"you and 1,499 other people"

That's what C. said when I told her I had sent in an application to Google the other day.  I guess a friend of hers told her a few weeks ago that they had heard somewhere that Google gets 1,500 applications a day.  It feels like the slush pile all over again, but I choose to be optimistic.

I saw in this morning's WSJ that TiVo and Amazon are teaming up to bring Unbox video to TiVo boxes.  Yet another prediction from my Strategic Planning final project becomes reality.  Interesting, and sometimes unsettling, but always satisfying how that works.

And now it's time for the regular "books I've read recently" section. 

David Kamp, The United States of Arugula
A history of what people in the U.S. eat.  I found the sections on Craig Claiborne and the Chez Panisse alumni particularly interesting.

Charles Seife, Decoding The Universe
An overview of the extent to which information theory underlies our lives and the universe itself, with excursions into genetics, thermodynamics and other branches of physics.  Fascinating stuff.

Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, Hidden Kitchens

Phil Dusenberry, Then We Set His Hair On Fire