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Wine Matters: Pick a wine to fit your feast
Published by November 15th, 2006 in Lifestyle, Food and Wine. 0 CommentsWine Matters: Pick a wine to fit your feast will help you pick the right wines for your upcoming holiday meals.
Many men have basically given up on fashion.
Common explanations include:
- men’s fashion is not important
- men’s fashion is too time consuming
- men’s fashion is too expensive
- men’s fashion is too generic
- men’s fashion is too confusing
These are all weak excuses. I know because I have used them all. Ultimately, we are afraid. Afraid looking stupid or out of place. But we may be doing that now and not even know it.
First, fashion is important. Well over 75% of you is typically clothed, so your clothing is what people see first and foremost. Not only that, judgments, right or wrong, are being made.
Second, it doesn’t need to take any more time than it currently does to get dressed. Once you understand the principles of men’s fashion, you don’t need to spend a lot of time worrying about what to wear.
Third, it is too expensive, if you buy what’s shown in the fashion magazines. But is could be costing you even more by not dressing appropriately.
Fourth, you don’t need to look like everyone else, and you shouldn’t. As mentioned previously, well over 75% of you is covered in clothing. By discovering your own style (it’s easy), you will never look like everyone else.
Finally, by sticking with what you know, you are stuck in a fashion rut and likely look like ‘everyone else’ who is stuck in the same rut.
We will be exploring this and much more in upcoming posts.
Ipod Shuffle (Is the mp3 player finally too small?)
Published by November 9th, 2006 in miscellaneous and technology. 0 CommentsI went jogging yesterday around Green Lake with my iPod Shuffle and my faithful companion Lucy (seen below reading about Paris).
While jogging I began to reflect upon the shuffle’s size and design. The Shuffle fits nicely in the palm of my hand with the controls beneath my thumb. Without breaking stride I could crank up the volume, skip a song or stop the music all together. (When jogging with a dog on a crowded path any and all of these may be required.)
Today I was over at the Apple website and wouldn’t you know it, a new iPod Shuffle. Has Apple finally exceeded customer utility? This totally reminds me of this sketch I saw last fall on SNL, in which Steve Jobs introduces several new models as each one becomes obsolete.
While I have yet to see the new shuffle in person, this Apple image indicates to me that it may in fact be TOO SMALL. I for one think that the original iPod Shuffle was just the right size and design. I won’t even get into the new versions’ lack of a USB port for use as a USB flash drive…
Apple made several other announcements today, including the ability to download movies via iTunes and new versions of the other models of Ipods.
Additionally, there was mention of an item code name iTV. Now this is an item that will either be huge or totally ‘Newton’. Anyhow, Apple is making the bold attempt to bridge the gap between the pc and the home entertainment center. Should anyone be able to successfully crack this nut, it would be huge.
Comcast Motorola and Microsoft - a miserable combination
Published by November 3rd, 2006 in technology. 0 CommentsWhat happens when you combine Comcast cable services with hardware from Motorola and software provided by Microsoft?
You get the worst possible implementation of High Definition (HD) TV service available.
This has been bugging me for a long time but after reading John Battelle’s rant about Comcast’s crappy HD box, I felt that I must chime in with my own experiences.
For the most of 2005 I had the pleasure of having my HDTV service provided by the Dish Network. This service was great and I only canceled it when I moved to a new home prewired for Comcast. As it is a rental, I decided to go with Comcast cable rather than ask permission to have a dish installed. What a mistake.
Here is a quick guide chart to some of the main differences between Comcast and DishNetwork HDTV services.
You get the worst possible implementation of High Definition (HD) TV service available.
This has been bugging me for a long time but after reading John Battelle’s rant about Comcast’s crappy HD box, I felt that I must chime in with my own experiences.
For the most of 2005 I had the pleasure of having my HDTV service provided by the Dish Network. This service was great and I only canceled it when I moved to a new home prewired for Comcast. As it is a rental, I decided to go with Comcast cable rather than ask permission to have a dish installed. What a mistake.
Here is a quick guide chart to some of the main differences between Comcast and DishNetwork HDTV services.
| Comcast HD | DishNetwork HD | |
| DVR? | Y | Y |
| HDTV? | Y | Y |
| On Demand programming? | Y | N |
| Recording of series works correctly? | N | Y |
| Records 2 programs simultaneously? | Y | Y |
| Recording only “New” episodes correctly? | N | Y |
| Intuitive Interface? | N | Y |
| Show year information of program? | N | Y |
| Recognizes previously recorded programs? | N | Y |
| Responsive to input from remote? | N | Y |
| Viewing of recorded program on 2nd TV? | N | Y |
| Forward jump to skip commercials? | N | Y |
| Allows recording of Pay Per View? | N | Y |
Some additional issues that I have related to the Comcast HD service with the Motorola box 6412 include that it randomly and frequently reboots, messing up recordings and generally annoying me. Also, the remote is often unresponsive, and then after about a minute, all of the buttons I previously pressed are executed. This is so very annoying. I have confirmed these problems with several friends and family.
