j.j. toothman

Author: J.J. Toothman

  • What I’m working on at NASA – Fall 2010 Edition

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    A couple happenings are inspiring the post you are about to read.  First, a couple recent posts I published have questioned NASA’s ability to be transparent. ((Time for me to practice what I preach.))  Second, I recently gave a presentation at the Social Media for Government Conference that shared a case study of a project…

  • Six years ago today…

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    Keturah and I were married on this day in 2004.  It was the beginning of so much.  Including an all night party that ended the next morning with cocktails at The End Up (with me still wearing the suit in the picture below). Happy anniversary to Keturah.  Thanks for making all of my dreams comes…

  • Footnotes in blog posts

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    You may have noticed that I’ve started including footnotes in my blog posts. ((See? here’s a footnote now!)) Know this: there’s a really good chance I’m going to grossly overuse these. I haven’t done this in the past. Why start now?  Well, in whatever writing I’ve done ((And to be clear: I am NOT a…

  • Dick’s Picks

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    I’ve decided that I’m going to listen to all 36 volumes of The Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks series.  But in the order of show date.  Starting with Volume 26 (a pair of Tahoe shoes in 1968) and ending in Volume 27 (Oakland, 1992).   In case you’re interested in the show order of all 36…

  • Daring to be great at NASA

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    For almost a year, my LinkedIn profile has been headlined with the phrase “Looking for a dare to be great situation.”  And while that was partially me drawing more career inspiration from the wisdom of Lloyd Dobler, who doesn’t want greatness as part of their job? Now, you can interpret greatness in a variety of…

  • OK blog, I’ve got some things to say

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    Hello blog.  Happy to see you’re still here. No, I haven’t forgotten about you.  Though if you thought that I had abandoned you for something like my posterous account, I could see that would be running through your database tables and php scripts.  Don’t worry.  I’m only using that for that for quick publishing photos…

  • Mason on harmonica

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  • Problem solving

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  • The best album of 2009

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    I’ve told enough people about this and repeated myself so many times that it made sense to write a post about the recently released album by The Black Crowes.  Simply put – best new album of 2009. If you have yet to hear it, head over to Amoeba Records or click open Amazon or iTunes…

  • Revisiting the Beatles Albums: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

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    If you read my post about Revolver, you already know that I believe that, despite what many a Rock critic believes, Revolver is the best Beatles album of all time.  In fact, if you stay tuned as I write about the rest of the Beatles catalogue, you’ll find out that I think Sgt Pepper’s Lonely…