I grew up in Norway and quite literally skied to school as a small child. So it figures that I just LOVE the winter Olympics. Give me the 50k cross country ski race, 10,000 meter speed skating, or yes even ski-jumping ahead of the World Series playoffs or a Superbowl game any day. Where you may just see two guys with big thighs and body-speedos skating around and around in an ice rink, I see riveting split second excitement that brings back fond memories from my childhood.
It has always been interesting to me how much social and cultural backgrounds ends up coloring our perspectives and shaping our interests. One of the things I really look forward to with Plum is to discover the things that other people are passionate about. We are cranking to get ready for ETech in San Diego in just over a week, so I did not have much time to follow the Olympics this year, but I did use Plum to collect a few articles, pictures and some snippets that I though memorable. Nothing like checking out the latest on the biathlon as a part of debugging.
You may or may not share my fondness for the icy games coming to a head today, but you naturally have your own set of interests and passions. I hope that Plum becomes a place where you can collect, share and connect some of those interests and perhaps discover some delightful, crazy, fun and useful stuff that others are collecting in the process.
-hans peter
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