Don’t take my word for it, just do a google search for comcast dvr sucks. 153,000 search results can’t be wrong.
I hope to change back to the Dish Network HD service soon…
Steve Wynn, owner of the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas had a very expensive accident a couple of weekends ago. He had just completed a private sale of Picasso’s Le Reve for $139 million. All that was left was the delivery of the painting from Las Vegas to the East Coast.
According the the blog of Nora Ephron, who was a witness to the event:
[…]Steve Wynn launched into a long story about the painting — he told us that it was a painting of Picasso’s mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, that it was extremely erotic, and that if you looked at it carefully (which I did, for the first time, although I’d seen it before at the Bellagio) you could see that the head of Marie-Therese was divided in two sections and that one of them was a penis. This was not a good moment for me vis a vis the painting. In fact, I would have to say that it made me pretty much think I wouldn’t pay five dollars for it. Wynn went on to tell us about the provenance of the painting - who’d first bought it and who’d then bought it. This brought us to the famous Victor and Sally Ganz, a New York couple who are a sort of ongoing caution to the sorts of people who currently populate the art world, because the Ganzes managed to accumulate a spectacular art collection in a small New York apartment with no money at all. The Ganz collection went up for auction in 1997, Wynn was saying — he was standing in front of the painting at this point, facing us. He raised his hand to show us something about the painting — and at that moment, his elbow crashed backwards right through the canvas.
There was a terrible noise.
Wynn stepped away from the painting, and there, smack in the middle of Marie-Therese Walter’s plump and allegedly-erotic forearm, was a black hole the size of a silver dollar - or, to be more exactly, the size of the tip of Steve Wynn’s elbow — with two three-inch long rips coming off it in either direction. Steve Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision, but he could see quite clearly what had happened.
“Oh shit,” he said. “Look what I’ve done.”
He kept his cool, however, made a couple of phone calls and over the next several days, decided not to sell the painting after all.
Additional coverage can be found in the New Yorker piece, “THE 40-MILLION-DOLLAR ELBOW”.
Are you really cool, Mac Dude?
Published by September 17th, 2006 in Fashion, miscellaneous and technology. 0 CommentsSo, you think that you are cool cuz you own a MacBook Pro? Well, there is a lot more to cool than just owning the right machine, you gotta look the part.
The folks over at Life Clever will help with that. They’ll even tell you where to shop and the total look will only set you back about $160.00. And since you just laid out over $2,500 on your laptop, this makes more than just fashion sense.
Designer Andy Spade must be getting pretty desperate to sell his Jack Spade bags. From the Cool Hunting website comes word that Jack Spade is selling Frog Dissection kits in its New York store.
Finally a reason, other than a laptop, for carrying a man purse. Don’t get me wrong, I have long carried a messenger bag and more recently a laptop/messenger bag. But, I don’t need a dead frog to justify it. But then again it would definitely justify my man purse.
This past spring I found my new favorite men’s clothing line, Trovata.
I was first drawn to the cut and color of my first piece. But upon finding this letter stitched inside my shirt, I fell in love with the line. Each season brings a new line of clothing combined with a new fictional story which is literally woven into the clothing (more information in the links that follow).
I was able to obtain two additional pieces this past spring (my lucky B-Day shirt and a great T-shirt). Both of these shirts get comments on a regular basis. Check out the details in my B-Day shirt. In the t-shirt which reads “Archaeology - Dig it”, I have had Archaeology graduates stop me to discuss rocks (yeah, I like rocks too…) and outside the PCC a woman laughed and yelled at me across the parking lot that ‘Ross’ on Friends would have loved that shirt (yeah, he was a real person…).
This past week I also grabbed me a new corduroy jacket. I love this stuff. Their spring 2007 line has just been announced and looks to be quite fun.
The Southern California company is only a few years old, but is making quite a name for itself. Last fall it won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund top prize in New York.
New York magazine covers the Spring 2007 Fashion Week and has more on the label here.
Stephanie Rogers has a great post about the history of Trovata here and she gives a nod to a brief PSFK post.
In Seattle, Trovata clothing can be had at Barney’s downtown and Blackbird in Ballard. I like both stores, but really have to encourage everyone to check out Blackbird. It is a great store. Outside of Seattle check out Revolve Clothing online.