‘Appy Hour’ During WWDC ‘09

The mobile team at Spark hosted an ‘Appy’ Hour gathering as a great way to mix and mingle with folks in town for WWDC.
We decided to do this at Pat Kuleto’s newish Water Bar. It’s really close to the Sparkpr offices and is swanky, yet classy.
The scene was a buzzy one, with clients EA Mobile [...]

Planning an “Appy Hour” for WWDC

There are few things I enjoy MORE than planning a little party. Especially when I have the chance to mix up the peeps in the room. THEN, it’s all about facilitating a lovely good time. Making sure you have top-notch booze and delicious tasty bits in a dramatically gorgeous setting helps, too.
So that is what [...]

Another CTIA down

It must have been my 10th CTIA.  This time I was there with a lot of other Sparksters and a lot of our clients which made it really busy but very exciting. We even threw a late night “Last Call” drinks party to get everyone together at cheezy Cleopatra’s Barge at Ceasar’s Palace.
These events are [...]

Twitter has Fuct My Blog

Sorry, but it’s true. There is just no real value add in bothering with updating this thing when you have Twitter and amazing photo upload services like Radar.net. Srsly.
Blogs have now become a trip report service.
I am a fervent believer in limiting expressions of many kinds to 140 characters. Our society needs this kind of [...]

Lisa Hempel’s Blog

YAY! Lisa started a blog.
She was the one who encouraged me to do the same over a year ago (Jan 1st 2008 to be exact).
Welcome Lisa! I expect tons of great stuff from you. That pesky Twitter thing can get in the way, tho.
And thanks for inspiring me to add Tweets to my damn blog. [...]

More Bush Street Art

I saw this posted on the entrance to downtown bus terminal in SF.  Naturally, I was moved to chuckle aloud amidst the other silent working stiffs who ride to the city from Oakland.
Have a feeling this one won’t get peeled off very quickly.

Big Obama Day

Some friends took over the public street signage situation early, early this morning in downtown SF. The many Bush St. signs were improved to read OBAMA on the most exciting day in the world. Lots of press covered it, including Laughing Squid (who was totally tipped off and first to post, I believe), SFist and [...]

Xmas Deluxe

 
The  PipToads have really enjoyed a fabulous holiday season and NYE is right around the corner. Not getting on a plane really reduced the street level, and with two 4 day weekends back-to-back, it really felt like we could relax.
It started with a spontaneous lunch with one of my most dear college friends, Bob Lasher. [...]

Whattup with Apple?

Must say, the shocker today was Apple’s blunt withdrawal from the whole Macworld trade show, Jobsnote and all.
This seems fishy. Of course, I found this out reading Twitter mid-day. Strange time for news, BTW.
Ryan Block and Dylan Tweney and Lisa Hempel all commented rather quickly. Then Dan Terdiman was out fishing for commentary from the [...]

Burning Man LLC Loses Harley! NOT

Wow. Just read Harley’s see ya letter to BMORG. Funny how modern the word broke out.
UPDATE- many months later. Harley is still there! I guess she got whatever she wanted. Good for her!
First, Danger Ranger twittered it, then the letter was posted to Tribe and naturally Scott Beale Twittered it, too. And surely all shit [...]