About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Sony’s dog is just the first step in machines taking over – via our hearts. This week’s triple play is dedicated the androids so near to us me must destroy them.
As you know, I’m a big fan of Kris and Betsy’s Croncast. A while back, Kris bought a Scion xB. In a recent episode, Betsy commented how the car fits Kris. How it’s the right car for him and who he is. It’s still a unique enough vehicle round these parts that I notice each one. Every time I see one, I think of Kris. So, yes, Betsy, I agree.
A couple years back I spent a good chunk of time in Minneapolis’ Warehouse District. Aside from convenience (it’s right between downtown and NE) it’s got a nice comfortable, creative vibe to it. Unfortunately, there’s not a hands down winner for a good cup of coffee.
If you prefer coffee mixed with single speed bikes – the Go Coffee inside the 1 on 1 bike studio has free wifi, great service, great people, and decent espresso.
If you’re looking for a quieter place with plush seats and perhaps a glass of wine instead of their on average coffee, then walk across the street to Marysburg Books.
Then, a block north, there’s Moose and Sadies. My memories of it are dark, cave of a place emanating 50 years of cigarette smoke and stale pastries. When I needed a hit of second-hand smoke, I’d pop in there.
Not anymore.
They’ve completely remodeled the place. Today, it’s bright, sunny, place that’s easy to move around, with a good looking breakfast menu. I was stunned. Impressed. Amazed at the transformation. The coffee even tastes better. Still not free wifi though.
UPDATE 28 Friday 2006:
There’s a Dunn Bros in that neighborhood now – 228 Washington Ave North specifically. So, the race for best coffee shop is fully on.
Sorry for the late notice – if you’re looking for something to do tonight and want to learn about podcasting – specifically with iLife (Garage Band, iTunes, iPhoto) and .Mac – pop up to the Apple Store in Roseville by 6pm tonight (Nov 2nd) and you can get a demo from me.
Local NBC affiliate KARE11 came by this morning to talk podcasting and we continued the ‘who’s the audience when everyone publishes?’ conversation.
I don’t think this is a question about too much stuff to pay attention to, it’s a question about ownership of the publication process.
Traditionally, recording companies, television stations, newspaper publishers had an iron grip on the voices that were published. Their whims determined which perspectives received airtime and column inches. They kept the amount of information published down to what their capacity could support – an no more. They were gatekeepers not filters.
I’d much rather have the problem of too much to choose from than gatekeepers preventing things from being published.
“It isn’t as astonishing the number of things I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren’t so” – Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, 1912
This Sunday, the Vikings are playing the Lions. I’m confident they’ll be keeping score throughout the game. Yard by yard, play by play. Rather than having the refs remember who played better and declaring an arbitrary score on Monday morning,
There’s a huge, often un-acknowledged difference between what people say they do and what they do. This delta widens with time. If you’re looking for accuracy – metrics need to be captured in context. If you’re looking for fiction – then making up what someone did two days ago is as valuable as asking them to remember (making it up just might be more interesting).
PodcastAlley, Podcasts.Yahoo.com, and a number of the other podcast directories offer ranking and voting for “your favorite podcast”. There are three problems with this;
I’ll let Mark Ramsey wrap this one up for us:
“If we want the advertising community to place any credence whatsoever in our measurements, then we are obliged to use measurement methodology which inspires credence.”
We’re just past the first commercial break and nothing interesting to report, other than the bickering irritation of road-weary families. Blah.
Wait, they’re visiting Costa Rica’s Doka Estate Coffee Plantation. Totally makes up for it.
Roadblock: Find the red coffee bean
Jen: “Digging through 800lbs of green coffee beans, that’s all you babe.”
Detour: Relic or Ripe?
We’d harvest bananas – the pulley system seemed interesting and it’d be nice to know the story of my morning fruit. That, and I’m not in the mood for a vertigo-inducing bridge walk.
Rather than the great armchair travel adventures previous Amazing Races have been, this season is turning out to be the worst family vacation ever.
Current Standing of Garrick’s Favorites:
I got word this weekend that Mike O’Connor has closed up shop on this community podcasting site – Sex and Podcasting. I’ll miss S&P – haven’t listened to the Geezercast, and love the premise. This means there’s an opening on my gPod.
No worries, it was quickly filled by Merlin Mann’s 43Folders podcast. Merlin had me laughing with tears while on the freeway this afternoon with his Telephone made of Human Ass and Weekly Wrapup 2005-10-21.
We all know them, we all love them, this week’s triple play goes out to your favorite unstable girlfriend.
On a cool October day, while on my quest for some independent Twin Cities music, I sat down with John Ostby formerly of SpyMob. He had an acoustic guitar, I had a mic. We talked a little about the Twin Cities music scene, but mostly he played. Enjoy.
Listen to John Ostby and His Guitar [24 min]