Comments for Andrew Ottoson

Comment on The Wednesday Wrap by andrewo

andrewo — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:49:05 +0000

Settling in……a bit, yes.

Comment on The Wednesday Wrap by Curlsofred

Curlsofred — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:53:31 +0000

My eyebrows are raised in interest about the wolf thing…definitely a different part of the country. Feel like your’re settling in at all?

Comment on Welcomed to Grangeville by curlsofred

curlsofred — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:54:05 +0000

Congrats…glad there is some excitement for an upcoming adventure. Look forward to hearing more and hope the transition is fairly smooth.

Comment on Because I haven’t posted on the Keystone Pipeline in forever by andrewo

andrewo — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:51:40 +0000

It is a nice, straight line...but another set of easements, too. I guess other people's property just doesn't cost that much when you're on the right side of the eminent domain lawsuits.

Comment on Because I haven’t posted on the Keystone Pipeline in forever by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:01:05 +0000

Well, they always say the shortest route between two distances is a straight line. Keystone also has the advantage of Republican dominated state legislatures along the entire length of the proposed routes.

Comment on Under what circumstances could Keystone XL “eliminate” oil imports from the Middle East? by Ensys Energy

Ensys Energy — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:29:28 +0000

Please read our response to the Reuters article: http://www.ensysenergy.com/news.php

Comment on Under what circumstances could Keystone XL “eliminate” oil imports from the Middle East? by Elinor

Elinor — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:25:32 +0000

so, am I reading this correctly that the current drop in consumption of 2 million barrels/day actually exceeds what’s imported from the Persian Gulf on a daily basis?

Comment on On the nature of internet trolls by andrewo

andrewo — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:18:16 +0000

Now, would it be worth the risking the genesis of a few super-trolls for the sake of a weekly Profiles In Cowardice column dedicated to profiling the biggest jerks commenting anonymously on news sites? I’d like to say no, but I’d probably read such a column on a regular basis…

Comment on Google Wave postmortem by pennedav

pennedav — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:00:16 +0000

Whatever language you use the point is if you give non-technical users an incomplete idea (tool, service, app, platform, OS, et al) your adoption rate is going to suck. It’s like a car with only the chassis, engine, and suspension (the platform); no one’s going to buy it let alone use it even if it is free unless they’re an auto-mechanic perhaps.

Comment on Google Wave postmortem by andrewo

andrewo — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:27:05 +0000

I agree because I think we’re making essentially the same distinction about the role of specialized knowledge, but still prefer the tool/service language for two reasons:

1) I’m not a software developer, so I’m having trouble imagining what a platform is or does apart from its applications. Even Windows comes with a calculator, but even the calculator is an application rather than a glimpse of the platform itself, eh?
2) The tool/service language lends some dignity to the act of using bare bones waves to manage various text-only projects (like #3 & #4 above); dignifying that kind of correspondance helps set up an important comparison between waves, emails and letters as three iterations of the same process. But given the sub-critical number of adopters it is obvious that the pros and cons of this iteration of mail alone won’t be enough to power the near-universal adoption synonymous with Google’s name. (Is universal adoption a reasonable goal for every Google product?)