Disclaimer: I consider Justin Shaffer a friend, and have gone to Yankees games with him, but we bought our own food.
Justin Shaffer, former geek in residence at MLB Advanced Media, the digital arm of the nation’s pastime, is on the cusp of tossing a new entrant into the social media game with “Hot Potato”. [...]
Mergers and acquisitions aren’t reserved for failing banks or technology companies: Turns out there’s excitement and kvelling in the Jewish themed consumer goods arena.
Jewish Fashion Conspiracy had its run and their products sidled over to PopJudaica. In addition to “Jews for Jeter” t-shirts and matzah-print toilet seats, they put six-points of light into a [...]
My “Jews For Jeter” t-shirt provided comfort, good luck and naches during the Yankees’ championship run. But if you’re a Mets fan, the off-season came early, without celebration or pre-holiday post-season splurges at the local Dicks or Sports Authority.
Take heart, fans of the injury-prone but get’em next year Amazins: New Rome Clothing has [...]
I am appealing to the ‘net for help in solving what has become a family mystery. Cross-posted to my sports blog as well, because I’m looking for any reasonable clues. And yes, I got the idea from Clay Shirkey’s Here Comes Everybody. Not as exciting as a misappropriated cell phone, but perhaps of [...]
It took all of 24 hours for me to become a fan of freecycle. I have been moving a four by five foot plate glass mirror around my basement, cautiously leaning, bracing and sliding it so that it doesn’t give me personal experience in massive sharding. Now that the bathroom originally intended to [...]
I have a bad thing about shoes: I hate them. Partly this is because my feet are slightly different sizes, partly because my right foot has a deformed fourth metatarsal (ie, my right foot’s topography looks like that of the San Fernando Valley in relief), partly because my feet are so wide that it’s [...]
Got this incredibly slick stick from Meredith Gran, author of the Octopus Pie online comic. She asked readers to send her hand-written notes so she could see others’ scribbles; what we got back was a personalized note backing mass-produced iconography. “Team Asthma” is how my wife has referred to my hockey endeavors [...]
Bubba and I went to the Devils-Rangers game on Sunday, our first game together since January. Aside from the obvious – Devils beat the Rangers for the first and only time this season, Devils snap a 7-game losing streak against the Blue Meanies, Elias wins the game in fine style – there [...]
Sometimes we become so accustomed to the way in which we do something, or the tools used in accomplishing the task, that we forget there are continuous improvements available. Current cell phones are significantly better than the 24-month old flip phone with the marred case and cloudy camera lens that I tote around; [...]
Bubba and I modeled some of the international flavors of Patrik Elias at the Kings-Devils game on Saturday night. Bubba has the 2002 Czech Olympic jersey, with a completely English surname (missing the Czech accents that add color, intonation and printing costs). I’m wearing a somewhat official Metallurg Magnitogorsk Russian Super [...]
