more of Other People's Blogs

Recently, my OPB activity has primarily been among people I either know personally offline or people I know with a certain familiarity online.

• My friend and former regular movie-viewing partner, CJ, who claims he can get his hands on The Berlin Batman for me (!) spends all his time directing plays. (Maybe he's still writing them, too. I'm not sure. I haven't kept up on the latest.) Anyway, he apparently found time to watch the commentary on the DVD of X-2, which led me to review my own favorite DVD commentaries.
  

• Doctor Furious asked if marketing is necessary in a free market and I answered -- risking, as I saw it, the embarrassment of learning that I had yet again missed the point. Turned out I didn't. This time.

• On blog.Mises.org (which by the way, my friend AC is now involved in hosting!) Stephan Kinsella takes exception to my "But"...
  

• And that same friend and former business partner, AC Capehart, a good man and a good geek who has helped carry me through tough times with encouragement and support when such things were otherwise few and far between, now has his own blog.

  Ten years ago, AC and I learned that we were interviewing for the same job -- peon webmaster at a game company -- in our parallel attempts to escape the basement computing at the University of Virginia. I think neither of us wanted to be "that guy" who'd have a good reason to have trouble sleeping after things shook out. The manager hired both of us. He said he'd never experienced such a thing: AC spent much of his interview talking about how talented I was, and I'd spent my interview talking about AC's talents. Guy figured we must be a fantastic team so he sacrificed a graphic artist from his head count and hired the both of us. (It was also weird for him, as it is for so many, that we each go by initials rather than proper names.)
  

  Anyway, a few weeks ago, Mr. Capehart started a blog, and I was caught off-guard by what a good read it is. AC is talented in many ways, but I'd never considered him a particularly compelling writer. Apparently, that's because I'd only seen his textual equivalent of corporate-speak. In his own voice, he's something else. See, for instance, his analysis of the game like virtues in the latest @Home distributed computing project. Or his lessons learned and not-yet-learned about how we can and should treat other drivers. (I have yet to add my 2¢ on the perils of principled driving.)

OPB ... did I leave anyone out?