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Merry Christmas!
ByDerekMerry Christmas to all our friends and family! Earlier this year, we went to Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, MI, a place I had been to several times over the years when visiting family in Michigan. I’ve had one of their signature handpainted ornaments for years, so we got one for Amanda and Ariella to…
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Select Comfort learns the real power of Twitter
ByDerekIf you didn’t read yesterday’s entry, start there. Select Comfort’s corporate headquarters is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Above is the traffic map for my site today. The darker the green, the higher the percentage of traffic originated there. Needless to say, my Twitter campaign to better inform potential Select Comfort customers was being heard in…
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- Derek | Geek | Net Neutrality | Politics
Democrat victory likely a win for net neutrality, possibly poker
ByDerekEven conservatives like myself can find some solace in the Democrat’s recent rise to power. An article on TheStreet.com discusses the likelihood that the tipping of the political scales will likely mean that net neutrality will be preserved. The House of Representatives passed a version of the bill that was stripped of net neutrality language…
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Bowled over
ByDerekI really didn’t even intend to try and get Ice Bowl tickets when I woke up this morning. I figured with 75,000 seats the game wouldn’t sell out for quite some time. Then I said to myself, well, if I’m planning on going, I may as well try and get the best tickets possible. So…
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Don’t look back
ByDerekI was cruising around Club3G the other day, posting up for sale some spare parts I still had laying around from the Eclipse, and I ran across a thread with one of the old Eclipse commercials in it: The commercial was a nice bit of near-term nostalgia, but several of the people in the thread…
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The Jack-O-Lanterns
ByDerekSo we just carved our pumpkins and I grabbed the camera to play around a little bit. Got some cool results! Here they are on their own… Here I added a little light painting with an LED flashlight gelled with a full CTO… Strobe behind the pumpkin, with my Sto-Fen Omni Bounce makes a Spooky…
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