2008

Looking at the house I grew up in, haven’t been there in over 10 years. Kinda surreal

anyone want the domain imreadingthis.com ? about to expire and I don’t have a use for it....

At the alley theatre

At the alley

Lunch at brasil over on westheimer, hope the food is as great as the atmosphere

Lefora - Great new forum software

“I recently found the pink/green combo as well. After buying...”
— me, on Men’s Flair - Odd...

BIL Conference adds the Seesmic WP Plugin, so now you can leave video comments. Test it out for us!...

photos from the Ideas Challenge two days ago: http://flickr.com/photos/mg315/

More photos of the Ideas Challenge

More photos from the Ideas Challenge

If you have mariocart for the wii, add me as a friend: 0344-9761-2428

Hippy parties are awesome

here’s the great photo of @ericaogrady - http://tinyurl.com/5vh58e

Erica and Tracey at Guy Kawasaki’s Talk at HTC. More...

Dwight Silverman at Guy Kawasaki’s Talk at the HTC....

Guy kawasaki at HTC

processing photos at the @guykawasaki talk, I’ll have my photos on flickr before he’s...

Got kicked out of the VIP room at HTC… A better photographer showed up :(

off to houston, meeting at Transco (I still refuse to call it Williams Bros), then galleria, then...

going to be hanging around the Houston Galleria tomorrow waiting for Kawasaki’s talk to start...

considering doubling my rate for clients who want me to do something after recommending against it,...

My Hedge Fund Earns 115% Annually

considering getting TechCrunch 50 tickets, they have a $150 student rate. Should I go? Anyone else...

The Morality of Ending Aging

Pomegranates are growing!

“Great food and amazing atmosphere, both in the restaurant...”
— me on Square One Restaurant,...

I just realized I have one of the best jobs ever, entrepreneur in residence at Texas A&M

Home grown strawberries are better than any store bought...

wow, apple must be listening, issued a firmware upgrade today that fixes the external monitor...

… Macbook pro they gave me when they lost my powerbook

But one positive from trip, apple genius sold me apple care (and got new battery). Apple corporate...

Apple genius says that 10.5.2 made it so I can’t use my macbook pro with external...

Updated http://ericksonmediagroup.com/ , let me know what you think

Both my calculators are broken… i’m considering bringing my slide rule for my accounting...

Reading outside in a park

Circle birds at revolutions

Circle birds at rev

looks like glass house isn’t gonna work out, couldn’t find enough people :(

making new summer plans, might spend a week in New York/Connecticut late May. Can get 6 tickets to...

waiting to hear from @techstars …

I’m looking at getting a group together to go to see Phillip Johnson’s Glass House,...

“Assuming they are able to make a micro-black hole, it will...”
— me, on The Battallion -...

“Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. To see...”
— me, on Startup Houston -...

3. Trade only for consumption (no speculation)

Finance prof is awesome - CAPM is based on 3 assumptions, all of which are false. 1. Ppl are...

looks like I’m not going to make it to austin for @andrewhyde ‘s Startup Drinks :(

Raspberry’s started growing

Qcue won the rice business comp, great product and an even better team

Award presentations are SO much more interesting when the presenter is drunk

Wow, winner of rice comp get to ring the opening bell at Nasdaq in June

On my way to the rice business comp awards dinner, thanks @latinspace for the invite

Driving to Houston, the wild flowers are beautiful

doing some #BIL planning, want to build something similar to ze frank’s ORG

just saw a photo of aubrey de grey wearing the #BIL shirt I designed, so cool….

At business creativity seminar, keynote speakers are Franz Ehrhardt of conoco and Robert Stephens of...

Mays Business Online » A&M student seeks to...

dilbert cartoon today - “congratulations, you’re the first human to fail the turing...

We found a cat, calling it pancakes until someone comes to get it

yesterday I got the best compliment ever, someone said I looked like I should be on the Sartorialist...

over 180 people have signed up for the next #BIL, have you? http://tinyurl.com/ysrnfh

Got an email today that the Schmap Texas Guide wants to...

tonight I’m going to a talk with Dr. Steven Weinberg (Nobel prize in physics) and Dr. Francis...

This is the first time I’ve thought of a&m as a college campus - walked by a girl reading...

interview is going great, will be online tomorrow #bil

radio interview in 15 minutes and I haven’t prepared anything, oh well. hopefully I...

Put a light bulb in the microwave and enjoy the show :)

sold at a 98.8% discount to book value as of Feb 29.

wow, JP Morgan buys Bear Stearns for $2/share, Bear Stearns closed last friday at $30/share. Fed...

Badass roof party, 3rd and guadalope

Guerrilla gardening in downtown Bryan, planting 12 tomato plants across city. #gg

Getting ready for some guerrilla gardening

Gmail’s spam filtering is terrible now, over half the emails in my Inbox are spam

Lunch at the golf course, chances are I’ll give up reading and play a quick 9

Beautiful day outside, going to spend it reading out by the lake

just finished reading Kevin Kelly’s New Rules for the New Economy - #iamreadingthis

probably not going down to Austin today, bad weather. I35 is closed due to a wreck (thanks...

