NYC Coffee Shops Shutting Down Laptops

9 08 2009

No-More-Free-Wifi-BloggersAwesome – NYC Coffeeshops are kicking out the freeloading Bloggers who hog table space and don’t buy more than one coffee!!! Yay, I know this may affect some well minded users who DON’T abuse the system, but lately I’ve seen some sad “Starbuck campers”…:)

Coffee shops, typically welcoming refuges for lonely bloggers, Web entrepreneurs, and monetarily-challenged job hunters, are turning away laptop users and implementing restrictions on computer time during prime business hours. According to the Wall Street Journal, an increasing number of New York coffee shops are covering their electrical outlets, requiring customers to actually eat something or spend money before they access the Net.

Read the original article here:NYC Coffee Shops Shutting Down Laptops



DK to the Rescue!

19 02 2009

BodyABCs at Elite Retreat
Sitting here at the Elite Retreat, and my back is killing me, so naturally I looked over at DK who owns BodyABCS – San Diego’s #1 Chiropractic Clinic.

My luck was good – DK Brought his adjustment table and his amazing skills to the event.

Literally within 5 minutes of being adjusted I can breath better, sit straighter, and my lower back pain is completely gone.

I wanted to thank DK personally for helping me and for being a great friend!



Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training – My Wifes Fundraising Page

22 06 2008

Help Tyler and many others suffering from rare forms of Leukemia and Lymphoma!
My Wife Erika is training to participate in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training – and will be participating in the Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco on October 19th. She has been working very hard and training almost daily in one form or another, she is taking this challenge very seriously – like everything she does in life ;)

Below is an excerpt from her “Nike Women’s Marathon San Francisco Team in Training – Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Fundraiser Page

All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I am completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers – including our team’s Honored Teammate and my friend Tyler.

Tyler is now 5 years old, in kindergarten and just started playing T-ball – and after meeting him, hearing his story … he quite the fighter and a true inspiration. It’s people like Tyler who are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to find a cure!

How can anyone resist that kids face? Isn’t Tyler absolutely an amazing inspiration to raise money and participate? Honestly, I should be out there running, but work demands have taken precedent…this is one way I can give back directly – help my Wife raise money and awareness through blogging!

Please help and Directly Donate to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team Click Here, or simply Digg Tyler’s Amazing Story of Survival Click Here!



Goatse ad tells you to get a job without colon-climbing/a*s-kissing

9 04 2007

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A German job-hunting site put this ad up in Hamburg, turning a commuter tunnel into a giant, executive colon and advising you that there’s a better way to get a job than crawling up your boss’s ass. [BoingBoing]

Who done it:
Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Directors: Matthias Schmidt, Gunnar Loeser, Heiko Schmidt
Art Director: Stefan Schabenberger
Copywriter: Lars Lindigkeit
Photographer: Eike Schleef
Other additional credits: Sven Horror
Released: December 2006
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Amazing Fiddler Plays Rock Classics with Precision!

17 03 2007


This guy plays ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’ by Yes, and ‘Smooth Criminal’ by Michael Jackson, on a Fiddle/Violin!!!
His name is Alex DePue, and he is friggin AMAZING.



These Pilots have MAD skills!

21 02 2007

Watch as airliners face some of the worst winds that I’ve ever seen. I hope that the planes that I’ve flown on haven’t ever needed to be handled like this. Be glad you can’t see outside very well on landing….you might never fly again if this happened to you.



Are You at Risk for Blue Snarfing or Blue Jacking?

1 01 2007

They may call it “bluejacking” but this video has real life examples of bluesnarfing – taking control of someone’s mobile phone to make premium rate phonecalls over Bluetooth without them even realising.

According to Wikipedia “Blue-Jacking” is:

the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field (i.e. for bluedating or bluechat) to another bluetooth enabled device via the OBEX protocol.

See www.bluejackq.com for info on all things bluetooth.



Gran’s canyon is a net sensation

12 11 2006

Internet Sensation - Grans Canyon (Native American wearing an iPod in the real Grand Canyon?)The Google Earth spotter who discovered the intriguing rock formation that looks like an iPod-wearing native American, turns out to be an Australian granny living in a small Canadian prairie town.

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Global Flight Patterns Paint a Pretty Picture

5 11 2006

This FAA schematic maps flight patterns and displays them via animation. Fascinating data because the, as Aaron Koblin pointed out, the copious flight travel paths end up forming the geographical space of the United States and it’s major cities. In a sense, the itinerant aviational travel defines the geography over the terrain.

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U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave Country

4 11 2006

Personal Data Will Be Cross-Checked With Terrorism Watch Lists; Risk Profiles to Be Stored for Years

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