Playing in the snow with the ‘Cabin Fever’ Kids during #NWAIceStorm…
This is my 3 Year Old with No Nap. Parenting is Pure Joy and the Hardest Job on the Planet.
Through my work @CollectiveBias and being an admitted social butterfly, I get to chat with amazing people…often over some food item. I love eating out, often it is the food that draws me, but mostly I love the taste of food not bought, prepared and cleaned up by me.
I will start a series of “Heard Over…” where I will share some ideas that were brought to me and the food items…as a side review.
So…
Heard Over…Thai
Taste of Thai Restaurant, Rogers, AR
Me and the gentlemen (Dale of Doc4Design and Kelly Miller of Millcreek Software) are regulars and I believe we all ordered our favorites. Though I don’t like Pad Thai, they both had it and get it often. The Tom Ka Gai soup (coconut soup) is excellent and tastes even better the second day if you bring some home. My personal favorite at almost any Thai place is the Panang Curry, I eat it with chicken. It is the dish that I use to measure and evaluate a Thai place…How do you measure a Thai restaurant?
Topics of the Day: iPhone Twitter Clients, Location-based Apps & Privacy
So, here’s a snippet of the conversation: “What is your favorite iPhone Twitter client?”, Kelly (@kellygmiller) asks me…knowing I’m still new (4 month owner), but completely addicted and surgically attached to mine…
“Actually”, I say, “I don’t tweet from my phone very much. If I am away from my computer, I likely am Whrrl-ing (partner of Collective Bias) and publishing my stories to Twitter and Facebook. I tweet from my TweetDeck application.”
I explained my columns, and almost sheepishly the gentlemen asked “What group am I in?”. I had to think for a minute, as they are both Tweeters, but not all day, every day, like many of the CB community.
As a follow up to my Whrrl reference, Dale (@Doc4Design) brought up a valid question about how location-based tools (such as Whrrl) feel as though you are being tracked…It was the 2nd time that same day the issue was raised and the privacy issues will be discussed in a follow up post…going to elaborate on the excellent privacy model the @Whrrl team has implemented in another post…but for now you can educate yourself here.
I was fairly sure that were both in my “Tweeps” columns and indeed after a review…they both are there!
Today I travel to see my family in Canada for the U.S Thanksgiving and actually have a moment to collect my thoughts.
Many of my new colleagues are airport warriors, though rare enough for me that I delight in the solitude while being surrounded by such watchable people. I am treasuring this moment and aspire to be carving out (Thanksgiving pun for y’all) regular time to each week to share…you can hold me to this.
I am in deep admiration for those who blog nearly daily…how do you do it? Is it a gift, discipline, necessity? …oops, I digress.
Admittedly, I am not be the wild techno genius building some iPhone space station thingy… though have serious skills in listening to clients wishes and getting inspired to find a technical solution for them. I am thrilled to be surrounded by some web/tech/design wizards all sitting 5 feet away. You inspire and challenge me. Jay (@JayThornton000), Collin (@CCondray) and Brad (@BradLawless).
I remain delighted to have joined the Collective Bias (@CollectiveBias) team as the Director of Technology though I have to admit, my brain has had its butt kicked! Being in the den of innovation (called Ninja Storage by my hard core team mate Jay @JayThornton000)…the area where 4 of us hassle each other, brainstorm, whiteboard and beg for more caffeine is like being in the Amazing race for the brain and I rush in each morning for more.
I knew when I met John Andrews @Katadhin and Amy Callahan @AmyfromMars that something exciting was underfoot…but after being hired to deliver a contest site for our Genesis Today client, I felt the fire of ideas burning and when they lured me with the challenge of making their ideas clickable I fell in love…
Yes, that is what I do… I Make it Clickable!