A few weeks ago I started keeping track of a list of things I’ve fallen in love with over the last year or so, in hopes of putting them all together, and this is the result. In no particular order, these are all items that I’ve used and have impressed me, hopefully they’ll give you …
Yearly Archives: 2013
Using a prepaid Koodo iPhone SIM in Canada (as a traveling American)
Note: This is a guide aimed at getting a fast, semi-cheap, data/voice/text plan for Americans with unlocked phones traveling in Canada and information is up-to-date as of November 2013. Whenever I travel to another country, about a week before the trip I hit up the prepaid SIM travel wikia page for info on cheap options …
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How to: doing time-lapse driving videos with a GoPro Hero3
A few months ago, I picked up a GoPro Hero 3 camera and I recorded a few bike races on it. While playing with the integrated iPhone app, I noticed there was a time-lapse option so I decided to play around with it. After an hour of testing on a couple short drives, I tried …
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The Mini Maker Faire kind of blew my mind
I always wanted to attend the original Maker Faire in the Bay Area and the annual shows that followed, but they started soon after I moved to Oregon and they never overlapped with my travel down there. I recently noticed they were touring around Mini Maker Faires to different cities and I was delighted when my …
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On Lanyrd, investing, and selling
Lanyrd blew me away from the day it launched. It’s a way to track speakers and attendees of upcoming conferences, but it’s also a social web application. It was the first site/app I used that didn’t require yet another login (it used the then-new Twitter auth). It was the first Twitter-powered app that was instantly …
San Francisco summer trip
I spent the last week of my daughter’s summer vacation taking her to San Francisco to have fun for a few days. What follows is a summary of things I liked, tips, and a few photos from the vacation. The California Academy of Science is pretty amazing, combining an aquarium, a natural history museum, a …
Glacier National Park, Montana
Last month, I took a family car trip over to Glacier National Park in Montana. I’d never been to Montana before, but since it was within 12 hours of driving from Oregon, I figured it’d be a nice experience for my 8 year-old daughter that mirrored all the mini vacations I took with my parents …
1000 Cones, a video and Q&A with Jesse Thorn
I was a backer of 1,000 free ice cream cones, a Kickstarter launched by Jesse Thorn and Jordan Morris to fly to Denver to give away 1,000 ice cream cones to the public for free. Today, Jesse posted the video from the event and it’s a wonderful little 4 minutes of silly fun giving away ice …
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The future of airline sites
This video demo of a mocked-up airline website of the future is stunning. A lot of people are focusing on this as a way of airlines to play travel agent, since there are city guides and hotel information, but the essence of what makes this demo great is the simple ease of use of planning …
Bikespike
There aren’t enough bike theft deterrents out there in the world and bike locks are almost literally a band-aid solution so I was glad to be a Kickstarter backer of this project. I didn’t know about this video ad for the product until today, it’s kind of awesome.
A Whole Lotta Nothing 