Woke up this morning to the road construction crew sawing through cement. Wondering why it’s so loud, I wander half-awake through the house, to discover they’re inches from the Neon – sawing though my driveway. Just outta sight are three giant Caterpillar road construction monsters. Damn Vogons.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Cars Shouldn’t Smoke. I’m Sure of That.
Last Thursday, as I come to the end of the exit ramp off Hwy 100, the Neon started smoking. Knowing this is generally a bad sign, I called up Stinson Auto and they sent over a tow truck. The tow truck driver took one whiff of the car and frantically disconnected the battery. “I don’t …
Move On Down the Street
It’s official. Old house sold, new house bought. Move underway as you read this.
Hugh’s Take on Customers as Silo
American Children Helping Uganda’s Invisible Children
Jen found out about the horrid plight of Uganda’s night walking children via Daily Candy featuring The Name Campaign. Hell yea we supported the effort – and got the dog tags to prove it. Mine reads: Yakobo Atidi Age 12 To raise more aid money and expose this global atrocity to more Americans, our own …
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First Crack 78. The Trouble with Business Models
As I promised, here’s the second half of my conversation with J Wynia on geeky stuff. (The first half is at GlassTooBig.com) Here, we talk about making money, keeping overhead low, income diversification, and making sure an idea needs a business model. Inspiring our Conversation Gillmor Gang Hugh MacLeod Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week 37Signals’ …
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Duh. Advertisers are the Customers, not Viewers.
Listening to Tod Maffin’s latest Todbits (made my Podcast Picks as well) and pondering his bit about American Idol running 3 minutes after the hour to thwart PVR-watchers and encourage live-TV-watchers. Honestly, I feel a little silly. All this time I was wondering why it felt like broadcast media outlets despised their customers. Switching up …
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Wanted: Recommendations on 32″ LCD HDTV
We’re moving into a new house this weekend and we’re pondering an upgrade to a wall-mountable, LCD, HDTV, 16:9, something reasonable like 32″, and somewhere south of $1500. If possible, I’d like something with an HD-tuner already built-in. Any thoughts? Here’s what I’ve found thus far that looks promising: Hyundai ImageQuest Q321 Samsung LNS3241D Sharp …
Podcasting is Still Underestimated.
Jim Cuene asks: [Is podcasting the] Next shiny new object or real game changer? It all depends on the game in question – and how long the game is (the future takes a while). For existing ad-supported broadcast radio – yes. The game is over. Case in point – this weekend we drove 6 hrs …
While I Dig Through the Backlog, Here’s Some Convergence
J Wynia and I recorded a conversation last week. I’ve been sitting on the raw audio of the conversation (and a couple more) cause life (i.e. clients & moving prep) took priority to this podcast. So, J went and posted the first half of our conversation – on Convergence and technology over at GlassTooBig.com.