'm not talking about our wonderful African brothers who, lest we forget, often immigrated here from beautiful places, with horrible circumstances.  So there is no disrespect.  I have a dear friend from Ethiopia and every time I ask him about his family he says very few words.  Words like, very rough, or not good.  I see deep pain in his eyes and I hear it in his voice.  He is my brother.  However, I'm making reference to the slavery- and Jim Crow-enduring, lynch-surviving Brothers.  People like me, who were reared with grandparents who were fourth grade-educated Mississippi sharecroppers. Yeah, and I'm only 44 years old.  By the way, Mississippi in my case, but name your state, especially a southern one.

Those young men had a profound affect on me today.  I nearly wept today.  And…

I HOPE!

Loud Noises

Today is the 50th anniversary of SNCC " Snick"!

History is awesome! I have a new hero after learning about Edward
Alexander Bouchet.
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is digging the Opera Mini browser for iPhone!

just learned that Yale issued the first Ph.D. (Physics) to a Black man (1876). No one hired him, so he taught high school in the south.

today is full of teaching computer class and Learning in Retirement.

Demolition of a Building. Next weeks old CA Pub Hlth Bldg is coming
down in Berkeley. I'll try to capture progression

furloughs mean I get a full spring break next week. can you say RELAXATION!?

just finished hearing a great talk by Lowell Bergman! http://ping.fm/A0hRp

Berkeley City Club

Berkeley City Club

is headed to the UC RetIrees' Association luncheon at the Berkeley City Club.

be warned about a new virus threat on Facebook. Don't click on any links in messages asking for new passwords!

Éirinn go brách

is catching up on admin. tasks after teaching a great group of retirees about Social Networking this morning.

Palm Inventor/Founders on Press:Here TV - http://ping.fm/4wqLO

Que-Delta 2010

is picking up the presenter for today's Financial Planning Workshop at Oakland Airport.

is up late Watching Kurosawa films on TCM.

at Learning in Retirement program on Christianity during the Roman Empire.

Very accurate assessment of Syd'Quan Thompson - I'd take him in the first round! http://ping.fm/1ieAC

Back in the Bay Area

is filling up the rental. On the way back to Burbank Airport for the hop back to the Bay Area. Great weekend!

is getting breakfast at Ocean Park Cafe. Great place!

here's a link to the Renoir exhibit at LACMA. http://ping.fm/SBcmF

watching tsunami news while Kim gets a birthday massage. We'll hit the LA County Museum of Art for the Renoir exhibit a bit later.

On the ground @ Burbank. It's good to be in L.A. the city of my birth.

headed to LA for Gran Gran's 85th birthday celebration.

Nasty, bad chest cold's got me DOWN.

why is ice dancing an Olympic sport? Isn't it just folks who can't do the hard stiff in figure skating?

is watching Love of Liberty/Black Patriots on Public TV (KVIE). How bout those Red Tails!?

saw Wolfman last night. Thought it was OK. Spec effects weren't much better than American Warewolf in London from the 80's.

was amazed by the James Castle: A Retrospective (February 3�April 25,
2010) showing at the Berkeley Art Museum (http://ping.fm/hRCrQ
). Here's a shot of some of our program attendees being addressed by a
graduate student docent.

Norway's Curling Pants!

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is working on newsletters, websites, financial reports, etc.

Happy Mardi Gras, Ya'll!

gonna grab dinner with Al Osby for some good down-home brotherly love.

on campus shuttle to Cal Optometry (UC Eye Center) to pick up new glasses.

Boarding flt to SFO.

Don't you love when the flt crew brags abt arriving early, and then later reports there's a plane at our gate, so we have to wait on tarmac?

They've made the boarding call for ATL, but I'm a bit nervous b/c they didn't print the SFO boarding pass. They say I'll get it there.

Just heard that former Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has died. Great man! Brought that band out of poverty.

Ok - here we go again. Headed to GPT/Biloxi airport.

Checked in @ the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. Not a bad place to be stuck
with a cancelled flight.

flight cancelled due to Memphis snow. Will be on the coast for another day.

is goin' back to Cali, Cali, Cali. Nothing like the love and support of family and GOOOD friends. ...and WHO DAT!

Headline: Hell Freezes Over! Saints go marching in!

WHO DAT!? WHO DAT!? Who Dat say dey gonna beat dem SAINTS!?

Saints are 'bout to rally! WHO DAT!?

WHO DAT!? WHO DAT!? Who Dat say dey gonna beat dem SAINTS!?

Saints Fever. All the electonic billboards in the Gulf Region have
kickoff countdowns! Geaux Saints!

