If you’re in NYC this week, come join us tomorrow night to celebrate the launch of my sister Jill’s new party cookbook “Party like a Culinista“. A good time will be had by all!
“Drop in anytime between 6p-9p on October 5th at the Griffin Court Penthouse (454 w54th Street NYC) for food, advanced copy books, and joyful hugging and squealing!”
Tonight was Gal Natel’s birthday, and we had a great time partying in our own private ballroom. Hurray!
Get ready to root for Team Warmi in this year’s TriState Tough Mudder! This year, me and a large group of people have signed up to do the race – for many of us, including myself, this will be our first Tough Mudder race. I’m looking forward to this race because, actually, this will be my first official “adventure race” – I’ve done a bunch of triathlons and marathons and other running and biking races, but never a whole obstacle course race like this.
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On 2011/07/14 I sailed with Captain Brian Ohlfest to challange my ASA 101 Certification, and passed with flying colors! I completed the on water practical exam easily, and got a 100% on my written evaluation. Awesome!
Also, I sailed in my first regatta today – Seaforth Sailing Club’s Pau Hana. Although we didn’t win, we had a great time sailing around Mission Bay.
My sister Jill is about to release her new cookbook, “Party Like A Culinista“, from Lake Isle Press and available on Amazon. In preparation for the book’s release, we had a big rooftop party, and filmed it to make into a trailer. A few stills from the shoot…
Update.. the trailer is out! Check it out here..
I spent this weekend camping with friends in Maryland at the PEX Summer Festival – a great time!
Contact me if you’d like to see the full photo set!
See this image in my Flickr Photostream.
Congratulations Shalini and Chris! This weekend I was up in New Haven at their beautiful wedding.. a few quick photos..
Thanks to Dennis Kwan for taking great pro pics!
Today marks the start of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.. with the crush of people coming into town, and the crazy spectacle of a large portion of them, it’s like being on another planet.. Planet Bluegrass… I’m delighted, and horrified.
Listening to: Ghostland Observatory – Midnight Voyage
Long time friend Chris is getting married at the end of June. To celebrate, 6 of us got together in Telluride, Colorado for a bachelor party weekend of mountain biking, camping, climbing, hiking and relaxing. A few quick pictures… (Slideshow)
Congrats Shalini and Chris!
After running the Fish Hatchery 5K, me, Will and John drove through the mountains to Vail, Colorado for the Teva Mountain Games.
Professional and amateur outdoor adventure athletes from the Vail Valley and around the world will converge upon the mountains and rivers of Vail to compete in eight sports and 23 disciplines including: x-country, freeride, slopestyle and road cycling, freestyle, 8-Ball, sprint and extreme kayaking, raft cross, World Cup Bouldering, stand up paddle sprint and surf cross, as well as trail, mud and road running, dog comps and the GNC Ultimate Mountain Challenge.
A few photos from the day.. .
Today for our day off from Wilderness First Responder training, a group of us got together to go into the town of Leadville, Colorado to run the Fish Hatchery 5k trail race. This was the first smaller community race I’ve run in a while – but it was by far the HARDEST 5k I’ve ever experienced. The course starts at the Fish Hatchery at about 9,600 feet above sea level, and immediately climbs up to about 10,000 feet. The climb, with the combination of the mountain trail, intense elevation gain, and very thin air made it the hardest I’ve ever experienced. By the time I got to the top, I was breathing as hard as I could, I was feeling dizzy, and my hands had started to go numb. After the hill, the rest of the course was a beautiful trail through the trees, around a lake, and then a descent back down to the fish hatchery. We all had a great time running, and everybody won a raffle prize at the end. Finally, our team mate Will Dodds, who runs for The University of Texas at Austin, took first in his age group! Congrats Will!
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During college at University of Colorado at Boulder, I worked at the college radio station Radio1190 KVCU as both the RPM Music Director and the host of my own radio show, The Acid Lounge. During the show’s 5 year run, I had the privelege of having DJ and producer Chad Westcott on as my co-host. Chad is still working at Radio1190 now as the primary host of the Mix-Up/Mash-up show Sub-Harmony, which airs Sunday nights from 20:00 – 22:00. This week since I was in town, I got to come hang out on the show, and DJ my own guest set for the second hour of the show. I didn’t have much time to prepare, so I ended up DJing the entire set live, straight off my my iPhone 4 using the Djay iPhone app. Overall it was a fun experience playing live on the air from my iPhone. Here are a few pics from the studio, as well as link to the show podcast and playlist. Podcast is also available on Chad’s site Audiocasto.
