Yesterday was the Day of Giving for The Ohio State University. As a long-time Columbus resident, former student and member of the Alumni Association, where my wife also worked for a number of years, I might have gotten a few emails about it. Looking over the options I decided to make a donation to a…
I’m not going to get into whether the 6 game suspension was fair or not, or the criminal investigation that was dropped, etc. At least not here. I do, however, want to thank Deadspin for being one of the only sports sites to not just repeat verbatim what the NFL had to say about the…
? Friday night we made the drive up to Portland to catch The Replacements at the Crystal Ballroom. The show was great, and typical for a Replacements show even after all these years. They can still be sloppy, belligerent, and rock out all at the same time. I was curious, though, to compare this show…
I’ve used the image of the Jury Room in Columbus, Ohio in presentations about social media for years. The point I made usually went something along these lines: This is a pub that sits across the street from the courthouse in Columbus. It’s been there since 1831. Once upon a time, if you wanted to…
While I was back in Ohio for a few days last week, a friend turned me on to a local startup, Cannon.FM. Their iOS app has been described as a Pandora for the local music scene. Having spent many of my younger years spending more time than I probably want to admit hanging around the…
When we moved into our new place at the end of October, and it turns out that the only available cable TV/internet bundle available to us is through Charter. It would not have been my first choice, given experiences I’ve heard from others, but it is what it is. I had U-Verse in my apartment,…