Blog Profile / Adam Jackson
| URL : | http://blog.adam-jackson.net/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Social Media | |
| Posts on Regator: | 632 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.4 | |
| Archived Since: | October 17, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
? Technology: It was easier when we just bought CDs
Back in my day….yeah, that’s how this one starts but I’m really curious. Am I just getting old or is the music situation still a mess? Two years ago, I wrote about the Boxee Box and how it was overall a disappointment creating problems for me but not necessarily blaming Boxee. The IPTV market is [...]
? I bought a car. Feeling like an adult.
Two years ago today, I wrote this blog post. It was an overall update where the weather had warmed up and I was blogging by the river. I miss that little gazebo by the river. It was so relaxing. In that post, I wrote this: Next week, I’m picking up a brand new, never driven [...]
? The 1st Generation Nike FuelBand (new version?)
My review of the Nike FuelBand that was posted in July of 2012 is mostly unchanged. The software is still clunky, the band heavy and the overall data collected is minimal and often inaccurate. Driving in a car for 8 hours and reaching my fitness goal is not what I’d call accurate but, the graphs [...]
? Red Bull…Red, Silver and Blue
According to EnergyFiend, Red Bull is being slowly caught up with by Monster’s huge line of energy drinks. In order to diversify, Red Bull is releasing flavors. Cranberry, lime and blueberry flavors are available nationwide and I grabbed a can of each to see how these taste. Elizabeth liked all three flavors but I think [...]
? MLB Everywhere in 2013…still impossible but better than the rest
Everything I wrote a year ago still applies. A year later, my situation is worse. Watching or listening to every SF Giants game in 2013 will not cost $119. It’ll cost me $570. At an average price of $27.21 per ticket (source), I could go to nearly 21 home games in San Francisco..well, assuming I [...]
? Linked: “I Cheated on My Team with the Giants”
via The Bold Italic: “I won’t lie: The Giants are easy to love; they’re a charismatic bunch. The beards and the misfits and the gamer babes. The short-lived Melk Men. The pie-in-the-face locker room shenanigans. Kruk’s “Grab some pine, meat!” Kuip’s “Outta here!” Timmy’s “Fuck yeah!” The fact that they’ve won the World Series twice [...]
? “Coffee at Noma, The World’s Best Restaurant”
DCILY is the only coffee blog I read. Relevant, entertaining and always informative and I was thrilled to see Noma featured but also surprised. My only regret in Copenhagen 3 weeks ago was that I wasn’t able to dine at this world’s top restaurant. I tried reserving a single seat 4 weeks before the trip [...]
? On Hard Drives, Clouds and Data Reliability….I’m getting old.
Life in the cloud. Google that. You’ll find a lot of results for cloud storage, computing and a few things about Jesus. Let’s talk about the cloud. My iTunes library exceeds 2 terabytes. The size of my first laptop was 15 gigabytes. It was a 600Mhz iBook 12? and, according to my buddy Dennis Sellers [...]
? Dinner @ Kødbyens Fiskebar
The Fishbar (Kødbyens Fiskebar) is in the meatpacking district of Copenhagen. It’s a simple please but staffed by some very excellent chefs. The service was okay and not outstanding but the food was excellent. The oysters were perhaps the best I’ve ever had. Compared to the rest of the meal, those were what really shined [...]
? Dinner @ Restaurant Relæ
On Saturday evening, I visited Relæ. This is the alternative to the world’s #1 restaurant Noma for people like me who couldn’t get a reservation. It’s also half the price but that’s not the point. Relæ had an opening and Noma didn’t. Even still, I had a terrific time and the food presented to me over the [...]
? Linked: “Facebook can stick with its real name policy for now…”
ITWorld: Facebook was ordered to end its real name policy and permit the use of pseudonyms on its platform by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ULD) for Schleswig-Holstein last year. The social network violated the German Telemedia Act, which allows users to use nicknames online, according to the ULD. The orders were issued [...]
? Another reason why AirBNB Rocks!!!
In a follow up on this post from last year, I found this on TaskRabbit for San Francisco. It’s a job posted by AirBNB: Wow. AirBNB is so cool. Using Task rabbit to send things to a sick employee. Just awesome. What a very cool compa...
? Photography: Finding your photos in unexpected places
Last May, I visited a bar recommended to me by a friend. He knew I was a huge fan of Speakeasy bars and told me of a brand new world-class bar owned and operated by a man named Olivier Jacobs that had just opened called Jigger’s – The Noble Drugstore. I spent an entire evening [...]
? Starbucks’ The Automated Barista
I haven’t ordered an espresso based drink at Starbucks in a long-time. I happen to be a fan of Clover Brewed Starbucks’ Reserve coffee. Actually, the $20,000 USD Clover machines and Reserve Coffees are two newish initiatives at Starbucks that have kept me as a customer. Without them, I would have ditched the mega-coffee chain [...]
? Linked: “The End of Courtship?”
NYTimes: Many young men these days have no experience in formal dating and feel the need to be faintly ironic about the process — “to ‘date’ in quotation marks” — because they are “worried that they might offend women by dating in an old-fashioned way,” Ms. Rosin said. “It’s hard to read a woman exactly [...]
? 100 to 3 Megabits in the span of a day…
The few hundred readers that have been stopping by this blog since the very beginning are well aware of some of my posts on MPG back in the day where I posted product reviews and technology opinion pieces from the local public library…not during business hours but around midnight sitting outside of the library so [...]
? Crowd-Sourced Information about me on Facebook..not cool.
My Facebook profile is locked down to nothing now. I don’t have any “likes” on any pages yet Facebook still says I do. I also don’t have any photos or personal info but I was tagged in a lot of photos so that still shows up. In short, Facebook is a wide distribution list & [...]
? Longer in NH than SF
With the holidays and moving, I sort of forgot this day had already come and gone. Not that it’s all that important to anyone. Time spent living in California Time spent living in New Hampshire I still find it odd that I’ve been in New Hampshire as long as I have. I’m happy here but [...]
? Linkage: “Offline:”
I’ve linked to Paul Miller’s “Offline” project before. Paul is a writer at TheVerge and he’s taking a year away from the Internet and using sneaker net to send in his articles to colleagues. Occasionally, comments will be printed off for him to read. It’s an interesting thing and something I feel is fantastic. I [...]
? LInkage: The Magazine
Two articles, “You are Boring” and “Majestic Espresso” are just two of the many articles featured in The Magazine that I’ve really enjoyed reading. Most issues have 4-5 stories and a solid 75% of stories published are worth reading start to finish. I’m a subscriber to The New Yorker and NY Times both tablet editions. [...]