Archives / June, 2008

The Devil Made Me Do It

I’ve played guitar for about 25 years now, and have been relatively restrained about adding new axes to my arsenal, until the last year or so, when three great new guitars found their way into my collection. Last year after we finished fund-raising, my partners gave me a Fender VG Stratocaster. And after NAMM this…

July 11th, Really?

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the 3G iPhone for some time, and was mostly pleased with the new features, but the July 11th release date was a bit of a drag, as I’m no good with the whole delayed-gratification thing. Besides the higher data speeds and third party apps, the feature I’m most excited about is…

Lego Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube

From Slashdot: a dude named Thomas Rocicki has just proven that 23 moves is sufficient to solve an arbitrary Rubik’s cube configuration, not including the impossible configurations created by dismantling and re-assembling the cube, the only method by which I was able to reliably solve it. Rocicki had previously established it could be done in…

Smith & Tinker

I’ve recently joined the board of a Seattle-based startup called Smith & Tinker. The picture here is one I took of the cool little figurine that co-founder and CEO Jordan Weisman gave me after our investment in S&T closed. I cannot confirm or deny what (if anything) it has to do with what the company…