Thanks for your interest. I think we have a lot to offer each other.

Of course you have questions, let’s chat and get to know each other. Here’s a list of references.

You’d like to do a background check? Sure, I understand. No, that’s cool, I’m not offended — due diligence and all that.

Facebook account login? You want me to give you my username and password to Facebook?

…

Well, thanks for your time but I really must be going. No, there’s nothing to hide but this crosses a line.

No hard feelings, I’m sure you understand.

My pal Dean is a smart guy.

For as long as I’ve known him, he’s been paid to talk to people. From college professor to the book lecture thing he does these days, his jobs have involved going up in front of a crowd. Now he’s looking to do it from the comfort of his living room with podcasting.

Let me be up front here — I love podcasts, so my eyes got all big and saucer-like when he shared his plans. I just looked at my phone: Planet Money, The Bombcast, TEDTalks and UIE Brain Sparks are just some of the 17 feeds I listen to weekly. Many come and go depending on mood, but I hover around a core dozen or so. (I listened to far, far more back when I wasn’t in meetings most of the day.)

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I firmly believe that history was made today:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

Double Fine reached out to their fans directly to help them fund a new videogame via Kickstarter and had their goal of $400,000 smashed within 8 hours. By the end of the first day of putting the call out, they earned over a million.

This is the day of $30 million game budgets, so $1 million isn’t necessarily a lot on its own, let alone $400k, but Tim Schafer and his studio aren’t bound by a traditional publisher.

They aren’t answering to some other company’s business needs and they don’t have to develop a game that’s everything to everyone. They’re in a unique position of working directly with and for their audience and I’ll bet they’re going to change the entire entertainment industry as a result.

Imagine music, movies, books and TV. How would they … Read More »

I’ve been knocking around a blog post idea for the past week or so about how much media and information I consume. I wanted to talk about how my consumption compares to people just 20 years ago — books, music, articles, movies, television, advertisements, games, etc.

Well, this isn’t that post. It’s a heady topic and I don’t feel I could do it justice.

So this is the post to say that I had the idea, and it was a good one, but it’s not going to happen right now.

Last year my wife and I bought a new fridge. It’s big, it’s black and it holds a lot of food — it was everything we needed. It’s a single-door bottom-freezer unit and we’re very happy with it, especially when we remember what it replaced, but there’s something that’s been driving me crazy about it since the day it arrived…

Right in front are the temperature controls for both the fridge and the freezer that are pretty straight forward. Simple up-and-down arrows and a big digital display for each — a child could figure this out, right?

But wait… is the freezer just barely colder than the refrigerator? No, that can’t be right — if that were true either my milk would be freezing or my ice would be melting… and besides, both defaults are 4. Yeah, everything’s fine — that’s a relief!

No. … Read More »