Archives for January 2007
Reggie Watts: Out of Control
This is a totally incredible video: Reggie Watts, human beatboxing/sampling. This reminds me of Rahzel, except Reggie is sampling himself and looping it, instead of doing it all at once like Rahzel did.
Either way, I am blown away.
p.s. I had just barely heard of Vimeo before checking out this video. Now it is […]
No Cell Phones on Airplanes
Our plane out of La Guardia is delayed about an hour and it’s sitting on the tarmac, full of passengers, waiting for the all-clear to take off. The entire time that we’ve been grounded a girl across the aisle from me has been gabbing personal details very loudly into her cell phone. It’s incredibly […]
The Wire: Utah Edition
Wow, this story from back home is almost exactly like Stringer and Avon from The Wire.
Chicago this weekend
Leaving behind the pleasant weather of the east coast, CT and I are heading to Chicago this weekend. Our first stop is going to be Alinea, the chemistry-defying restaurant headed by Grant Achatz. This will literally be our first stop. Our flight gets in in the early evening and we haul ass […]
St. John, USVI: Green Turtle
This is a picture I took on Christmas day, 2006. I was snorkeling off the coast of Waterlemon Cay in St. John in the US Virgin Islands. I had an underwater enclosure for my digital camera so I snapped a bunch of photos while I was snorkeling. They all came out slightly […]
Pheeder: #2 Mobile Business idea for 2006
Cool: Pheeder is #2 in the top 10 mobile and telecom business ideas for 2006 at Springwise.com.
Voice over IP isn’t just making phone calls cheaper. It’s also spawning innovative services that make calls smarter. Case in point: a new start-up called Pheeder, which allows users to communicate with groups of people simultaneously, with just one […]
My Year in Cities, 2006
These are cities I spent a night in during 2006. I spent multiple non-contiguous nights in cities marked with an asterisk. The cities are in chronological order based on the first time I spent the night in them.
Atlanta, GA
Logan, UT*
Brooklyn, NY*
North Bennington, VT*
Berlin, Germany*
Amsterdam, NL
New Orleans, LA
Baton Rouge, LA
Natchez, MS
Clarksdale, MS
Memphis, TN
Ullin, IL
Alton, IL
Moline, […]