‘lectric skates, eh?

Move over midlife-crisis-waste-of-money-red-convertible, here comes….  THERMABLADE.   Be like Wild E. Coyote on the ice with these heated ice skating blades.   Skates with heated blades, you say?  Yes, HEATED SKATE BLADES.  The small battery in the skate sends a slight electrical charge down through the skate and then back up your spine as you whizz by [...]

Jargonwatch Submission: Gstalking

Gstalk – v. (derived from GTalk) – when someone consistently sends you chat messages the moment you log into Gmail, regardless of your available/busy setting.

Mr. Deity Season Two, Episode One — “Mr. Deity and The Intel” — Sneak Peek

About an hour ago, I received an email (enclosed below) from my anonymous source regarding the second season of Mr. Deity.  (Season 2, Episode 1, “Mr. Deity and The Intel”)  The email address is attributed to a certain “Group SJR” which has a mysterious looking website with only some names, contact information and the tagline “Issues, Ideas + [...]

My First 5k Road Race

Today I ran my first 5k road race.  Today was also the first time I’ve actually enjoyed drinking a generic American “Lite” beer. Race: 6th Annual Bayshore Road Race, Braintree MA.  Benefit: Room to Dream Foundation My results: 23 minutes, 29 seconds (7:35 pace) I came in 17th place overall (there were 82 runners total [...]

Mr. Deity Season Two Promo (Oct.17)

An “unverified visitor” named Video Addict just sent me this link to a new promo for Mr Deity Season Two: http://crackle.com/play/?ml=fi%3D%26fpl%3D213894%26o%3D12  Looks like the viral marketing interns at Sony are working full force on this project now.  Save the date:  next Wednesday, October 17 …the Deity returns. 

blog stat

time for an inventory check. as of this moment:  60 posts and 1600 views in 3.8 months (and 24 unpublished drafted/notes)  that comes to about 16 posts and 421 views per month, which is much higher than i expected (especially on the posting side) for a scrapbook of random thoughts.  using WordPress (or similar services) causes one’s blog [...]

XO Laptop : The Next Status Symbol?

Although I was a die-hard Mac user for many years, I eventually (circa 2001/2002) abandoned my collection of one-button mice and caved into the Windows culture… and not a moment too soon, because right around that time Apple came out with the iPod and was becoming popular again. So did I budge?  Nah.  Ever the contrarian, I resisted going back. [...]

Universal Theory of Social Networks

Here is a great summary of online social network dynamics, by Charles Miller:  http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2007/09/14/on_social_networks (sometimes all you need is a simple-link, Tumblr-style.)

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