Set List
Previously, I’ve written about my old radio show The Acid Lounge…
Every Memorial Day weekend in Boulder, Colorado, the community comes together for the Boulder Creek Festival. Vendors, artists, and entrepreneurs from near and far come to set up booths up and down the Boulder Creek Path, and everyone comes out to check it out. This year, I met up with Chad and Amber to check it out. I went to the Boulder Creek Festival on 2011-05-30.
Congrats to brother Jason on graduating from Columbia University!
For reasons unknown, I’ve been featured on the latest concert poster for English Kills, who are playing April 21st at Arlene’s Grocery in NYC. Highlighting my recent less-than-great haircut, with mullet added for effect. Designed by Jeff Capossela.
Wrapping up – South By Southwest 2011. SXSW this year was crazy – more forums, panels, speakers, meetings, shmoozing, happy hours, parties and concerts than could reasonably be handled in a single week. But I tried to do as much as I could, and had a great time in the process. Here’s an itemized account of all the media I produced during the conference.
Photos
I actually brought both my SLR and medium sized camera (Canon G10) out to Texas for SXSW. However, upon arrival and the first day of the crazy schedule, I decided that it would be easier, and actually much much more relevant to shoot photos of the week exclusively on my iPhone4. I always had it with me, and since it’s a phone too, I could upload the photos to the web immediately, rather than waiting until I got home. Overall the photos weren’t quite as nice as the ones I could get with my SLR, but I think it was the perfect too to capture the spirit of the event. Throughout the week, I tried to take pics of all the things I did, people I saw, and every checkin. Every time I checked into a location on Foursquare, I attached a picture of where I was at the moment to the checkin. Using FlickrSquare, pics from 4SQ posts were automatically added to my Flickr photo stream, for one unified stream of photos.
This year at South By Southwest Interactive, QR Codes – high resolution barcodes used to deliver web addresses and other data to mobile phones by way of scanning with a phones built in camera – were EVERYWHERE. Amidst the seas of catchy flyers, posters, leaflets, coasters, handouts and stickers, almost everything had a QR code emblazoned on it. Even napkins in bars had QR Codes.
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Last night, my sister Jill and I went to see Steve Martin play bluegrass with The Steep Canyon Rangers at The Music Hall of Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Great show!
The group just came out with a new album, “Rare Bird Alert“. Listen:
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers – Rare Bird Alert
Highlights video..
This year at South by Southwest, I attended the Ignite Austin event, with the whole Morpheus Media crew. Ignite is a get together that features fast paced 5 minute mini lectures. Each presenter gets 5 minutes, and 20 slides, which auto advance. Presenters can, and do, talk about anything they want, and the crazy fast pace often leads to some very interesting presentations. Ignite parties are held all over the country, including Austin and NYC. Also at Ignite, there’s the tradition of doing an egg drop. For Ignite during SXSW in Austin, I decided to give it a try.
We were given 1 egg, 5 sheets of paper, 3 feet of masking tape, and 10 minutes to make a container that would protect an egg from a 1 story fall. I believe my idea was sound, but had a few construction issues which prevented it from working. Next time, I would have used a parachute design for the drogue, rather than pom pom design. I think if we had taken more care in efficiently constructing it, we could have had the necessary materials to construct a parachute from an entire piece of paper.
Panel – Voices From The HTML5 Trenches: Browser Wars IV
Summary:
The term HTML5 now refers to the much-hyped kitchen sink of the web. It covers *everything* including things not officially part of the HTML5 specification. Yet “HTML5” is now the catch phrase to describe the new wave of platform competition on the web, and browser vendors vie to outdo each other on benchmark tests touting compliance and performance. Every major browser vendor — Apple, Opera, IE, Chrome, and Firefox — will have a significant browser release by SxSW 2011. Microsoft’s recent IE9 press event suggests that they are “all in for HTML5.” So if all of us browser vendors are “all in” for HTML5, what does this mean for web developers? And what’s up with the dirty marketing buzz around tests and demo pages? This panel will expose the areas where we browser vendors cooperate as well as compete, and will push on the painful spots where we seem to disagree. We’ll bring every major browser vendor to the table, and talk about open video on the web (and video codecs), what this all means to Flash, APIs (including contentious ones, like databases), CSS (including once hot areas like fonts) graphics, SVG vs. Canvas, WebGL, Device APIs, and security. This browser wars panel will be less like Inside Baseball, and more about the practical issues confronting web developers today. We’ll poke at the raw spots that browser vendors need to discuss. As always, audience participation will account for a substantial chunk of time.
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