Director of Marketing Insults Journalists
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Business & Marketing, Twin Cities | 2 Comments »Heard a story on NPR today about St. Paul being in the spotlight for the Republican National Convention. The part of the story that stuck out to me was when Erin Dady, director of marketing for the City of St. ...
11 Years to Walk on the Moon
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in History, Science | No Comments »On October 4, 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit Earth. Not content with second place, the United States quickly rallied to achieve their own interstellar milestones. On July 29, 1958—50 years ago today—President Dwight Eisenhower ...
Observations from Reading the Harry Potter Series
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Books | 2 Comments »Early this morning I finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and so finished reading the entire seven-book Harry Potter series. I've read them all before, of course, but I wanted to do it one shot. It took about ...
Me on the Something Beautiful Podcast
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Just for Fun | No Comments »You can hear nearly an hour of me on the Something Beautiful podcast. For some reason Jonathan Blundell thought it'd be fun to talk to me, so there I am. We talk about a wide range of issues, including: Church Marketing ...
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is Here
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Internet | No Comments »Josh Whedon (of Buffy and Firefly/Serenity fame) has finally released his online superhero musical spoof, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day. It comes in three installments that will be released today, Thursday and ...
Sixpence None the Richer is Back
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Music | 1 Comment »After a four-year hiatus the band Sixpence None the Richer is back. If you're not familiar with them, they were the buzz band of the late 1990s with the hit song "Kiss Me," but they were also famous for lead ...
Being Neighborly with your Neighbors
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Posted in Daily Grind | No Comments »Shaun Groves has a great blog post about getting along with your neighbors, though it can really apply to getting along with anyone. Sometimes it's too easy for relationships to go sour and it's so hard to make things right. ...
Why I Returned my Nintendo Wii
Saturday, July 12th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 4 Comments »I owned a Nintendo Wii for less than 24 hours. For the uninformed, the Wii is Nintendo's latest game system that seems to engage the non-gamer by using motion sensing technology. Basically instead of pushing buttons, you move the entire ...
What’s Five Iron Frenzy Up To?
Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »Every year or so I like to follow up on the members of the lost but not forgotten ska band, Five Iron Frenzy, and see what they're up to. It usually happens when iTunes shuffles across a Five Iron track ...
I Want to Write a Fake Twitter Character
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Internet | 11 Comments »OK, we all know that I'm a geek. But the latest and greatest proof of that is that my favorite posts on Twitter come from fictional characters. Darth Vader, Cobra Commander, Fake John McCain, Fake Barack Obama. I don't know ...
