Jason-
Sorry if I was abrupt on the phone, if you called while things were happening and I was rude.
I think there is a shift, fairly abrupt, from office etiquette , where people have receptionists answering the phone and following a protocol, to now, with cellphones and virtual offices — I cannot afford an office here any more — so there is some weird shakeout.

Which is distinct from if I knew exactly who you were, your firm, or org, and their service, and then decided not to work with you.

Any further advice on getting over my self? is that like Jerry Salinger going vedantic between “Catcher in the Rye” and “Great day for Bananafish” (Seriously; I am going to a lecture tomorrow by the leading analyst of Salinger, David Shields).

And you think a guy who went from 800 votes in 2009 to nearly 6,000 in 2012 (out of 24,000 cast) is now cocky?

I am thinking I am Walter Mischel “Marshmellow” — actually, excuse the digression, but that is my next “get” — is Mischel of “marshmallow” fame the Mischel from Stanford, i.e. I know him or them or the family? What I am saying: I think I am pretty darn patient.

Is your job that unsatysfing that you need to take the jab at people now and again?

Namaste, bra.

Mark Weiss
Plastic Alto blog
Earthwise Productions
running for council in Palo Alto or as I sometimes say, peddling just fast enough to not fall down
I also think about “Chris Ryan” real or fictional in the De La Salle movie taking a knee on the last three plays of the season: In certain ways I could no literally nothing in the run up to Nov. 4 and still feel I got something down so far and any more would be overkill.

but just for yucks, what do you suggest? What is the full-Cal Voter buy?

650.305 XXXx now that you’ve got my attention