It’s raining today so I decided not to go to Austin...

Talked with Kevin rose, we’ll probably have diggnation at #BIL 2009

At facebook party, just ran into Kevin rose

Anyone want to go golfing this week? dm me

Spending the day reading and relaxing at lake Travis

Taking a nap in the theatre at barcamp Austin, set alarm for 5.30 so I don’t miss dinner

Hungover at #sxsw

Six is at 4th and Colorado

35 is so backed up, picked a bad time to drive to Austin

Driving to Austin, should be there soon [tiny twitter]

If you weren’t able to get one of the free #BIL conference shirts, request one here:...

Just had the best food i’ve had so far in sf, at fresca, tasted amazing and was very...

article on #BIL in Wired - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2008/03/bil

In a ball pit at google, built by a googler for burning man

Heading over to google to get lunch and tour

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Post #BIL drinks and dinner at Montrio

Amazing. The whole #BIL crowd took apart the facility in 20 min

Garret lisi giving his theoretical physics talk, and my talk is right after. Gonna be hard to...

about to give my talk on how the #BIL Community can help advance the #TED Prize

CEO of powerset giving talk on semantic web and natural language search at #BIL

Aubrey de Grey at BIL

At the #ted dinner, just met Chris Anderson. We’re going to talk about future partnerships...

Aubrey is on stage at #BIL, room is packed and no one else is able to get in

Talking with Aubrey de grey at #BIL

first photos of #BIL - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/sets/72157604016751086/

#BIL in one hour

hiding in a corner of #BIL with an EDGE card, uploading photos to flickr

Amazing discussions at pre #BIL dinner

Anytime you say “science” at #BIL, everyone does jazz hands and say science!

Spending some time with reicart, one of the smartest minds of our time. Very interesting guy, #BIL

In monterey, getting #BIL all set up

Driving up to monterey to set up #BIL [tiny twitter]

Out of business cards! Need to get to my suitcase so I can restock

Looks like we’re having a big dinner party at @rycaut house

Heading over to twitter’s office

looks like Garrett Lisi has been the best speaker at #TED so far, and he’s going to be giving...

Heading over to citizen space

Meeting with Wesabe, www.Wesabe.com

about to be interviewed by NPR about #BIL

interview went well, listen for it on the Bryant Park Project either tomorrow or Monday

Planning BIL

Had great Chinese dinner, now taking pictures of bay bridge. I love this city

we’re looking at getting a car to go from SF to Monterey. anyone in SF going to BIL? d message...

We got to San Francisco around 11:30 this morning, and went...

Great burger at spork, now time to do BIL planning

At Shannon Clark’s house, this is huge! [tiny twitter]

Weather here is beautiful, I want to live here… [tiny twitter]

Just landed in sf! [tiny twitter]

Driving to the airport, be in Cali at 11.30 [tiny twitter]

#BIL needs your help! http://tinyurl.com/379q6k

I’m now officially on the Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board...

more photos of the MBA Tech Transfer Challenge 2008 

Back in college station, music festival in the neighborhood, perfect day for it

Driving to Houston, be back in college station in a few hours

the #BIL shirts are here! If I had my camera with me I’d do unboxing photos… now I need...

Listening to Kelsey’s presentation at refershbcs. @digitallatina: you coming?

wow, the second I posted that all 20 emails came through, weird

my blackberry isn’t getting any emails for some reason, no wonder why it hasn’t vibrated...

Meeting with Harvard business school

Official shirts for BIL are being sent to the print shop today, check out the design:...

Here’s the design for the shirts. They’re being...

if you’re gonna be in austin for SXSW, stay until Saturday Mar 15 and go out partying with me,...

designing the shirts for BIL

BIL Conference is coming up in two weeks! This is a text...

Parent Shock: Children Are Not Décor - New...

congrats @marc1919 on the coworking! can’t wait to check it out

anyone know what paperwork I need to fill out to get the right to work in London? d msg or email me:...

Congrats @joshtabin for the article in the Houston Chronicle

Wordpress Plugins

wow, jumped on to google calendars today (on accident) and noticed it has been syncing with my...

“I prefer hashtags.org , instead of searching to see what...”
— me, on A VC: Tweetscan

goal for tonight: cook an amazing (and filling) #dinner with no meat. I’m not a #vegan, I just...

#iamreadingthis - The Starfish and the Spider, great book on decentralized organizations

#BIL has it’s first sponsor! Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence just donated...

help us move the last 16 BarCampTX shirts, free with purchase of another Activist Apparel shirt:...

researching the TED Prize, and how we can integrate BIL into helping advance it

“I love it. I’m organizing an unconference called BIL...”
— me, on Interesting People -...

#TED loves #BIL too! We just heard from Chris Anderson (TED organizer) that they fully support BIL

the creative space is planning its next big event. This will be much bigger than BarCampTX, and even...