Ellie Rountree recently intereviewed Scott Beal from Laughing for Rocketboom Tech outside the The Butler & the Chef Bistro in San Francisco’s South Park.
Rocketboom Tech Interview With Laughing Squid
The White Crayon Paradox
Finding Meaning in the Most Overlooked Crayon OK, now that I have a child, I remember wondering about things I haven't thought about in a long time. My son Tyler likes to draw, well, scribble for now, and the other day he was drawing, and he pulled out the white crayon. He scribbled with the white crayon and looked perplexed why it wasn't producing color on the paper. This leads me to ask: why do...
Tesla Coil
Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On his birthday last week, Google dedicated a logo to honor his contribution to the world of science. In reading through the article, I liked a quote from Tesla about Thomas Edison: "If Edison had to find a needle in a...
Winning, Losing, & Being Content
Lessons in maintaining hunger and drive from Billy Mays, Sylvester Stallone, and the world's top performers The relentless pursuit of excellence means never losing your hunger for success Last week, I was watching Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel because they were playing every episode in the series, which allowed me a chance to watch all of them (filled up my DVR). It is a great show and I really like Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan,...
Brentwood Cornfest 2009 Fireworks
Beginning of the Show Grand Finale Gary and Charisse invited us to join them at the Brentwood Cornfest last night in Brentwood, CA. Charisse works for the High School so she was able to get us into where they shoot off the fireworks from the school football field. Being so close to the fireworks was great because they were really LOUD (the first few were really loud) and really BRIGHT. To give you an idea...
Our Awesome Web Team at Safeway
Laura is in town this week so "we" (OK I) wanted to take a group picture so here you are. The first one is funny because it looks like we work for JCPenny. We are missing Joel and Jill but some day we'll get you to California again.