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What a difference a year makes! (Greyson is now 650 days...

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:30:09 -0500

What a difference a year makes!

(Greyson is now 650 days old… aka 21 months… aka nearly 2 years old)

He’s on the move… Oh boy…

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:07:35 -0500

He’s on the move… Oh boy…

Sleepin on Flickr.My dad is rad

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:58:03 -0500

Sleepin on Flickr.

My dad is rad

Epic.

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:04:49 -0500

Epic.

Perpetual Ocean

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:13:11 -0500

Perpetual Ocean

Video

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:02:56 -0600

barackobama: Chart of the day. I really need to read...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:53:04 -0600

barackobama:

Chart of the day.

I really need to read What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America to understand how the poor of the south still vote conservative.

Greyson says Goodnight!

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:02:22 -0600

Greyson says Goodnight!

Ride of Passage

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:41:06 -0600

Ride of Passage

R.I.P. Etta James … your beautiful voice led Becca and I...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:07:38 -0600

R.I.P. Etta James … your beautiful voice led Becca and I onto the dance floor for our first song…

Photo

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:03:08 -0600

Side note: One sticky situation people often ignore when...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:18:11 -0600

Side note:

One sticky situation people often ignore when talking about “tightening up the borders” and deporting illegal immigrants back to their homelands… is the fact that while it’s certainly debatable (which is why everyone is talking about it), it’s not that easy.

Often times, there are many jobs in which people won’t do the work for the money… no matter the situation… Farm hands are critical to the success and output that is responsible for most of our diet, yet we’re willing to literally “bite the hands that feed us”…

It’s a difficult situation… for sure.

A round of applause for the new kid on the...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:03:00 -0600

A round of applause for the new kid on the block…

Greyson James

1/7/2012 at 11:31am

7lbs 2oz 19.25" long

Iowa Nice

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:08:57 -0600

Iowa Nice

From 2011 to 2012

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:07:31 -0600

The last few years have been a roller coaster…

2011 was a blur… mostly focused on one thing.

Oh, and I joined a new startup, Simpli.fi.

Outside of that, I spent a lot of time with great friends, met a lot of new ones, built some stuff with my Makerbot, built some legos, moved, saw my little brother get married, started reading the A Song of Fire and Ice series, continued my relationship with my Little, and finished paying off my car.

And what’s in store for 2012?

Well… our baby’s due date was December 29th… but that day has past and it looks like we’ll be ringing in the new year with a new child! As of right now, that’s all I can focus on.

Resolutions for 2012?

Uhh being a good father? Making sure our child (check hazbaby.com) arrives healthy and stays healthy…

Keep focus on my career and hobbies as well. I have to stay grounded, but of course my priorities will shift and reorganize.

I plan on staying with startups (it’s addicting), keeping active in the startup community, learning more about languages and hardware, build more legos, read more books, and plan more interesting moments for my family…

Boring post, I know, but seriously… all I have been thinking about lately is scaling startups and having this baby!

Week 40 on Flickr. On our Due Date! Keep up to date via:...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:19:00 -0600

Week 40 on Flickr.

On our Due Date!

Keep up to date via: http://www.hazbaby.com

Grace Hopper on Letterman

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:30:41 -0600

Grace Hopper on Letterman

The Hobbit Not sure if Peter Jackson did the casting, but...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:19:14 -0600

The Hobbit

Not sure if Peter Jackson did the casting, but Martin Freeman is probably the most perfect choice for Bilbo Baggins after the original hobbits were cast for LOTR.

Content Sharing Services

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:56:43 -0600

I have been thinking a lot lately about content sharing services…

I have a picture I want to post with a short quip…

I pop out my iPhone, because it’s an awesome way to get engagement fast.

I open up Path 2.0, upload pic and add text. I click the “Share via Facebook” and “Share via Twitter” to ensure it broadcasts to my favorite content sharing services.

Now that’s all fine and dandy, it works for almost any content sharing app. Twitter and Facebook are large platforms with millions of integrations.

The problem is the picture. I get content sharing fatigue, because I also want Instagram, Flickr, and to have those pictures as well. Granted, most people I’m following or are following me on those services are all interconnected. My friends follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Path (some), Instagram (more), and Flickr… but there’s something that feels left out.

Maybe, it’s up to Flickr and Instagram to open up for integration. Clearly it works for Path -> Twitter + Facebook … but why not the others? Instagram is huge, Flickr is huge.

The point: I think that there’s a careful balance between walled gardens and open APIs that allow for engagement with your service. For example, I can post to Facebook from Path, but Path obviously wants to keep users engaged with itself, instead of going to Facebook. And Path doesn’t want to be just an interface… or maybe it does?

I would wager that there will be a solution to this soon. Maybe in the form of a content aggregation spec… so that you can place content wherever and your services just show it like it’s part of the platform. We see this in one direction with Facebook… we see this in 1.5* directions with Twitter… we’ll see this become even larger eventually. Otherwise we’ll get “Content Sharing Fatigue”…

* Twitter hosts most content inline within it’s apps (web and mobile) and let’s it’s content out via clients, but doesn’t allow posting to other services within itself.

In reference to this:...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:09:27 -0600

In reference to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0PAJNntoRgA

Way to go Rick Perry!