May 7th, 2009, 1 Comment »
I just read this silly National Post piece about Wayne Gretzky’s interest in his team moving to southern Ontario. The article contains a throwaway reference to the Great One’s ties to California:
“Why would Wayne want to go back to Canada?” asked Hollywood agent and friend Marv Dauer. “He’s been in L.A. for 21 years. His kids are in school here – one of them is a star football player who plays with Will Smith’s kid and Joe Montana’s kid – and his wife obviously likes the good weather.
That’s quite the pedigree. I went looking for confirmation, and found this great ESPN piece about the three superstars attending the same high school football game. It turns out that Joe’s son plays on an opposing team in the same league, but it’s still a charming story.
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April 23rd, 2008, 6 Comments »
- The meal portions are enormous. Of course, as all Canadians know, this happens when you enter the other 49 states as well.
- You’re less than 150 km from the arena, but the Sharks-Flames game isn’t on any of the 30-odd channels in your hotel room. Sure, there’s women’s college softball on ESPN 2, but no NHL. Fortunately, one television in the hotel bar has the game on satellite.
- While in the bar, you overheard this conversation between two women:
WOMAN #1: Are you still running?
WOMAN #2: No. My running partner got new boobs.
WOMAN #1: Are they too big for running?
WOMAN #2: Well, they’re really big. But one of them actually got infected.
WOMAN #1: Oh.
In defense of California, that conversation could have easily occurred in Vancouver, too. I’m off to Web 2.0 Expo. If you’re bored, there’s usually distracting stuff in my link blog in the sidebar (or here’s the RSS feed).
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April 21st, 2008, 2 Comments »
Just a quick note to say that I’m going to be in California for New Comm Forum this week. On Wednesday, April 23, I’m going to scoot down to Web 2.0 Expo to see a couple of clients and conduct a couple of interviews for our forthcoming book. I was fortunate to get media accreditation for the latter event (conveniently, our book is distributed by O’Reilly, the same people who put on the conference).
I know I’m a minnow in the tech-blogger ocean, but if any Web 2.0 Expo attendees want to pitch me, feel free. I like Stowe’s Twitpitch model:
Here’s the rules for Twitpitching:
- All companies who would like to have a meeting with me, need to send me a Twittered description of the product. Yes, please Twitter it to me at www.twitter.com/stoweboyd. Yes, one tweet, 140 characters less the eleven used for “@stoweboyd “.
- Optionally, send a supporting twitpitch with one link, and no other text. Could be to anything: website, video, press release, Rick Astley, etc.
- Then, twitter me one or more suggested times/place to meet at the event, using the times on the calendar, and a location in the conference building I won’t have time to visit your nearby hotel or offices.
If anybody wants to Twitpitch me, fire away.
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May 23rd, 2007, No Comments »
Via Dethroner, I discovered this cool and creepy photo set by Colin Brown from the aftermath of the Griffith Park Fire. This one is particularly weird, depicting a deer skeleton suspending from some tree branches. Commenters on the photo suggest (correctly, I hope) that somebody positioned the skeleton there after the fire.
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