Lyrical

(September 29, 2013)

I was out at a show on Friday, and had a few beers, and then suddenly I was home, and I was listening to Xiu Xiu’s version of Fast Car, and I really had to know what the lyrics were. And before you know it, I had won around fifteen new iPhone 5s from various … Continue reading Lyrical

Crowdsourcing Is Dead

(September 22, 2013)

For a brief, shiny moment back around 2007, it seemed like crowdsourcing would really take off.  However, by now it’s become pretty obvious that we just saw an enormous influx of Can Do people as (pretty much) the entire Western world got reliable Interweb connections at all at once. Then most of these people grew … Continue reading Crowdsourcing Is Dead

Mercantilism

(September 14, 2013)

The September t-shirts were finally ready yesterday, so I picked them up today, along with stamps, envelopes, rum, ginger beer, DVDs and other things necessary for packing stuff. The number of shirts wasn’t enormous (just 30 or 40 or something), so carrying them up the stairs was no problem. The Norwegian postage system changed since … Continue reading Mercantilism