Tonight at 6 PM I will be at Starbucks coffee meeting with other entrepreneurs as part of the The Boise Entrepreneur Meetup Group. If you are interested then stop by the Starbucks at 1100 Broadway Ave. in Boise. The meetup used to conflict with Kickstand, so I moved it to Wednessday. If you have then [...]

Alice of Wonderland has a rough transcription of Raph Koster’s Keynote from Game Developers’ Conference 2005. Raph wrote the book “A Theory of Fun“. The speech is a really interesting read, even if you are not into gaming. In fact it might be more interesting for the non-gamer. A visit to Raph Koster’s Website turns [...]

One thing that really impressed me about Super Size Me is the aftermath. McDonald’s stopped offering Super Size options on their meals, introduced their premium salads, and their healthy meals all immediately after the movie came out. McDonald’s claims the events are unrelated to the movie. Now I know the movie involved a lot more [...]

Thanks to Matthew Oliphant for pointing out a new smoke detector. He found it out on Gizmodo. What makes this smoke detector different is it uses a parent’s voice instead of a traditional beeper. Just the other night Dawn and I had a candle burn down and set off the smoke detectors in our house [...]

Dawn and I just finished watching the documentary movie Super Size Me. That is a truly scary movie. It is all about this relatively healthy guy (Morgan Spurlock) eating nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days. He had 3 doctors, a nutritionist and physical therapist follow his work, as well as his vegan gourmet girlfriend. At [...]