This is the tumblelog of a consultant, entrepreneur, and graphic designer in eclectic San Francisco, CA.
Once a King, never a Prince. True entrepreneurs are basically unemployable. Nobody wants a former boss as an employee. They don’t just fade away, they start new companies.
The influential Twitter mini-universe is going completely gaga over Brightkite. It’s nearly identical to the mobile geolocater service Plazes with a single exception: Twitter integration. Somehow that’s been sufficient to kick off a firestorm of signups and Brightkite is struggling to keep up with the influx of new users.
For now, it seems Twitter is firmly secure as the bleeding edge communication tool. Any new social networking/geolocating/shiny web 2.0 app would be wise to latch on Twitter’s position as a crucial piece of infrastructure. Oh, and showing off a screenshot of an iPhone app that doesn’t exist yet doesn’t hurt cough Brightkite.
UPDATE: If you want a Brightkite invite to check it out, I have 3 of em. Send me a reply at twitter @junesix, I’ll friend you and then you can direct message me your email address.
I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she’s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn’t what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, “What you doing?” And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, “Looking for the mouse.
Bracelets made from discarded camera lens components by Oye Modern.
I’m not a jewelry guy but these would be great gifts for photo-geek friends/loved ones. Too bad about the price ~US$215.
(via swissmiss.com)
Evan Shaner does amazing “re-imagined” illustrations of other cartoon and comic figures.
The above is Dennis the Menace’s family re-imagined as the Fantastic Four.
Below is Charles Schultz’ Peanuts Gang re-imagined as The Watchmen.
(via laughingsquid.com)
As an industry — as a business model — health care is winning. It is taking everyone’s money with an amazingly low level of accountability for the product it sells.
Sara, have you tried Remember The Milk? It’s a great to-do list app that integrates right into the sidebar of Gmail. Screenshot here. And it’s free!
I just realized that I’m not very nice in the To Do lists I e-mail to myself.
I had no idea Ian Fleming was such a renaissance man. Not only did he write the James Bond novels, earlier in his life he had worked as assistant to the British director of naval intelligence and later wrote a series of memorandums and letters to Col. William Donovan describing what a US intelligence agency should look like. In essence, he wrote up the blueprints for what would become the CIA.
After suffering a heart attack, he changed directions and wrote a book about a magical flying car for his son, Caspar. That book was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, later made into the classic 1968 children’s film.
I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: “You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired.
I pick up the mail this afternoon and in my stack of junk mail is an 8-page glossy booklet from PG&E telling me what it means to be “green.” Inside is a section on dwindling natural resources on Earth followed by recommendations on stuff I can buy to save energy. There’s also a postcard stapled to the center pages that I can fill out and mail to them to receive even more junk mail printed on paper. 8 pages times a good portion of the 11.5 million households in California is a mega crapload of paper.
Way to go PG&E - you guys obviously don’t believe in a single thing you’re preaching.
As told by Shuna Fish Lydon, former pastry chef at The French Laundry.
“No.” Eric said to calm them a bit, “Stand over here, I’m going to show you how to put out this table, I’m going to show you how to cook, how to work like a team, how to put out just one ticket.”
And then he did. He cooked every single course, by himself, with not another soul on the line touching sauce pots or spatulas or garnishes. He jumped this way and that, gracefully, using every part of his body, talking, admonishing, telling, teaching, showing, explaining as he went.
It was the most amazing thing I ever saw in a kitchen.
Eric took over the entire kitchen and cooked all those cooks under the fucking table.
Love reading stories of people just kicking ass at what they do best.
“Like a Candy Land board made of real candy, Clue Premier Edition ($150) ups the game’s realism with nine sunken, three-dimensional rooms, each with precise details including the appropriate furnishings. A non-removable tempered glass lid lets the board function as a display piece between games and keeps curious little hands off the goods inside, while the familiarity of the classic characters lets the grown-ups feel like kids again.”
I dig fancy remakes of simple things.
(via uncrate.com)
