Here's the view from my rock in the middle of the Roaring Branch of the Battenkill in Sunderland, Vermont. I was out for the day, taking a vacation day from work to fish and do a volunteer Web usability study at Orvis. It was a great day — got to have lunch with my grammar [...]
Laser dunes Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Or sun through blinds and curtains… The unusual shapes caught my eye at home this afternoon. Shot it with my cell phone.
Richard Florida, the guy who wrote Rise of the Creative Class has a new book, Who's Your City, How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. In it he argues that "Globalization is not flattening the world; on the contrary, the world is spiky. Place [...]
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With the first-in-the-nation presidential primary receding in New Hampshire's rearview mirror like a magical carnival from a Ray Bradbury story – sprung up all wild-circus music, clowns, barkers and wizards in the middle of a vacant lot one day and packed up and on down the road the next – it seemed like a good [...]
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Last week I was saying to Damon, "Man, you know what I’d like to build? A tool that would allow me to pre-plot and save running routes so I'd know the exact mileage without having to drive them out. That way I could vary my training runs more often. And I could share my routes, [...]
Our friend Alyssa from Massachusetts takes an amusing poke at voters in New Hampshire who remain undecided up to the day before the primary. It prompted this probably over-sincere and humorless defense from me in her comment box — which I share also here in case someone's feeling guilty about being yet undecided (you now [...]
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Not to watch any reruns in 2008. To make the whole year of 2008 a love poem to Kris, which she deserves and then some. To write more. To listen better. To pray better (which will probably also require better listening). To practice Spanish with the kids. To drop 20 pounds. To keep at least [...]
From futurelab blog, a list of top business and innovation articles, including a provocative one from the Wall Street Journal that asks whether a business plan helps or hurts a startup business, a piece on how leaders create and use networks, and a framework for decision making using the " Cynefin framework, which allows executives [...]
About to head out to spend my lunch hour buying a new washing machine. Less than a week before Christmas. Bah, humbug. Here's a warning for those heading to Sears — if you are considering a Kenmore frontloading washer (417.43042200) then consider ours lasted a measly four years. A repairman came out from Sears yesterday [...]
This month's issue of PC Magazine came in the mail the other day. In it there's a project – how to add a USB port to your guitar. I flip straight to it, begin eyeballing the parts, trying to figure out what I have kicking around and what I'd need to buy… Then I have [...]
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