Tom Nichols , and actually there's a quote in this book that's just-- I think it just sums it up.
Jesse Nichols : Thanks for everyone for coming to today's AuthorsGoogle talk.
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Jesse Nichols : Nice.
Jesse Nichols : Welcome, welcome.
Jesse Nichols : Those are the better chairs.
Jesse Nichols : those are the better chairs.
Jesse Nichols : But, yeah.
Jesse Nichols : San Francisco.
Jesse Nichols : The valley.
Jesse Nichols : Very nice.
Jesse Nichols : They have a private box office.
Jesse Nichols : Well thanks again for coming.
Jesse Nichols : You made an interesting point, though, that it's not--.
Jesse Nichols : Do you find yourself bringing up these kinds of subjects?
Jesse Nichols : The Thoreau quote, "The unexamined life," that definitely came to mind when I was looking at this.
Jesse Nichols : it's really difficult.
Jesse Nichols : I really like the idea of engaging your visitors.
Jesse Nichols : And when you start that conversation the harder way, which is create art, do poetry, paint a picture or something like that--
Jesse Nichols : Haiku's are particularly nice-- Rainn Wilson: Yeah.
Jesse Nichols : because they're short, fairly non-committal.
Jesse Nichols : Well, yeah.
Jesse Nichols : You take that into what is real happiness and all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're quoting more and--.
Jesse Nichols : It's great people.
Jesse Nichols : Well I find it very genuine, too.
Jesse Nichols : with something like-- Rainn Wilson: I find you very genuine.
Jesse Nichols : Oh, well.
Jesse Nichols : When I signed up for an account, it was fairly non-invasive.
Jesse Nichols : You follow their Twitter feed, is what you're saying.
Jesse Nichols : Well, I mean do you monitor the demographics, the profiles, the types of people, where they're coming from?
Jesse Nichols : Well, there's not any advertising on the site now, is there?
Jesse Nichols : So, would you ever consider this a profit, a profitable venture?
Jesse Nichols : That's fair.
Jesse Nichols : It's a bit magical.
Jesse Nichols : They're definitely talking about you.
Jesse Nichols : Well, you know, it's a packed house.
Jesse Nichols : They're good people.
Jesse Nichols : They're good people.
Jesse Nichols : You can trust them.
Jesse Nichols : Well, I don't know about that.
Jesse Nichols : Nothing against Miss McLachlan, I'm sure.
Jesse Nichols : Great.
Jesse Nichols : Ooh.
Jesse Nichols : I think of a label.
Jesse Nichols : Something that--.
Jesse Nichols : Well we're gonna start taking questions since we've got about 20, 25 minutes left.
Jesse Nichols : With the microphone though.
Jesse Nichols : I'll ask after the talk.
Jesse Nichols : Oh, man.