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Written By: darien on November 30, 2009 No Comment
Seriously, Microsoft?  That’s your sell?

"Microsoft: We Suck Less Now"

So this ad popped up on Pandora this morning and I just had to grab a screen shot.  I find this whole Windows 7 campaign to be one of the more perplexing that I’ve seen in a while.  Microsoft is actually trying to sell us on their new products [...]

Written By: darien on August 14, 2009 One Comment
Mixology experiment gone horribly right.

Inspiration doesn’t hit me often, but today it hit me like a sack of steaming excrement.  The idea: create a martini that tastes like the creamy goo at the center of a Twinkie; the Twinkietini.

Before setting out, I did a quick Google search that revealed a couple of so-called “Twinkietini” recipes that already [...]

Written By: darien on June 21, 2009 One Comment
A Hard Gay Father’s Day!

Hard Gay is on a mission to make sure that today’s youth are grateful to their fathers (or ‘daddies’, as the case may be).  Happy Father’s Day!  Hoooooooooo!

Written By: darien on June 5, 2009 No Comment
A testament to my nerdiness

So it’s been a while since I’ve updated here.  I spent the last two weeks in the Washington DC area, visiting family and attending a cousin’s wedding.  It was good to see everyone again, but I’m also glad to be home and getting back to business.

Today, however, I had to take care of something that [...]

Written By: darien on May 20, 2009 No Comment
I totally took Miss Alaska to the Rickshaw

Last night, my friend Stephany was in town. She had an evening stopover in Seattle because she was flying out of SeaTac this morning, so I had an opportunity to take her out and catch up and try to convince her to move here. Oh yeah, and she’s Miss Alaska.

As with [...]

Written By: darien on May 17, 2009 No Comment
A steamy bromance

For the past several months, Jon and I have been spending a lot of time together.  It’s really a function of the obvious: that a) we’re roommates and b) we’re starting a business together.  But we go to the park together, to movies together, to cute restaurants together, yesterday we went to the mall [...]

Written By: darien on May 2, 2009 3 Comments
Publicity fail.

Jon and I had another great meeting with our developer yesterday.  As always, he took on an extremely consultative role, forcing us to rethink and redesign elements of our workflow and site functionality.  He has been more than generous with his time and, even though we don’t have a product yet, we believe we [...]

Written By: darien on April 30, 2009 33 Comments
Manooghi Hi on the front page of The Bombay Times

Today, Seattle-local band Manooghi Hi was featured in a front-page article of The Bombay Times.  I work in sales with their drummer, John Hollis, who showed the article to me this morning.  It seemed like his mind couldn’t quite wrap itself around the absurd significance of such a feature.  Mine [...]

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