Blog Cut the Cord My wife and I recently agreed to “cut the cord”. We did not go cold turkey. We did, however, drop our Comcast service bundle.
Blog The Shorpy Website A vintage photography website named Shorpy caught my eye. What a great collection of photographs! Some are user-submitted, in case anyone out there has an old box of vintage gems which they would like to share.
Blog The Future of Computing: It Looks Like Cotton Candy! I really want to know when I can buy one of these.
Blog Light Solution for Dark Homes! Check out what this clever guy is doing to provide light for folks – he is filling empty plastic pop bottles with water and a little bit of bleach.
Blog The Solar Floating Resort Check out this imagining of homes of the future: a floating, energy independent resort sea home! Pretty radical.
Blog Summer Gardening Summer usually brings with it an unquenchable fever for gardening and all sorts of landscaping activities. This year, though, I have barely mowed the lawn. What gives?
Blog Madame Seriziat My father has always loved this portrait of Madame Seriziat. Over the years I have come to admire it a great deal, too. Such a subtle, but beautiful woman.
Blog Check out my new theme My personal blog now has a new theme (design). Hooray for me! I got this theme from ThemeTrust. They have a pretty nice selection of WordPress themes at a fair price. Why did I buy instead of make my own?
Blog Movies in the Afternoon When the weatherman predicts 6″ of snow for a Monday morning and instead you get a day-long, cold, persistent rain, should you count your blessings?
Blog 2012 CBI Tournament: Pitt Prevails Against Butler; Heads To Finals - SB Nation Pittsburgh I want to care, but it is difficult to get really fired up about our chances of winning a tournament that would cement us in the top 130 teams of college basketball.
Blog Coal Mining and the Technologies Reshaping Our World - and Workforce? One of the things that piques my interest in the story above is the concept of mining jobs being replaced by robots. This only makes sense – when you can remove the human element from a dangerous situation, do it.
Blog Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com Internet vendors use cookies and behavior tracking to develop sophisticated and refined user profiles. This data is subsequently used to provide users with ads and products that we will purchase, based on our previous behavior or the behavior of people “like” us.
Blog As the Burgh Turns The Civic Arena is looking more like a post-apocalyptic film set than a playoff hockey rink. It’s it hard to believe that I once saw a dog show inside that crater.
Blog McDonald's Presses Pig Farmers to Stop Using Gestation Stalls It is too bad that it is “news” when a major animal harvester decides to be an iota more humane in the way it procures its product. Shouldn’t people demand that suppliers already behave in humane ways towards the treatment of the animals we eat?
Blog 2nd Web and Consumer Trends The February 2012 Trendwatching.com briefing predicts an emerging consumer trend, “Point-Know-Buy,” which is driven by mobile technologies, massive visual cues, & augmented reality.
Blog Hungry for Hunger Games OK, so I am not a 14 year-old teen, but man did I eat up some Hunger Games last Friday night.
Blog Let There Be Dragons I just finished reading a book, “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.” I’ve been reading it for 3 years. It is an amazing book. I envy the author, Charles Mann.
Blog Sweet Phone for an iPhone I’d love to have one of these items sitting around the house. This is from Etsy and I’d buy it, except that it costs $195. That is a handsome price for the luxury of necking with an old-school cradle. Is it worth it?
Blog Google is Getting "Pittsburgh Cool" The Google offices over in Bakery Square have been named among the top cool “tech spaces” in the country. That is pretty rad.
Blog Samantha Warren's Website This post really captures a great idea for communicating with a customer on potential web designs and plans.
Blog SOPA Protest Today - Political Protest Tomorrow? Google’s homepage rolled out it’s SOPA/PIPA protest today with a “blackout band” across the legendary Google logo.
