OK, so it doesn’t appear to draw as much traffic as when one of my posts was dugg, but apparently my post about the stupidity of car alarms amused the folks over at Inc. Magazine and Inc.com. Thanks for the props, Inc!
July 16, 2008
Posts By / Ryan McIntyre
July 15, 2008
Sharp’s Dull Service / My eCommerce Nightmare
Warning: long rant ahead, but I just concluded the worst and most protracted customer-service nightmare of my life and feel compelled to share it, since my experience was just preposterous. The subtitle of this post should be why you shouldn’t buy a big-screen TV online, even though it is so much cheaper than at your…
July 14, 2008
Culturegraph and Steely Dan
I’m a big fan of the site Culturegraph. Basically, readers submit pop-culture influenced gags that take graphic form — usually charts and graphs of some description. I’m also a fan because they’ve accepted a couple of my submissions (one Sting-related and one Michael McDonald related). The one that wasn’t accepted is probably only funny to…
July 9, 2008
Guitar Face!
There’s nothing like watching a musician’s face when they are deeply engaged playing their music. When Ian Rogers saw Soul Patch play a few weeks ago, he mentioned that I had a lot of good GuitarFace™ moments, which inspired me to look through the photos from that gig and previous gigs, which indeed confirmed that…
July 7, 2008
Topspin, Baby!
I’ve recently joined the board of an incredibly cool company called Topspin Media, via Foundry Group’s Series B investment in the company. This is an investment literally a decade in the making. I met Topspin’s co-founder, seed investor and Chairman Peter Gotcher about ten years ago while he was a venture partner at Redpoint, via…
July 6, 2008
The Declaration of Independence
I’ve been on a bit of a history kick lately and recently read great biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton, men whose actions in large part helped birth our country and define the structure of our government and free-market economy. As our nation struggles today with the consequences of the last eight years under…
June 11, 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…
June 10, 2008
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…
June 5, 2008
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…
June 5, 2008
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…