Electric Sheep, Wil Wheaton and “Big Bang Theory”
Just watched “Big Bang Theory” with Wil Wheaton making a guest appearance. In two different Diesel Sweeties t-shirts. You can read the gory details of the episode’s filming and the wardrobe backstory in Weaton’s blog about it. It was the first bit of network, prime time, non-sports television that I’ve watched in at least 18 [...]
Hot Potato and The Friends You Don’t Know Yet
Disclaimer: I consider Justin Shaffer a friend, and have gone to Yankees games with him, but we bought our own food. Justin Shaffer, former geek in residence at MLB Advanced Media, the digital arm of the nation’s pastime, is on the cusp of tossing a new entrant into the social media game with “Hot Potato”. [...]
Mergers of the Tribes
Mergers and acquisitions aren’t reserved for failing banks or technology companies: Turns out there’s excitement and kvelling in the Jewish themed consumer goods arena. Jewish Fashion Conspiracy had its run and their products sidled over to PopJudaica. In addition to “Jews for Jeter” t-shirts and matzah-print toilet seats, they put six-points of light into a [...]
More Jewish Baseball T-Shirts
My “Jews For Jeter” t-shirt provided comfort, good luck and naches during the Yankees’ championship run. But if you’re a Mets fan, the off-season came early, without celebration or pre-holiday post-season splurges at the local Dicks or Sports Authority. Take heart, fans of the injury-prone but get’em next year Amazins: New Rome Clothing has something [...]
WordCamp New York City 2009
WordPress is one of the most widely adopted, easily modified and customized blogging and content management platforms available. It’s what powers the Pork Roll world as well as some larger sites (oh, like CNN’s blogs); WordPress blogs are read by some tens of millions of users a day. Cool? Not as cool as being involved. [...]
Jewish Zodiac T-Shirts
I’ve loved Pop Judaica since they bought out the t-shirt assets of Jewish Fashion Conspiracy, mostly to get the prized “Jews for Jeter” design. They’ve done one better: an interpretation of the Chinese zodiac in the food mythology of my people. Where else can you find a “Year of the Black & White Cookie” t-shirt, [...]
Traceroute For A Bobble
I am appealing to the ‘net for help in solving what has become a family mystery. Cross-posted to my sports blog as well, because I’m looking for any reasonable clues. And yes, I got the idea from Clay Shirkey’s Here Comes Everybody. Not as exciting as a misappropriated cell phone, but perhaps of more interest [...]
Freecycle Economics
It took all of 24 hours for me to become a fan of freecycle. I have been moving a four by five foot plate glass mirror around my basement, cautiously leaning, bracing and sliding it so that it doesn’t give me personal experience in massive sharding. Now that the bathroom originally intended to house the [...]
Sanuk Sidewalk Surfers
I have a bad thing about shoes: I hate them. Partly this is because my feet are slightly different sizes, partly because my right foot has a deformed fourth metatarsal (ie, my right foot’s topography looks like that of the San Fernando Valley in relief), partly because my feet are so wide that it’s been [...]
Team Asthma
Got this incredibly slick stick from Meredith Gran, author of the Octopus Pie online comic. She asked readers to send her hand-written notes so she could see others’ scribbles; what we got back was a personalized note backing mass-produced iconography. “Team Asthma” is how my wife has referred to my hockey endeavors over the years, [...]