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Star Wars summarized

The plot of Star Wars, as summarized by a three year old.

Voting is mystical

“Voting is mystical, it’s a mystical act.”
Carl Bernstein, CNN, 02/19/08, in regards to primary elections and why polls are not authoritative.

My glasses

I am often asked about my glasses. Here’s the story…
I flew back to Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2004 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Studio X, the Internet company I co-founded back in April 1994. A friend of mine and one of the members of that endeavor, Michael Herrick, showed up to the party […]

Qwest Junk Mail

Stop the madness, Qwest! Four pieces of postal junk mail on the same day?!

Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers: What I watched tonight with the family - a classic.

Startupalooza

Starupalooza is an interactive forum for the Portland tech startup community. It’s where you can find out about cool tech startups, learn from successful tech entrepreneurs and meet local tech-business people. The event features discussions, presentations, demonstrations and networking allowing participants to share, learn and connect in a candid, no-BS environment.

Raven at iPhoneDevCamp

Taken at iPhoneDevCamp, July 2007, by Adam Tow.

A favorite in the Collins-Zachary household

Starbucks: an observation

An interesting Starbucks tidbit from a vegan’s perspective…Female baristas almost always wipe the milk steamer with a rag before steaming soy milk. Male baristas, on the other hand, only do this about half of the time I’ve observed. The stats are fairly similar for washing out the metallic milk pitchers before switching from milk to […]

More than Twitter

The great thing about Chyrp is that I can go past 140 characters. I am treating this site a bit more like Twitter than I am like a full-length blog, so I don’t expect to see long posts here.As soon as the RSS module is released for Chyrp, I will be aggregating Twitter and Flickr […]