Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Riding across the continental divide

    After our meeting yesterday we headed further up in the mountains to a town called Leadville, which I leaned is the highest incorporated town in the United States, at 10,200 feet. We drove a few miles out of town to Continental Divide ATV and signed away our lives on a few pages of legal forms.…

  • Altitude sickness

    I flew out to Denver yesterday and then drove up the mountains to Breckenridge, which sits at over 9,600 feet above sea level.  I have never been this high other than traveling inside a pressurize airplane cabin and I didn’t realize how much the altitude would effect me.  All day yesterday I had a killer…

  • Is Google testing a Second Life style virtual world? – Download Squad

    .!. Well of course they are.  I’m not convinced that this ASU beta is necessarily a beta test for it.  However, I am absolutely sure that Google is somewhere working on a virtual world.  Why?  5 reasons: It only makes sense given their well know 20% model for developers.  Surely somewhere across the great expanse…

  • An open virtual world platform?

    This via Boing Boing: one of the tech Crunch 40 conference finalists has setup shop providing a platform for people to create their own virtual worlds.  Meta Place promises to: let you build anything, and play everything, from anywhere. Eventually, anyway. We have to finish it first. I think this was inevitable given the popularity…

  • Crowd sourced sports

    One of the changes that happens every fall is I switch from listening to NPR on the way in and home from work to the local sports call in show.  I guess that could be termed going from the sublime to the ridiculous.  The switch is driven largely by my fascination with football, both college…

  • Extreme football weekend

    It was a weekend of extremes.  I am a huge Kentucky Wildcat fan for both football and basketball and on Saturday they had their big in state rivalry game against Louisville.  They were actually ahead in the series with 10 wins and 9 losses over the last 19 years, but you wouldn’t know it if…

  • Facebook update – potential PLM play?

    I haven’t been doing a lot with my facebook account for a while.  However I have been thinking about Facebook as a ‘platform’ (note the lower case p) for PLM applications.  The underlying social networks that Facebook is built on would be a killer way to gather requirements for new products aimed at specific niches,…

  • Blog rhythm

    For anyone keeping score, you may have noticed that my posts here seem to go in spurts.  I have a pretty constant stream of links on my del.icio.us and google reader sidebar, but I only seem to get the energy to post something on my blog every 10-14 days.  And once I start posting, it’s…

  • Death by Caffeine

    Might want to check out this out before you swing by starbuck’s the next time.  I think I’ll have to find a new favorite there…the redeye’s I drink would probably kill me in less than 10. Death by Caffeine