Taken at Main Street Wings

@gvtmtom I do. I love Football. #nygiantsfan I am also obsessed with TCM. BRilliant films and I love Robert Osborne. But, I have decided if the NFL or Turner or whoever can't see the future or think they can drag their feet and I will continue to waste $100 a month on cable/satellite like an addict. They are sorely mistaken. We're gone. They can figure it out or the heck with them. I'll live without it.

Frankly TCM could release an ipad app that is nothing more than simulcasting the cable channel and I would plunk down $40 without blinking for it. Or pay $5 or $10 a month for it. 

So, Roku + AppleTV replace Cable.

Done.

#canyoutelliamfiredupoverthis

Photographer friends. Are these tones natural or PS? Shot with Hasselblad. (Medium format?) I find the color/tone amazing! Don't click if artsy breasts freak you out. http://bit.ly/akC8jS (Flickr)

I didn't have a war. So I've turned to old D&D campaign's for war stories to tell V. 

It's been two months since I got the iPad and I am impressed with how much it has crept into my work routine. It's use as a consumption product was immediately apparent but I really didn't think it would be useful for actual work. I don't mean for email and IM's, which I do use it for, but actual design work. I find I am using it for mapping, concept and wire framing almost exclusively. I find it easier to work through ideas on it without the constraint of sitting at a machine. Even a laptop. It's also very easy to take to a meeting and show notes, mind maps or wireframes to a client or coworker. For maps I like iThoughtsHD best. I use mindnode and Poppler as well but I find iThoughts to be the most useful. Wireframing, a concept I have struggled with and gone through many different programs, I am using iMockups. I love this thing. Very easy to use quickly and export when needed. For notes I have used just about everything available on the iPad. Nothing beats Evernote for me. It's easy to use, as detailed as I need it to be and syncs with every other device I use. Evernote is a fantastic tool that you really need to be using. Things on the iPad is also an indispensable tool these days along with the laptop version.
So, while the iPad has not been used at all for development on the front end of building websites, - planning, brainstorming and wireframing - it has become another important tool, hand-in-hand with the MacBook Pro.

So, do you have an iPad? If so are you using it in your work? If so, what are you using?

/jM

So when @esme1111 and I went to pick out our wedding rings. The store on the Loudon Street mall had a gun shop in the back. I think it was more of a fix-it shop, which would kind of make sense. I got to jawin' with the man back there and he had some impressive old weapons along with the usual stuff. So we walked out with our rings and a cleaning kit for a .357. Been one of our favorite stories since. It set the stage for our life together so far. Based on many wonderful things, but above all of them is our intense fondness for goofiness. I need to find that ring.

If I leave you with nothing else today my darlings, please do not promise things to ppl if you have neither the self discipline nor the respect for them to actually follow it with action. Especially if they rely on you. I think we can all agree on that?
#notasermonjustathought

I'm wrapping up my second run through Seth Godin's "Tribes". I feel like inspired but also like I need to go to confession. He nailed me in a few places, namely fear. Fear and I have had a Lazarus Anti-Lazarus struggle for a while. I resisted this book at first. Seemed a bit "self help" to me. Guess I was being more fundamentalist and less curious. Plus it was recommended by almost everyone and I have a habit of resisting the thing that the crowd endorses. Thinking perhaps I confused crowd with tribe now? I don't know, but enough people that I either trust recommended it so I decided to give it a shot after I read "Rework" and enjoyed it. I can't tell you if the book changed my life and it sounds ridiculous to say, but I hope it did. I hope I take what I have taken from this book and apply it to my life and just get on with it! The thing is, this IS a self help book. But it is truly a self help book. There is no answer in this book, unless you find it yourself. This book has no 'roadmap to success' that will fit everyone and comes guaranteed with little risk. It's a very smart man who has thought through the state of the modern world and has some opinions that many including me think, for the most part, are truths. He's a leader who wants to encourage more leaders and better followers. I'm not just a fawning blind fan now after one book. Some parts I'm not 100% with him. I'm not saying this is a new bible that we should all follow blindly. In fact that would be the exact opposite of what this book is about. (But how many times has that happened to a leader?) I'm just saying the book spoke to me on both a personal and professional level and gave great clarity to my own professional situation and it may do the same for you. I don't know if I'm a leader that Seth is looking for. I don't know if I have it in me yet. I hope so and this is what I am exploring now. What I do know is that either way, I am ready to follow and work with something I do believe in. Give it a shot, it's a good read.