Category: Ideas
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Christy and I were very lucky to receive a $100 gift certificate in the mail a couple of weeks ago thanks to the fine folks at RSVP San Diego. The gift certificate was for Romesco Baja Med Bistro in Bonita, CA. Other than Google maps giving is bad directions because…
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"Hope is not about everything turning out okay; it is about being okay no matter how things turn out." – Carol Kodish-Butt
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Chris Gondek over at the Invisible Hand Podcast had a great interview with Philip Meza the author of the book "Coming Attractions: Hollywood, High Tech, and the Future of Entertainment" that is definitely worth a listen. The one great thing in the podcast was that Chris let Philip outline some…
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A couple of related articles that I ripped out of the print version of Wired several months back are pretty interesting if you spend any time thinking about alternative housing designs for the future. The first is Andrew Blum’s look at the Glassic Soho designed by Christopher Deam. The second…
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Dann Sheridan had an interesting observation recently about a potential Google Earth advertising opportunity. It triggered my memory on a question I had a while back that was similar. My thought was based on noticing that Google 3D Warehouse City Collection has a good number of virtual buildings built by…
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I have to echo Reel Reviews Radio’s recommendation for the movie Thank You For Smoking. Based on the podcast review, I ordered it from the library on Thursday and picked it up on Friday. Christy and I watched it on Friday night. It was very enjoyable and funny.
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I’d like to announced that I am going to be joining fellow FriendsInTech.com member Douglas E. Welch, host of the excellent Career Opportunities podcast, for a Talkshoe Talkcast on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 9PM EDT/6 PM PDT. The subject of the Talkcast will be a re-cap from my recent…
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I attended an Edward Tufte conference in San Diego back on January 29, 2007, and I have uploaded my conference notes in PDF format. I have to highly recommend this conference/workshop. Great stuff!
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If you have spoken to me in person over the last two weeks or so, I probably mentioned I’m on my second Windows Vista install. My first work install was a Toshiba M4 Tablet PC that also had RC1 and then died with RC2 (long story), but is now working…
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A large number of podcasters that I listen to have been talking a lot about Twitter. When I first looked at it, I didn’t really get it. But I think a recent TWIT mentioned that it was kinda like a casual blog which peaked my interest … somewhere in-between a…
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