Wine is terroir

I had the pleasure of meeting Arnold Waldstein Tuesday evening at his local watering hole, Terroir. Nice place; don’t let the current iteration of their website throw you off. It was the first time I’d seen a bar have Riesling on tap, but I ended up having some Greek red, the name of [...]

Iconography
Below is a proposed icon for the Portfolio Armor iPhone app. My design team ignored my suggested colors (silver, light blue, and gold, to stand out against the iTunes background) Update: my project manager informed me today that they tried my color scheme and found it didn’t look right. Let me know what you [...]

Stranded in Cleveland
Due to a few mishaps, I’m writing this from the airport in Cleveland, where I had a layover and am stranded until the next flight back to Newark, which won’t leave until after 6am. Now that the airport has emptied out, the WiFi is working faster, so I’ve been able to get a [...]

Thanks again to those of you who voted for Portfolio Armor for iPhone in the StreetApps Challenge. I mentioned yesterday I’d put up a 1990s flashback post, travel permitting. Thanks to in-flight WiFi, travel permits, so here it is. By the way, if you haven’t voted yet, you can do so by clicking here. Much [...]

When I was in grade school, occasionally the cafeteria would have make-your-own peanut butter & jelly day. “Crowd sourcing” wasn’t a gleam in any neoligist’s1 eye back then, but it followed a similar general idea: provide the basic components, and let the consumers put them together.
I thought I’d try something along those lines here. [...]

Watch 0:50 to 1:00 of this,

And then watch 1:24 to 1:34 of this,

For the last couple of months, we’ve been dieting and exercising. I’ve got a couple of presentations to make in mid-August, so I figured I’d try to fit into one of my suits by then. For the diet, we’ve been doing Atkins, as I’ve had some success with that in the past. It’s been a [...]