| Is government really Aspen’s biggest developer? Could be ...
Ask just about anyone, resident or visitor, working stiff or ski-bum trust-funder, and the answer often will be that builders have turned the area into one huge construction site, and that government is one of the biggest culprits.
Whether the latter observation is true is a matter for conjecture and debate.
What is demonstrably true, however, is that governments in Aspen, Pitkin County and Snowmass Village have been on a building binge that will continue, some of it in phases and some depending on public approvals, into the foreseeable future.
The full scope of this spree is not always clear. There are stories in the local media about the various projects on the drawing boards or already in the ground, but a panoramic accounting of the plans is rare.
Hitch 'em up, move 'em out: Trail ride signals return of the rodeo
On Friday, the streets around Houston's Memorial Park resembled something out of a John Wayne movie as 13 trail rides with some 4,000 riders converged on the city for Go Texan Day and the precursor to the start of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. As is tradition, all of the trail rides converge on Memorial Park before the rodeo parade, which starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday. It's an annual celebration of all things Texas that had its beginnings 56 years ago. .
Q&A with Alex Pentland
THREE YEARS AGO, Alex "Sandy" Pentland huddled in front of a computer, predicting the future. On his monitor, he could follow the behavior of 100 students and faculty members as they traveled around the MIT campus; he could also see projections of what each person would do next. Over several months, as each of the subjects scurried from class to dorm to coffee shop, their cellphones beamed back moment-by-moment updates to Pentland's lab. After he had crunched the numbers, he came up with a kind of fingerprint of each person's weekly routine. Pentland and his colleagues could pick out any one student and guess - often with an 80 to 90 percent accuracy rate - whether that person was about to head to the gym, go home, or meet her boyfriend for dinner. And when the researchers looked at all the routines together, they could make inferences about the behavior of groups.
RealNetworks Buys Casual Gamer Trymedia
In a move to bolster its casual-gaming portfolio, RealNetworks has bought Macrovision's Trymedia unit. The deal, announced in a news release Friday, marked the latest in Macrovision's moves to shed its non-core assets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In trading late Friday morning, shares of RealNetworks edged up $0.04, or 0.7 percent, to $5.91. Shares of Macrovision, which announced fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, climbed $0.45, or 2.8 percent, to $16.81. .
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