Many years ago I picked up on a barely humorous saying about “infinite spare time”. Someone would say “can you take a look at this in your infinite spare time.” It was an acknowledgment that we realize that our time is short, and we are all busy, but whatever “it” was, it was […]
Within the past few days a variety of events with friends and family have happened to get me thinking seriously about the impact we have within one another’s lives. In three different scenarios with people close to me, its become apparent that so many of us are completely oblivious to the idea of legacy or […]
When we moved 1,000 miles from Southeastern Wisconsin to Central Connecticut in the midst of the Summer of 2006, we were really clueless about WHERE we were going. And aside from one friend on my side and an Uncle on my wife’s side, the two of us were pretty much on our own in […]
Yesterday a friend jokingly commended me for supporting a local business. As someone who has spent over 20 years developing franchise companies and replicable business systems, it probably would be shocking to most who care, just how much time I spend avoiding franchises. Especially food franchises.
While I would like to convince myself that I […]
This past week I took the train into NYC to attend my very first meetup for the Augmented Reality New York (ARNY). Due to a rain/traffic combo, I missed the earlier express train from New Haven and arrived at the Porter Novelli office on Varick Street just after the first presentation, a game demo, […]
Over the past 30 days I’ve been watching repeatedly the recent Ironman movie as well as Batman Begins and the Dark Knight. As I’ve written in the past, I am very intrigued by the idea of singular super-empowerment: the idea that one person can transform themselves into something greater, for good or for evil, […]
Pardon my take on an old Todd Rundgren song, but this past week I saw a lot discussion within Augmented Reality tweet-streams about the possibility of Apple making a head mounted display (HMD) that really looked dated. Five years ago, or so, Oakley began manufacturing a sunglasses/audio playback device, called Thump. I wrote them […]
Yesterday, Christmas Day, I read about Jason Calacanis‘ excitement about Blippy, a new social way for people to share what you’re buying with others. YIKES. I signed up for the beta waiting list of course, but started to think about the ramification of monitoring everything that I buy over time. Everything from […]
Here we are on the cusp of 2010 – less than three weeks away. Yet this week my attention was drawn to the fact that both the House and the Senate may be passing an expansion of the Low-Power FM (LPFM) Radio Service Act (Local Community Radio Act, HR1147 and S592) before returning home […]
A friend of mine just sent me a text message, asking about my satisfaction with the new Motorola Droid that I just picked up a few weeks back. My satisfaction with this little device, and continued excitement still today, can’t be emphasized enough. The last time I was this excited about a digital device […]