Tag: leftcolumn
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one rule giving
From time to time, in the midst of the beatdown-that-can-be-a-startup, I like to muse on “some day” when the hustle has reached fruition and the bank account overflows and millions have been lifted up by LIGHTHOUSE to lead happier more thriving lives. Somedays my mind goes to easy things like paying for everyone’s college, or […]
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Merry Xmas Dee
For some reason Mom comes to mind more often on the anniversary of her passing than on her birthday. Maybe it’s the proximity to Christmas and her love of the celebration and her deep-seated faith. Maybe personal-tragedy creates deeper grooves in the soul than some collection of days we sporadically celebrated. We mark the official […]
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J’ai envie
For work I’ve always got a panoply of Amazon devices that spring into action if I utter the phrase “Alexa” above a whisper. Today at lunch I was enjoying a little Tuna Ahi at my desk and one of the voice boxes started to autoplay a new Amazon Original series called “Romanov”. The premise isn’t […]
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NYC 24
With school starting up and our partnership in full effect, I slightly raised the bar for NY travel these past three months. I got some snow, made it out to Connecticut a bunch of times, and enjoyed some Rockefeller Ice Skating. The recent highlight has definitely been Springsteen on Broadway…holy crap that was great. I’ve […]
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Fortnite has Arrived
For the past six or eight months I’ve heard about the massive online game that is one part Minecraft and one part Hunger Games. Within Ford’s class, it’s split about 50/50 of those-who-do and those-who-don’t. I’ve read enough on kids and video games – everything from the important role they play for developing boys and […]
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Art by the Numbers
Artnet put out the first of their planned series of intelligence briefs, and it is a MONSTER. They had me with the cover and a teaser to let me know who had survived the “zombie apocalypse”. To be clear, I’m probably closer to the inner workings of Professional Rodeo than the art market, although I […]
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Cows + Cars
It is the thing of lore and glory to be on the stage at Techcrunch Disrupt. This year LIGHTHOUSE made the “second” stage as part of a health + wellness track – not quite the big chance at glory, but I still got a first hand look at The Show. Big Value: I met the […]
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Wow, that’s a pretty good job…
Dr. Tewell at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian was charismatic and demanding. He didn’t suffer the Sunday-only Presbyterian who ignored their duties of officium et pecuniae (service and donation), and so FAPC had a very active volunteer team. It wasn’t unusual for Dr. T to finish service with “we’re not leaving here until I have two more […]
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Wizardly
Me and The Fellas are working to make painting a habit. We had so much fun around the Opus Memoriae MMXVII that we decided that each month we were going to pick the “theme of the month” or some thing we really enjoyed and make a picture out of it. For January, I am the […]
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Okay, maybe self-driving cars is a thing…
I’ve mostly ignored self-driving cars except for occasionally peering into a Google Maps vehicle. I’ll admit, I’ve been working off three long-ago formed biases. My computer degree in 1875 had a focus in Artificial Intelligence, and in particular, vision (as opposed to image or voice). Back then the Roomba was a fantasy and the idea […]