Archive for the ‘Off Topic’ Category
Off Topic: McRib v. Bites Gross-off
Normally classy posts like this are reserved for Friday afternoons around beer o’clock but I’ve been drinking caffeine and the uTest crew has started a debate: which is less appealing, Dunkin’ Donuts new “sausage balls” or McDonald’s McRib**? The good, bad, and ugly: Bites: 3 for $1.59, 300 calories, 20g fat, 12g saturated fat, 20mg.
Clean It Up Sox
For the record, I can’t stand baseball [hurl judgment and insults now] so please excuse me when I butcher names and nomenclature. While I can’t stand watching baseball, I’d love to see a marketing campaign that includes baseball. Specifically the notoriously unshaven Red Sox. What a prime candidate for a Gillette sponsorship! As the recent.
Rolling Forecasts & Sarcasm
As an analyst I’m not sure if I should take this one personally. I love it either.
A Residents Opinion on Concord’s Bottle Ban
I oppose it, and here's.
Tour de France & Armstrong Ads
It’s Tour de France time and I need to admit that I havn’t watched the Tour nearly as much as I’d like to this year. I’ll blame 2 week old Phoebe since she can’t do anything about it. I’m adding the TdF to my Tivo’s “To Do List” but in the meantime, here are some.
Welcome Phoebe
As of 6/24/09, I’m officially a new dad. Phoebe Ann Solar was born at 2:59pm & everyone is healthy and happy. Sleep (and my online activity) has been light, as expected. More to.
Google Latitide to Status/Blog
A close friend (“cc” aka Chris Crosby) sent this to me yesterday but I’m just getting around to checking it out this morning; http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-ways-to-share-your-google-latitude.html Two items: “Google Talk location status (beta) automatically updates your Google Talk or Gmail chat status message with your Latitude location.” “The Google Public Location Badge lets you publish your Latitude.
The Twitter Value Debate
A quick background to this post; this morning several friends and I had a conversation spawn about the value of Twitter to the masses. The discussion started between myself (@mattsolar) and my close friend, Pete (@petekuhn). Since we’re both bearish on Twitter’s value I decided to rope in another good friend, and content/Twitter guru, Jim.
The End of Google’s Culture?
This morning a highly publicized post from a top Designer at Google (http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html) illustrated some details about the culture of Google and their analytical dependence on data. I was curious to see if the issue was as significant as John Battelle mentioned on his blog. A quick review of employee postings on GlassDoor.com certainly ended.
Schmidt by day. McKinney by night.
For a long time I’ve privately wondered what the relationship is between Google CEO Eric Schmidt and “The Kids in the Hall” genius Mark McKinney. Watching the Charlie Rose interview gave me the motivation to take my speculations public. They look identical and, given the small population of McKinney’s “home” nation of Canada, the odds.
