I am not an “open source evangelist”. My knowledge of code does not extend beyond basic HTML. I have had offers to teach me, but I am a marketer and my career advances when I learn more about marketing, not about code. I also dabble in volunteering. Generally, I’ve been too career driven to volunteer, [...]

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You had the action figures. You watched the cartoons. You even had (or even still have?) superhero underoos. When you were four, being a superhero was the obvious career path for you. You never understood why adults like your parents somehow chose NOT to be superheroes. Sigh. After a not-too-successful stint as the invisible man [...]

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*Which one of these is not true? The Boom Boom Room is: a.) The burlesque-style back room at GeekAustin’s newest venue, Union Park. b.) The place where I hugged a person in a giant Elmo costume and ran into the Big Bad Wolf. c.) Full of pictures of scantily clad women. d.) Always crowded, but [...]

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Tonight I went to Jay B. Sauceda’s benefit for osteosarcoma research. I’ve already touched on the story of how I ran into Jay B. by reading Cesar Torres’s Tweet about his awesome avatar picture. What I have not told you is how I ran into Willie Tichenor. Willie was Jay B.’s friend from the Iron [...]

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People who say that alternate sources of fuel are 10-15 years away crack me up. As someone who worked at BMW for two years who was planning on running an online dealership, I knew what the auto industry had in the pipeline. BMW touted its hydrogen hybrid when I worked there back in 2004 and [...]

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I’ve been on guard as of late. Since watching my sister undergo both brutal treatment for leukemia and a stem cell transplant, I look for any opportunity to lay my vengeance on cancer. Cancer sucks. No one should have to deal with that disease. Fortunately, some other people also think cancer sucks, so it looks [...]

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I love to travel. That’s why I was very happy to find HappyHotelier running through Guy Kawasaki’s Twitterstream. His real name is Guido van den Elshout and he runs a small hotel in the Hague, Netherlands. The Netherlands seems like a great place to visit and I thought both the look and the language of [...]

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I saw this Tweet from Tara Hunt earlier and was disturbed by it: Uh oh. GreenDevCamp in trouble again. Needed: sponsors and wifi. Meraki contacted, but sponsors out there? http://moourl.com/i51tq about 11 hours ago from twitterrific Tara Hunt, a.k.a. Miss Rogue, is one of the few Twitterati I actually follow. It’s not that I don’t [...]

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Someone: “Calacanis is like a fungus. He grows on you.” 04:00 PM March 29, 2008 from web @tangofoxtrot: “we’re creating the 10 commandments on the web. 2 column tablet. Only displays in Moseszilla” 09:23 PM March 22, 2008 from web @guykawasaki: “Sperm in your hair isn’t terrorism?” 06:07 PM March 17, 2008 from web The [...]

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