Tomorrow I start living on a food stamp budget. I’m participating in the San Francisco Food Bank hunger challenge to understand what it would be like to live such a tight budget and highlight the Food Bank’s important role in helping out hungry families.

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Yesterday I wanted to make some BBQ sauce. I remembered I had a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated that I wanted to try, so I spent 30 minutes looking for the right magazine. No luck. I then went online, where I *think* I found the recipe, but ALAS, it was behind a login wall. No worries, they say they have a 14 day free trial. I enter my email ( Read more... )

I recently saw this post from an artist complaining that Urban Outfitters stole her design. I am a huge supporter of local and independent designers. I love de-constructed, re-constructed, up-cycled, original, vintage fashion, though I feel the whole thing was blown way out of proportion, including UO removing the necklaces from their site*.

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I’ve been working on a new company cofounded with friends, SnappyTV. We give you the ability to share clips of television in near-real time from when it airs. Here’s a thoughtful piece from our CEO about our business and the tv-web space.

So today has been a very good day.


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I made a video for Easter.

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Resurrection of the bunny on YouTube

In related news, I am super excited about the new Final Cut X. My #1 favorite feature: background rendering. This is killer and I’m very excited.

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One of my favorite aspects of travel is experiencing the culture through food. When I was younger I refused to eat “weird” things (although when I was tiny I ate whatever my parents gave me, including Baulet). This restaurant next to the Molino Stucky Hilton presented us with this mixed appetizer dish.


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I made this video for a new company I’ve been working with called Bee.tv. They do tv & movie recommendations and they have a free iphone app. I’ve been playing with it and it’s pretty cool. It was really fun coming up with which tv shows & movies to spoof. Some of them are more recognizable than others. Can you guess them all?


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BaconCamp was a huge success and we raised about $1500 for the San Francisco Food Bank. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera at home. I’m ashamed - I didn’t take a single photo at BaconCamp. Good thing there are other more organized folks to step in:


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