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Ventures of Vantage: 06/17/08
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. Who is Max Vantage? Who is Max Vantage. I went back and forth about whether or not I should bother dragging my turntables, mixer, effects, laptop, headphones, and army of cables into work. Wouldn’t people be just as, if not more entertained if I simply created a solid iPod playlist of soulful hip-hop and melodic house music? I had a party. Meh, probably not. Then I found out about the disco ball. A disco ball without a DJ? Try his hand at scratching. Expectin...
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Ventures of Vantage: San Francisco Trolley Race
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. San Francisco Trolley Race. I finished with the “business” part of my business trip at 2pm. My client dropped me off at SFO airport, and I began to wonder what I would do with the six hours I had left before my flight’s departure. Sure, I could search for an earlier flight, but I was in San Francisco! And didn’t BART connect SFO to downtown and Oakland? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to the Feed. Enter your email address:. Listen to me spin! A star...
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Ventures of Vantage: 11/25/07
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. My home was broken into this weekend. I've had a car stereo stolen from my car in my high school parking lot, but I've never lived somewhere that received that blessing of vulnerability called "breaking and entering". The worst part was waiting for the cops to show up (twice) and not being able to touch or move anything. All you want to do is get things back to normal and you can't, you can't go anywhere and you can't touch anything, you just have to dwell at...
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Ventures of Vantage: 01/15/08
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. Sarah Rings in 2008. It had been awhile since I'd been to the Oregon Coast, and while the coast can be unpredictably wet and windy year-round due to the mountains that lie immediately to the East, December is probably the predictably worst. Time to visit. No matter, we had a Flexcar. When we reached Pacific City, however; things started to clear up a bit. Just before entering the extremely popular Pelican Brewpub. The rest of the drive was just as nice, and we wo...
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Ventures of Vantage: 11/15/07
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. Remember when you thought text messages were ridiculously stupid? Finally, most of us had great deals on voice calls. some of us could even spend an unlimited time talking on the phone from anywhere in the country, to anywhere in the country, without paying anything extra. But somehow people were paying. To use a primitive technology! I can tell someone I don't feel like talking to exactly what I want them to know and be done with it. It's totally transformed...
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Ventures of Vantage: 11/14/07
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. I'm going to bed. It's been hectic since I returned from the UK, and I've gotten a lot of good feedback from those of you who were able (and many who weren't able) to endure the length and depth of my posts while on vacation. I'll keep them short, and if I have ideas I'll draft them first to keep the ratio steady. Here's my brief update before I slam headfirst into my hotel bed:. The main bummer is that I promised very specific shots of very specific experiences ...
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Ventures of Vantage: 10/31/07
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. Catching up, Summing up - UK day. whatever. As you get further from London, the prices on almost all goods go down dramatically. with one exception: Internet. The Internet has become so expensive now (over $8/hour! That I'm just going to sum up the rest of my trip, then catch up when I get home. Here goes:. Torn about where to go next, and kind of getting homesick, I was convinced to go up North a ways to York, a mideval town with a wall surrounding it. yeah,.
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Ventures of Vantage: 10/26/08
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. I used to be a productivity junkie, a GTD. Er I spent hours each week reorganizing to-do lists, reprioritizing task lists, and reading productivity bloggers' latest secret weapons. I had an epiphany when I started (your mind is for idea generation, not for idea storage) and an epiphany when I largely purged the lifestyle (feel, don't think, about what you should do at any given moment). Is anyone paying attention. is it even worth it? Edited, cropped, and (for th...
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Ventures of Vantage: 10/28/07
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. The British Museum and Arriving at Westfest - Day 4. Let's image there's this fiercely imperialist country, one with powerful dynasties and a solid class structure that encourages taking over other cultures and claiming their artifacts as spoils of war. Then let's imagine this country "decides" to open up the collection to their citizens. Such was born the British Museum. The shuttle bus arrived to take us to the venue late, and we waited in the rain for half an ...
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Ventures of Vantage: 10/25/07
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Instant Hindsight from Behind the Goatee. Anarchy in Londontown - Days 1 and 1.5. Here I am, in a Chinese restaurant on Oxford Street. The Internet in my hostel has been a disappointment, almost eternally occupied and unusably slow. I've already learned a lot from my trip. here's my stream of consciousness in no particular order:. The London Underground -. Well, I'm off to Hyde Park, Picadilly Square, and perhaps the Tate Modern before the day is out. Tomorrow I'll be doing a few walking tours, and t...
