The Orange Dog Thing
I’m fortunate that I get the chance to do some occasional (and not so occasional) traveling for work, mostly to Los Angeles. Recently I had the chance to stay at the Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood, which has a storied history in rock and roll, but now they just include these orange dog-like things in every hotel room.
Read moreOver the Moon Pie
The family went to Charleston, South Carolina for Thanksgiving and swung by the Downtown Market and the Moon Pie General Store.
Read moreThis Hotel is Awesome
In my continuing effort to make more videos, I give you a whirlwind tour of the hotel I visited while speaking at the Streaming Media West conference earlier this week.
Read moreMolly and Daddy Review “Superman” for Nintendo (1987)
We tried, but Superman for the Nintendo, released in 1987, is just terrible. What are you supposed to do? Why are those guys shooting at Clark Kent? How do you become Superman? …and when you finally do become Superman, how are you so easily hurt? How do you get off this door?
Read moreSpeaking at the Variety Big Data Summit
My career in technology has taken me to some interesting places over the last 10+ years: St. Louis (less interesting), Mountain View, Jerusalem, New York, San Francisco, and Beverly Hills, but this last trip to Beverly Hills was the first time I got to speak at a Hollywood event. I recently had the opportunity to be on a panel at the Variety Big Data Summit, and it was…well, I’m pretty sure I’m officially a fancy media executive now.
Read moreAmazon Dash Buttons are Awesome For Everything but Buying Stuff
Sell a wifi-enabled button to buy stuff on Amazon? Sure you’d have to make sure you can’t easily modify the button so that people can buy them and not buy stuff on Amazon with them, but that shouldn’t be too hard. Amazon had barely started selling their $5 “Dash Buttons” before this post on Medium showed up: “How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button to track Baby Data”.
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