Archive for the 'Lunch 2.0' Category

Triumphs of the Human Spirit

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Blurb is hosting Lunch 2.0 today on Valentine’s Day!
Reading people’s twitter’s I think
Am I the only single person who loves Valentine’s day?
Oh the gifts, flowers, chocolates, singing telegram, and the the restaurant dinner reservation! I love watching the public trauma this day brings to two people in love. Sometimes it is like a romance sped [...]

Geek. Set. Match…

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Just now, Mager messaged me:
“I am excited for Lunch two dot oh—I don’t say “point-oh” anymore.
Flashback.

In the summer of 1992, a friend was reading me a geek purity test he got from USENET.
One of the questions was:
Do you pronounce “*.*” as “star-dot-star?”
Of course, since he was reading it aloud, I heard:
Do you pronounce star-dot-star as [...]

Why I love Lunch 2.0

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I love Lunch 2.0. It’s ironic that something that started as a prank on Web 2.0 could become representative of the very thing it teases: free and open communication and “the lunch as a conversation.”
Even though I missed Lunch 2.0 at Oodle, you have to love this mobile post via Utterz by Chris Heuer catching [...]

Quantifying beauty

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

“You called me earlier?”
D— replies, “Oh yeah, I was at the hardware store. Something there reminded me of a blog entry of yours.”
“Which one?”
“I forgot. So hey, speaking of that. Chris was annoyed about your lame post.”
“Yeah, it was so lame that it was actually a rehash of an earlier blog entry.”
“Oh really? The article [...]

ATM startups

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

At work last week, a co-worker asked me what I thought of Y Combinator and if it was a good idea for starting a company.
I shouted back, “Shit, if you need the money that bad, let’s walk down to WaMu and start three Y Combinators right now.”
For some reason, the other people in the office [...]

Brain error

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

19th century German neurophysiologists successfully map out the brain after a transcontinental flight

Researching my last article was amusing, but doing so made me realize an error in something I said last month.
I didn’t recognize someone I should have because I was jetlagged and hungry. She was non-plussed with my behavior and threatened to “take me [...]

Adobe’s AIR MAX

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Ever since Ed Finkler found out I use twitter a few months ago, he has been bugging me to install Spaz. Then, when Spaz became Spaz.AIR, he did it again.
But so far I’ve been able to resist his sexy advances.
Then one day, Adobe hosted a Lunch 2.0 with an Adobe AIR contest. I suggested to [...]

Too much TechCrunch

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Dave finally found The Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character? quiz.
He told me he got around a 33 out of 43.
I said, “You read too much TechCrunch.”
[Small observations after the jump.]

The double switch

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

*iPhone rings*
“What’s up?”
“You called me earlier.”
“I’m at work now.”
“What’s that noise in the background.”
“I’m watching the latest BubCast. There is something about Spock. They’re hosting a Lunch 2.0 soon and I need some fodder for our announcement. All I found so far was that shit TED posted.”
“TED?”
“You know…from Uncov? I met him last week. Someone [...]

Socializr is looking for kick-ass-coders

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Jonathan Abrams, the junior programmer at Socializr, sent me this. He is looking to double the size at the Socializr World Headquarters!
They have put together #1, #2, and #3, but they need #4, #5 and #6 to complete Socialzr.

Jonathan needs you to complete (his company)
Socializr World Headquarters, SOMA, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina 16-50mm AT-X [...]