My Recent Video Celebrity Status
To say that I’ve been busy lately is an understatement. I’ve been crazy busy. Things are starting to get exciting with our little interactive campus map project and HubSpot continues to grow at hockey stick clips. The one interesting piece of content I can share is a couple of the recent videos that HubSpot has been putting out in which I’ve made appearances. Foursquare Cops Episode #1: “How do you like this badge, B*TCH?” Last I checked, this first video had over 30,000 views on YouTube and was picked up by mashable and the foursquare blog. Just HubSpot It – Episode 1: Batman Voice This second video hasn’t seen quite the press that the first one has, but it is still really funny. Maybe you notice a little trend in...
Newest Pet Project: Foursquare Badge Guide
I’ve been playing around with foursquare for a few weeks now and have to say that it’s quite addicting little game. What makes it so much fun is because of all the reasons that twitter was initially fun. It’s not overpopulated, yet, and all the people that I follow are mostly in Boston so it’s people that are local. The most addicting part of the tool is the badges that you can acquire by doing certain things and checking into certain locations. Think of these badges like achievement points that you would get while playing games on your Xbox 360. The more badges that you collect the more locations that you have been to and bragging rights that you have. One way that I’m a little anal is that I want to be the best at whatever I...
Book Review: Lords of Finance
I recently read Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. I realize that isn’t my typical reading material, but it was a fascinating read nonetheless. Over the last few years I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t just read for enjoyment. Previously I mostly read fantasy and science fiction novels, but now if there isn’t some sort of educational value that I can get out of the reading then I’m just not interested. This book falls right into that bucket. I first learned about this book on Time Magazine’s Best Business Books of 2009 list. While reading through the short write-ups of each book this one really stood out as something of interest. One thing we all have heard before is that history repeats itself. Well...
Western Caribbean Cruise 2010
The first week of February, Heather and I took a much needed vacation. If we have to live in the COLD weather that is Boston, at least we can get away in the middle of winter for a trip to warmer weather. So we took a trip on the Carnival Liberty cruise ship to the Western Caribbean. We stopped in Cozumel, Grand Cayman and Jamaica. We took plenty of pictures, so here they...
Saints Win the Superbowl and My Story as a Lifetime Saints Fan
I’ve been a Saints fan my whole life. The first time I entered the Superdome I was three and went to a game with my Papa. He had season tickets as he always did. I still remember that first visit and how BIG and amazing the inside of that dome was. I was born in Monroe, LA and we lived in Metairie (a subburb of New Orleans) when my brother was born. By the time I was five we were living in Golden Meadow, LA. Golden Meadow is basically as far down in the bayou as you can go and still be in a town. We had three hurricanes one summer and I remember coming home and seeing the marks on the wall where the water had come up in the house. We left “Loos-e-aner” shortly after. Papa died of diabetes and Uncle Kevin of AIDS when I was nine and ten...
Why Avatar Will Change the Way We Go To the Movies
Earlier this week I went and saw the movie Avatar in 3D. Now 3D movies are nothing new and they seem to go in and out of style faster than tie-dye shirts. I think they first popped up in the 50’s, right? The 3D experience has never been one of those things that have been able to get a foothold for many reasons, but this time around it felt like the technology has finally come of age. I’m not saying that Avatar was the greatest movie of all time. I’ll still continue to give that title to Forrest Gump. It was also an extremely predictable title following all the “required” plot structure that we enjoy in our movies. Now this doesn’t make it a bad movie, it was an absolutely amazing movie. Where I want to be so bold is...
Happy Thanksgiving: Rejoice in the Present
An ancient Chinese proverb goes, “yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future and today is a present.” I think that quote sums up so much in just a few words. There is nothing to be gained in living in the past and even with all the planning in the world we are never sure about the future. Live in the moment. If the advice from the Chinese isn’t enough here is another quote, actually my favorite line from the Bible: This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. – Psalm 118:24 Life simply isn’t worth getting upset or angry about many things as they are out of our control and we can only control one thing, the present. So all this is a little bit of a backward way of asking what are you thankful for...
10 Things I Miss About South Carolina
This past weekend I took a wonderful trip back to South Carolina for some R&R. I’m also about to be a first time uncle as my younger brother is about to have his first child. I thought it was scary enough when my younger brother got married before me, but now he’s about to have a kid. I remember back when I used to drive him to school every day or even further back when we used to play Contra in the yard squirting evil alien bushes with our water guns! Man I’m OLD! So while I was home I started tweeting “Things I miss about South Carolina.” This list built to ten things so just in case you missed out, here was my list. The warm weather, even the humidity. How cheap everything is, especially food and clothes (yes, I went clothes shopping). The sweat tea! ...
Wildside: 80’s Hair Metal Brought Back to Life
Last weekend one of my coworkers at HubSpot’s band was playing out in Waltham. What a great opportunity to support a coworker and listen to some live music! To top it off they are an 80’s hair metal cover band! That’s right lots of AC/DC, GNR, Bon Jovi and the rest of the great tunes of that decade. So if you are in need of a Boston area 80’s rock cover band you should definitely check out Wildside! Don’t believe me check out these short videos I took of the action. The Wildside of Boston Some GNR...
Now is the Future: Streaming Online Video
A while back I wrote about the differences between living in the country and the city. I think it’s time to start expanding on some of those changes living in the city represents. The first change is the availability of FiOS high speed internet. My apartment is wired with the ability to use FiOS internet, which means lightning quick 20Mbps. Needless to say it is much faster than anything I’ve had before! With this extreme speed there are a lot of things I can do with my internet connection. For example, I have the ability to watch high quality streaming video. Hulu, MLB.TV, ESPN360 and YouTube have all been great to watch through the internet connection, but the most enjoyable by far has been Netflix! Netflix has multiple subscriptions but their basic...
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