Mar
27
2009
Mar
21
2009
Tools for tools in the Web 2.0 era
It’s awesome that there’s things like ping.fm to notify all my friends on all my networks what I’m doing, or things like FriendFeed to act as a reverse of that, like Natuba did back before it re-invented itself to absolutely blow.
But I want a ping.fm for location based things, like Dodgeball (rip), brightkite, and foursquare. Something that, tied into Google Latitude, lets me check in to all those things without having to sit with my BlackBerry for a minute or two at each new venue.
I’ve got my flying car, where’s my location based multi-network service?!?
Mar
18
2009
Dew the Horde!
Yesterday Blizzard announced two new flavors of Mountain Dew. Yes, Blizzard. World of Warcraft themed Mountain Dew! Halo Game Fuel was such a success, so the world’s largest game is giving it a go. Even though I quit drinking it over a year ago, I know I’m going to end up giving these two new flavors a try. Yes, even Alliance Blue.
Pictures of both bottles under the cut.
Mar
8
2009
Miracle fruit awesomeness
Just tried Miracle fruit tabs from ThinkGeek. Holy cow are they amazing. Fantastic. Need to do them again, with people. Need people to come over, with a variety of things to try. LFG 4 flavor party, PST.
| Food | Taste |
|---|---|
| Lime | The most amazingly sweet and flavorful limeade you could ever imagine. Yeah, I love limes. My favorite fruit after mangoes. But holy cow, it was like a sweet lime explosion in my mouth. |
| Lemon | Similar to limes. Amazing sweet awesome lemonade. Next time I’ll have to mix the two and produce an all-natural Sprite. |
| Soda bread | Tasted like… plain old soda bread. Oh well. I mostly purchased it to soak up all the acid I knew I was going to be eating, to avoid the upset stomach that many had reported from ODing on citrus while under miraculin’s effects. |
| Gherkins | Nothing different. Oh well. |
| Guinness | Imagine a root beer float, made of awesome. I still maintain that Guinness floats taste awesome (I know that’s an insulting sacrilege to some people), but this tasted like that – despite the lack of ice cream. Wow. |
| Irish whiskey | Pretty flavorful, took a little of the earthiness off from it, leaving some of the more subtle flavorings. |
| Ciclón | I’m normally a sucker for Ciclón, but it tasted even sweeter and smooth. The lime and agave were really heavily accented. Next time I need to try pure rum and pure tequila to see how they’re accented by the miraculin. |
| Orange | Woah. Sweet orange juice. Orange juice with sugar. Sliced that puppy up and devoured it in seconds. Not as amazingly different as lime and lemon, being a naturally sweet fruit already, but still an even more intense flavor than usual. |
| Grapefruit | This was the main event. People had told me that grapefruit would be the most amazing ambrosia with miraculin, and they weren’t kidding. Fantastic. Blissful. All I could ever want from a fruit, and then some. I was expecting grapefruit with sugar, but it was so much more than that. A sweet rich fruity explosion of tangy nirvana. Woah. |
I’ve got plenty of ideas for the next tasting, and for a future flavor tasting party. Well worth trying, if you ever get a chance.
Mar
5
2009
Web 2.0 lunch menu faxing
agent179 is a regular at Drip, a local coffee establishment in downtown Madison. He’s friendly with all of the employees there, and has even gotten windexcowboy to make it part of his morning ritual as well.
He’s even Facebook friends with the employees there, which leads to a modern web 2.0 version of the daily specials from the local restaurant being faxed to your office (I’m amazed a lot of places still do that). They just wrote the daily specials on his wall a few minutes ago.
Seb Jones wrote at 11:13am
todays soup is mediterranean chicken the sandwhiches are a roast pork with cabbage slaw on foccacia, we alsohave an olive cream cheese cucumber red pepper fennel and sunflower seeds on whole grain
Now that’s service. If only local Hoboken eateries offered the same. Now that Rue de Jardin is no more, petemagyar and I are reduced to coffee from Empire, which doesn’t even offer the best crepes in town, let alone fantastic goat cheese sandwiches which make you believe in a supreme being.
I approve of this sustainable “green” lunch menu dissemination. Twitter, Facebook wall write, Dodgeball shout-out, whatever.