It's all about the Saints down south. Check out these potato chips!

All these years and this is my first flt into Gulfport.

landed in Gulfport, MS - it's raining. Next, I'll connect with Laura and John for the drive to Perdido Key.

Landed in ATL. breakfast, and then a short HOP to the Mississippi Coast.

about to RedEye from SFO to ATL. On to Gulfport in the morning.

forget those netbooks and Kindles. This baby will be - as usual from Apple - A Game Changer! http://ping.fm/b3hJM

is checking out the new google voice web app.

'meet the NEW BOSS! same as the OLD BOSS!'

*Mississippi blues voice* "you know they call it stormy Monday... ...but Tuesday's just as bad!"

just finished watching Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29. Good stuff!

Brett is still the man. Let's hear it for 40, the new 28! Geaux Saints! Who Dat!?

Who Dat!?

Wow - all these fumbles.

<~torn between long-held desires to see the sAin'ts succeed and Brett's showing what Mississippians are all about! Southern Mississippians!

is up early to take Amy to airport for her flt bk to Little Rock.

Bay Area TORNADO WARNING from NWS 4 CC County - Brentwood area. First I've heard in 18 years!

I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets. ~Lou Dobbs - Esquire Mag. February 2010

Dr. says all went wel with procedure. Kim'll be in recovery about an hour, then room. Will update again later.

just saw in the news that Tiger Woods is in sex therapy in Hattiesburg,MS. So. Miss friends - seen any paparazzi?

is at Valley Care Medical Center in Pleasanton. Kim's surgery is today. Family members should expect calls/text updates late afternoon CST.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

just saw a great 60 minutes segment on football in American Samoa.

so my Boys are out. Now I'm torn betw my fellow So. Miss alum & 40something Favre! and N'awlins. Go Brett!

just sent a text - "Haiti" to 90999 - easy way to quickly sonate $10 to Red Cross Haiti aid effort

Let's Go Cowboys!

Ok Cowboys. Tomorrow is IT. Pressure Favre, pound AP, run that rock and let's take this party to N'awlins next week!

Oh My! What a strip by the Saints D!

Nice answer to the shock by the Saints. Bush looks good and Shockey is healthy.

WHOA!?

Just say Big City Improv in SF.

If ...and Invictus - a new blog by moi. http://ping.fm/ke2E9

a few months ago I met Charles Townes (known for the laser). Today I met Walter Alvarez (Impact Theory of Mass Extinction) http://ping.fm/BZ95m

sorry about the crazy rush of messages about the response to Haiti. I combined it all in a blog post http://ping.fm/7mlXg

...Katrina was what!?

... 82nd Airborne, a Marine Exp. Unit, several Coast Guard cutters, U.S.S. Carl Vinson! I hate to bring this up, but Bush's response to...

USAF Special Forces got the airport up and running and U.S. citizens have been airlifted out! We're sending U.S.N. Hospital Ship Comfort...

Rest in Peace Teddy Pendergrass

is watching the replay of the Cowboys spankin' those eagles on NFL-HD.

gotta love staff meetings!

Just had Uncle Chung's. Al Osby was down for dinner. Watching the NCIS shows now.

Having a Buckhorn Grill tri-tip sandwich and sweet potato fries. Mmmm.

Tried 2 get here early, but still got 3rd row. This will be a rollercoaster ride. Avatar IMAX

At Metreon - http://ping.fm/ZgJIu - in SF.  Gonna see Avatar in IMAX 3D!

PLAYOFFS!?! You're talkin ABOUT PLAYOFFS?!? Yes, we are, baby! Let's Go Cowboys!!! football NFL cowboys playoffs wildcard

Classy post-game interview from McCoy! Must have been extremely painful.

Prediction (OK, maybe a dream): Alabama vs. Cal in the 2011 BCS Championship! Where're my tickets!

Mark Ingram is a hoss! Roll Tide - Roll!

The frosh QB is catching up to the speed of the game. You know Texas has no slouches at QB. Roll Tide, Roll!

is enjoying Round Table Pizza, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and the National Championship Game! goodtimes football bcs

Got home a bit late. Starting the game on DVR. Roll Tide! ROLL!

Roll Tide - ROLL!

How 'bout dem Cowboys!!!

so, it's 2010 and I'm still tryin to party like it's 1999!

just finished watching 'Twilight' from Netflix. Beautiful cinematography, but definitely a teen love story.

Thought Sherlock Holmes was just OK. Avatar (IMAX) sold out all weekend. Next week!

checking out Sherlock Holmes.

watching a very good Rose Bowl