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Book Review 73: Social Marketing to the Business Customer 5 May 2013 | 12:27 pm
The new world of B2B marketing is fraught with chaos, peril, uncertainty, and unprecedented opportunity. How lucky you are to be part of it! Page 222 I picked up this book at SXSW in 2011, and didn’...
Chris Hardwick in Tacoma 28 Jan 2013 | 03:18 am
On Friday night, The GF and I did something unusual. We started our evening adventures at 9:00 PM by hitting the road for Tacoma. We had 10:30 Tickets for the Chris Hardwick show at the Tacoma Comedy...
Book Review 72: Ready Player One 16 Sep 2012 | 09:02 pm
Going outside is highly overrated. -Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32 One day last fall, I glanced over at my Twitter feed and saw that Wil Wheaton (@WilW) was in Seattle that evening for a read...
Book Review 71: A Dirty Job 30 Jul 2012 | 08:49 pm
"Sometimes," he said to Lazarus, the steadfast golden retriever, "a man must muster all of his courage to simply sit still. How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progre...
Radiolab and Bolero 30 Jul 2012 | 01:39 am
I stood in the middle off the G-Terminal at ORD the other day listening to podcasts. Contrasting with the bustle of busy, annoyed, stressed, and sweaty travelers, RadioLab podcasts explore deep conce...
Book Review 70: Blood Sucking Fiends 7 Jul 2012 | 07:38 am
‘I’ve seen him,” the Emperor whispered. “It’s a vampire.” Tommy recoiled as if he’d been spit on. “A vampire florist?” ‘Well, once you accept the vampire part, the florist part is a pretty easy leap...
Book Review 70: Blood Sucking Fiends 7 Jul 2012 | 07:38 am
‘I’ve seen him,” the Emperor whispered. “It’s a vampire.” Tommy recoiled as if he’d been spit on. “A vampire florist?” ‘Well, once you accept the vampire part, the florist part is a pretty easy leap...
Life in the Garden Part 47: Trading Beer for Beans 25 May 2012 | 04:13 am
Oh, the sacrifices we make for our gardens. For three days, I have surrendered beer for my pole beans. I planted the starters 10 days ago, and all was well. Last year, the pole beans were one of my e...
Book Review 69: DIY U -- Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education 25 Apr 2012 | 04:00 am
There are two basic options the way I see it: fundamentally change the way higher education is delivered, or resign ourselves to never having enough of it. Page IX DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and ...
Book Review 68: Rapture of the Geeks 18 Apr 2012 | 04:00 am
This book is about the future of technology and the evolution, coevolution, and possible merger of humans and computers. Some futurists and AI (artificial intelligence) experts argue that this merger ...
