by David | Feb 20, 2015 | design
Despite what you may have heard, I do not spend all of my time following IKEA’s every move and hacking their furniture into cat habitats. But I do enjoy good design at prices that are actually within my reach, so I was bummed to have missed the limited-edition...
by David | Feb 12, 2015 | technology, working
You’ve heard, and probably experienced, at least metaphorically, that old saw, The Cobbler’s children have no shoes, or some variant thereof. I know lots of professionals, especially consultants, who can’t seem to find the time to apply their skills...
by David | Feb 9, 2015 | photo
Snowy days start slow Sodium lamps orange glow Get up, time to go
by David | Feb 6, 2015 | design, eating, technology
It’s been some time since we’ve had a kitchen technology update, not since the the two-port usb kitchen, in fact. So pull up a chair and I’ll tell you more than you wanted to know about how I installed a dedicated kitchen tablet. Every now and again,...
by David | Feb 2, 2015 | photo
There’s nomageddon like snowmageddon Like nomageddon I know Not a thing about it is appealing Everything in traffic will go slow Nowhere could you get that trapped feeling When you are shov’ling that extra snow There’s no people like snow people...
by David | Jan 29, 2015 | technology, working
This one’s going to be hard. Honestly, most of my Marketing Resolutions so far have been things that I already believe in and more or less already do; reminders to myself and maybe encouragement to others. This one is going to be tricky: I resolve not to...
by David | Jan 26, 2015 | culture, photo, technology
A “selfie stick” if you haven’t heard, is something like a monopod and something like a cry for help. These gizmos, used to take photos of oneself and one’s friends (if one has any) at greater than arms-length, are apparently all the rage and...
by David | Jan 22, 2015 | culture, working
I resolve to focus on execution. There’s a bias for Big Ideas. I like Big Ideas as much as the next guy, but in my life as a marketer – not a philosopher – I have to constantly tie Big Ideas back to execution. That doesn’t mean having no...
by David | Jan 21, 2015 | technology, working
It doesn’t matter how careful you are, if you’re the last human in a world of zombies, you’re going to get eaten sooner or later. You may not have noticed, but one of the last humans not using gmail – that’s me – recently joined the...
by David | Jan 20, 2015 | eating
I know what you’re thinking, “silly cow, every day is cheese day!” Well you’re not wrong, but I’ve just learned that today is National Cheese Lover’s Day here in the USA. Says who? Who cares! Is that really where the apostrophe...
by David | Jan 15, 2015 | media
Job getting you down? Maybe you need ducks. HT @io9
by David | Jan 14, 2015 | culture, reading & writing
Let’s not dwell on why I was looking up the word callipygian, or, for that matter, why I checked the Google books ngram graph for it. Let us instead wonder, who, or maybe what, a century and change before Minaj, before Kardashian, even before Mix-a-Lot, inspired...
