Relaxing West Village cafes are great. Cafe Minerva, just down the street from my apartment provides a great hideout on rainy days – with free Wifi and free flowing espresso!
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Wrapping up Friday afternoon in the Fueled office, marketing intern Diana helps stock up the snack bar. Our new office is great!
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Tiny, networked, open source gadgets are the future. I love the concept of the Twine – a self contained mini computer designed to integrate into a custom created sensor network. Able to work with its own built in sensors, external sensors built for it, or hacked to work with whatever else you can imagine. I wish the current generation of workout tracking gear was built like this – currently there are competing products from Nike, Polar, Garmin, Fitbit, and a range of other devices – and all of them are relatively closed off. Use open standards, get all the devices talking to eachother.
Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet from Supermechanical on Vimeo.
TWINE, A PUCK FILLED WITH SENSORS, DETECTS ANYTHING FROM MOISTURE TO MAGNETISM: STICK IT ANYWHERE, AND IT’LL TWEET STATUS UPDATES AT YOUR COMMAND. AND THERE’S NO CODING SKILLS REQUIRED. … Here’s the basic idea behind Twine: Software and physical stuff should be friends. You can program webpages, data, all kinds of apps to do whatever you want them to–and even use awesome tools like IFTTT.com to hack them together without knowing how to code. But making that software talk to stuff in the real world–especially stuff that’s just laying around your house, and not pre-designed to be a “smart product”–takes PhD-level skills. And that, according to Twine creators David Carr and John Kestner, is just plain wrong.
Twine, A Tiny Gizmo That Holds The Internets Future | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.
NYPD and FBI digging for the remains of Etan Patz, who went missing 33 years ago. Media storm on the closed block in SOHO.
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With Facebook buying Instagram for One Billllllllion dollars, I’ve given a lot of thought to the role Instagram plays in my mobile life, and how I feel about the potential for Instagram to merge into Facebook. I think the two key qualities that allowed Instagram to flourish were it’s simple UI and focus, and it’s alternative-network cachet. Not everybody was on Instagram, and so I felt that sharing photos on the service was sharing them with a select, cool group, devoid of my luddite, stuffy, corporate friends who’s only online presence was Facebook. So, now that my Instragram feed MIGHT be merging into my Facebook feed, I’m considering whether or not I want that to happen.
Luckily, now with Instaport, I don’t have to worry about losing my Instagram photos to deletion if I decide to get them all offline ahead of a potential Facebook merger. Instaport allows me to download all of my Instagram pics in one zip file. Very useful.
Of course, thanks to Instagrams handy multi-network sharing integration, most if not all of my Instagram photos already are on other networks – however Instaport’s functionality is still useful for getting one large dump of all of my photos.
Export, Download and Backup your Instagram photos with Instaport.
Passover Seder was almost a disaster – but thanks to Katz Deli’s tasty, easy passover meals, as well as my friends excellent home cooking, we had an amazing seder. Thank goodness for takeout food. Now I’m a true new yorker – frantically running around town at 6pm assembling the ingredients of a Passover Seder.
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Location aggregation social apps are certainly hot right now. Looking forward to seeing who wins at SXSW next week.. So I can cut down on all these notifications!
Full blog post to come…
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On my way to Marken, a small island just north of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Taken in Noorderpark as I biked north to the farmland.. and originally posted on Instagram.
She’s moved since last time i saw her…
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Painted Ladies on Steiner Street in San Francisco, California.
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Our final day in the front country. Today is a big gear gear and packing day, in preparation for our departure tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow on January 10th, 2012 I’ll be heading to the Driggs, Idaho base of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). I’m participating in the NOLS Winter Outdoor Educator Course, in which I’ll receive outdoor educator training from the leading outdoor training orginization in the United States. In addition to a small amount of classroom learning, we’ll also be living in the backcountry of the Teton Mountains for a while, ski mountaineering up and down the rugged mountains.
NOLS Winter Outdoor Educator Course Description:
Designed for practicing and aspiring winter outdoor educators, this course gives you the skills to teach in any winter wilderness.
We begin with five days of workshops, including a Recreational Level I Avalanche clinic and two days of professional ski instruction at Grand Targhee Resort.
Then we’ll move into the backcountry for miles of skiing in pristine powder. You’ll build elaborate snow shelters complete with kitchen counters, benches, and a cozy bedroom. With coaching from your instructors, you’ll teach classes of your own and be taught by fellow students.
For educators of all levels, teaching in the winter will polish your presentation skills and hone your class management. The longest of our winter courses, these 21 days provide some of the best expedition training at the school, preparing you to camp and lead well in any cold, snowy environment.
During the course, I’ll be almost completely out of contact, including out of contact with my SPOT Satellite Messenger – by orders from NOLS. However, I’ll be keeping daily logs, and will post them all upon my safe return.
This will be my third NOLS course. Previously, I’ve done the NOLS Alaska Backpacking backcountry course in the Talkeetna Mountain Range, as well as the NOLS-WMI Wilderness First Responder training course in Leadville, Colorado.
General promo video for NOLS Teton Valley Winter Courses:
