“Along the way, [venture capital] has ceased to be the funder of the future, and instead has become a funder of features, widgets, irrelevances. In large part, it also ceased making money, as the bottom half of venture produced flat to negative return for the past decade.” – Bruce Gibney
Monthly Archives: October 2012
The Road to Beer Judging Certification: Light Hybrid, Amber Hybrid, German Wheat & Rye
This week we worked our way through Light Hybrid (6A. Cream Ale, 6B. Blonde Ale, 6C. Kölsch, 6D. American Wheat or Rye), Amber Hybrid (7A. Norther German Alt, 7B. California Common, 7C. Düsseldorf Alt) and German Wheat and Rye (15A. Weizen, 5B. Dunkelweizen, 5C. Weizenbock, 5D. Roggenbier). The hybrid categories are that blurry line between …
The iPad Mini is about Killing the iPod Touch
The iPod touch has always been Apple’s odd model out. More than an iPod yet significantly less than than an iPhone. Three years ago, I bought an iPod touch because I wanted the iOS experience without being tied to AT&T. These days the iPhone is available on multiple carriers and the iPod touch finally has …
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How to Run a Rake Task via Cron Under RVM
Cron needs to be explicitly told which RVM to use, the easiest way to do that is to pretend to open up a bash shell (as all the pre-reqs are loaded by default). Save your afternoon and reuse the following in your crontab: /bin/bash -l -c ‘cd PATH/TO/RAILS/APP && $HOME/.rvm/gems/THE_RVM_RUBY_TO_USE/bin/rake RAILS_ENV=production THE_TAKS:TO_RUN –trace’ for me, …
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Open Loop #5 – I Know It’s Terribly Useful
Beer: Jamie – Maudite, Garrick – Hofbrauhaus Maibock Planet Kubb Network Update Garrick’s beer judging class Piwik and how awesome it is The most meaningful kubb team statistic is – and how it could impact game play. An inordinate amount of time talking about baseball. Kubb & Koffee #3
The Road to Beer Judging Certification: European Amber, Dark Lager, Bock
This week we worked our way through European Amber Lagers (3A. Vienna Lager, 3B. Oktoberfest), Dark Lager (4A. Dark American Lager, 4B. Munich Dunkel, 4C. Schwarzbier) and Bock (5A. Maibock/Helles Bock, 5B. Traditional Bock, 5C. Doppelbock, 5D. Eisbock) The overwhelming attribute of these 3 styles is a prominent toasty, sweet, and complex malt aroma – …
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“I have already been to that site”
@ 1:36:00 Such a fun interview. Eric – thanks for helping spread PlanetKubb.com to the other side of the planet.
6 Players are Too Few, 10 is Better
Coming out of my third kubb tournament of 2012 and my first 6-player tournament, I’m even more convinced a 6-player kubb team is an awkward number. This year at U.S. Nationals this year Jamie, Jim and I played under the Kubbchucks banner. I was the primary inkastare – for something like 9 hours non-stop. After …
Breaking Habits
“What’s sad is that when product managers break stuff, these people blame themselves; my pain is abated by anger, theirs amplified by embarrassment.” – Tim Bray This afternoon, I fought with both an iPhone 4 and an Samsung Galaxy S to find the answer to a question both promised to make easy and straight-forward. Neither …
The Road to Beer Judging Certification: Light Lager and Pilsner
This week’s BJCP class was Light Lager and Pilsners – which is to say, beer I haven’t drank in 15 years. And oh how the quickly the memories returned; the smell of DMS and hormonal college kids in a cramped basement, the epiphany that is the first sip of a Spaten Pils, constantly asking yourself …
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