The Four Seasons’s hotel chain boasts a rather luxurious brand. So why have they started serving it up with a side of spam? Several weeks ago I sent them an email asking if there was an ATM in thier Buenos Aires hotel. Not only did it take them several weeks to get back to me, [...]

The past couple of weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind. I’ve started planning a kitchen renovation, went to Buenos Aires, got caught up in a flood of business opportunities, and I’m now packing up for a trip to Delhi. While BA was all pleasure, Delhi will be all work. My first reason to [...]

This is pure brilliance from an underrated brilliant man. Carlin likes to hold a mirror up to our uglier sides. Here he makes a delicious beat poetry of advertising and self-delusional bullshit. I particularly love how he juxtaposes situationally contradictory words in the same phrase to show how on the one hand they are contradictory, [...]

It has been a great trip, but today is the last day. We have a few things to try to squeez into the waning hours. All in all its has been fantastic. BA is a great city, and in 2 weeks we just started to get to know her. I’ll post more when I get [...]

Band & Olufsen have release a new phone called “Serene”. Too bad it looks an aweful lot like those cheap travel clocks and PIM devices you find places like the Sharper Image and airline product catalogs. Of course Serene is about $1200 more than those landfill items. B&O’s stylistic goals are pretty clear. They wanted [...]

It looks like if you want simple, its going to cost you. KitchenAid has a new blender out that’s super simple. On this unit you will only find only one retro style switch that offers three choices: up for on, down for pulse and center for off. And that’s it. What will this kind of [...]

Hype bothers me. Bullshit bothers me. Self promotion bothers me, especially when its made of equal parts hype and bullshit. As an example I’m going to pick on 37 Signals’ Basecamp product. Afterall, they’re certainly big enough not to care about what I say, and since every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it [...]

So I’m in Buenos Aires right now. Doing a little sight seeing. I’ve notice that when I travel I never visit a country–I alway visit a city. I rarely leave that city unless my trip is over. So, I’ve visited Barcelona, not Spain. Rome, not Italy. Cuzco, not Peru. In the city I walk. Everywhere. [...]

Once upon a time claims like “content is king,” or “cash is king” were heard all over the net and in disposable hype-mongers like RedHerring and Fast Company. Everyone was saying this or that was king. Well, if all the 2.0 stuff has shown us one thing its that people are king. YouTube isn’t about [...]