Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Great American Road Trip – 2008 Hanks Edition
Last year Kaitlin announced out of the blue, “I want to go to South Dakota.” We still don’t know where it came from, although we have a suspicion that an episode of the Wonder Pets or Little Einsteins might have had something to do with it.
A few months ago, an Op-Ed in the New York Times proclaimed Goodbye to the Great American Road Trip. Hogwash. I think too many Americans are loosing touch with our country. And keeping touch with our country and our history sure becomes much more possible and intimate if you just get out there and drive through it instead of fly above it.
So this year, we decided to plan our own
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Middle Teton
At the end of last week, a group of 8 of us headed up to attempt to climb the Grand Teton via the Upper Exum Ridge climbing route.
Over Labor Day, the weather in the Tetons was pretty nasty, and when we arrived a couple of days later, the climbing rangers informed us the conditions on that route were in pretty bad shape: verglas, snow, and ice. They said we’d be better off coming back in the winter and climbing the mountain with a proper snow cover (something that is EXTREMELY difficult and dangerous).
So we adjusted our plans and headed up to camp at the Meadows for 2 nights, and
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The Nike+ Human Race
So over the last couple of months, I’ve started to run a little bit. When I was in Japan, I ran around the city, when I was in D.C., I ran around the city. I wanted a way to track my runs, and I found out about the Nike+ system that includes a foot pod that works with your iPod Nano and iTunes to track your time and distance and upload them to Nike+.
After I uploaded my first run, I found out about the Nike Human Race 10k.
Basically, Nike was putting on the World’s largest running event. In 25 world cities, you could go down an run a 10k race on an official course. But with the Nike+
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Helped Others Achieve Their Childhood Dreams
As I was getting back from Japan on Friday (more on that trip hopefully later this week), my friend Chris emailed to tell me that Randy Pausch had passed away. Back in February, I posted a video about Randy Pausch and his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University that he gave called Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
He gave that lecture after finding out he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Subsequently he took the material in his last lecture plus some new thoughts and wrote a book called The Last Lecture.
His lecture and the book are both great and are definitely worth your time. Here’s a guy that I don’t know
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Back from my galavanting
I am back and finally getting to a post about my 2 weeks as an eCommerce Hippie.
Two solid weeks on the road is tough. It was GOOD to get home. But I had a great time while gone, both personally and also for Doba.
Internet Retailer
So we exhibited at Internet Retailer for the first time. Our booth was made out of cardboard boxes all piled on top of a guy laying in the middle, and it was received very well. People loved it. We had a great show while introducing Doba’s mid-market product (more on that in another post). If you’re involved in eCommerce or eTail, Internet Retailer is a must attend event in my opinion. Next year
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eCommerce Hippie
After this week, I’ll be gone for the next 2 weeks. Being an eCommerce Hippie.
Maybe I should explain. Back in February, I was looking at the schedule of conferences for the next several months, and noticed that Internet Retailer was in Chicago at McCormick Place June 9-11. I attended this conference last year in San Jose and we were in the midst of making plans for Doba to exhibit for the first time since it’s the worlds largest e-retailing show. I then noticed that eBay Live was just over a week later June 19-21, again at McCormick Place in Chicago, and again, we were making plans for Doba to exhibit–for the 5th time at eBay Live.
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Ground Zero
I headed to New York Sunday for a quick trip to the National Retail Federation 97th Annual Convention and Expo, a.k.a. Retail’s Big Show.
I mainly went to cruise the show and get info and meet a lot of the exhibitors.
I ended up with a bit of extra time on Tuesday, so I headed down to the World Trade Center Site. I’ve never been. I went on a walking tour with Tribute NYC. These tours are led by people whose lives were profoundly changed by September 11th. Each tour is unique and connects those who want to hear stories with those who want to share them. One thing that surprised me is that 75% of my tour
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