Thank you, Southwest Airlines’ stewardess. Thank you for asking me if everything was okay tonight on my flight to San Francisco. I realize that it was probably not usual for a 38-year-old man who was trained to kill in the army to spend 4 hours on your flight desperately fighting back tears that were streaming down his face. I realize that grown men, socially, are expected to maintain their manly persona. I am sorry. I loved her first.
Tuesday morning those who attended Chicago Ideas Week had a chance to visit what TIME managing editor Rick Stengel called “the most interesting place in the universe - Bill Clinton’s mind.” For a little over an hour, Clinton spoke with Stengel on unemployment, national dept, the economy and of course – innovation.
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I finally decided that Netflix is not for me. I have been a subscriber for years but realized what I really used the service for was not streaming at all, but those little ol’ discs that were sent to me regularly. Why you ask? Getting past the obvious terrible selection of titles available for streaming, I also truly enjoy the movie watching experience that streaming just does not offer. Let me explain. Continue Reading →
if you know me, i become bored pretty quickly. that includes my blog. time for a reboot with a renewed focus on shorter posts and more media.
i have been reading guy kawasaki’s new book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, and realized a few things about myself and how i approach not only my career, but life in general.
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an interview lwin and min maung, founders of bizspark company, accolade systems. check out how they first built an amazing tank of a robot using .net technology and actually are able to control it using a windows phone 7. i even hop on the windows phone 7 robot for a ride.
after a long day of hacking in chicago it is not bad to come back to this view
