No direct progress today, mostly a ‘cleaning the desk’ day. Think found a solution to the roadblock I mentioned yesterday – not enough spare cycles to verify.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Shrug The Movie
Thanks to Tyler Cowen for passing along word of Atlas Shrugged the Movie. Fun Facts from the previous link: First draft of Part 1’s (of 3 ??!!) script completed and rated 8/10 in ‘philosophical fidelity to the novel’. Angelina Jolie is interested in playing, “the greatest female character in all of literature”, Dagny Taggert. “…everybody …
T-80 and Counting
Hit a fairly big roadblock today. I’m sure there’s a number of workarounds. I’m guessing this difficulty is a hint that I need to think about the mechanics of the project differently. I very well could be building it the hard way – and the roadblock is telling me that.
Katie Couric Steals Bloggers Pen
“They pulled me out of the auditorium and told me that they’d become aware of the fact that I had a blog, they said, ‘We don’t want you to participate.’” Wow. Big Media just keeps giving us reasons to ignore them. UPDATE: and, according to this New York Times article on the event, we are …
It All Comes Back To One
A year ago, I wrote about how podcasting’s underlying technology biases really, really small audiences. Audiences of 1. This morning, listening to the latest Evil Genius Chronicles, Dave asked how small the audience size has to be before I (you/we) stop. Turns out, my number is 1. Good to know.
Way Off Target
I caught the same article Dave did this morning at the CP Blotter and didn’t think anything of it. Thankfully, Dave did a little poking around and found the “three of every four dollars in profit” is not on all of Target profit, but rather on the 15% increase in profits in a single quarter. …
T-81 and Counting
In the interests of incremental deadlines, I’ve added this project to the list of demos at the upcoming MinneDemo.
T-82 and Counting
Back from a week’s vacation, tanned, rested, and ready. A lot has happened, and this morning I put a few more wheels in motion. Lots of smaller things that have been sitting on the To Do list for way too long. The road construction outside the home office is mostly over – enough so I’m …
Maybe My Star Tribune Subscription Is Paying For Itself
Came back from vacation with 2 Sunday papers on my doorstep. Inspiring a real good conversation Sunday afternoon with my sister, Kari. She’s just that bit younger than me that newspapers don’t exist in her world. She doesn’t read them and she was nice enough to listen to me vent. As always, the writing in …
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Paging Mr. Mustard
One of the primary reasons we headed to Chicago last week – aside from friends, family, and Millennium Park – was a couple of food items we last found there. Mister Mustard Hot Mustard Paula’s No Oil Cilantro & Lime Salad Dressing Grocery store after grocery store. No luck. Thankfully, the Mister Mustard is available …