01
Feb
Open Source Beer Recipes
Interesting resource for beer recipes.
08
Dec
Augmented Reality
Local Business Center – Google Favorite Places.
I need an iphone lots of cool augmented reality apps are coming out.
This is my favorite.
08
Dec
Shopify — Build a Business Contest, Win 100k
Shopify — Build a Business Contest, Win 100k.
Tim Ferris if the 4 hour Work week is teaming up with Shopify to encourage entrepreneurship.
Get motivated. Get your business going so even if you don’t get the prize you win!!
05
Dec
Meetup
Since moving to Colorado 2 years ago meetup.com has played a huge role in my life. From meetup I was introduced to the Davinciinstitute.com and most of my clients and friends. Today I run three meetups. Boulder Beer, Boulder Italian Language and Boulder Business Builders. I even got press coverage from the Business group.
Today is Boulder Beer Meetup at the Grand opening of Boulder’s newest brewery. Asher Brewing. Looking forward to checking it out.
Little more trivia about meetup I learned at the organizers meeting. They spent 18 million dollars building the system, just broke even about 6months ago. They are expanding into Europe. 5.7 million members. 11,507 cities. 8340 topics. There is a meetup for just about anything.
11
Nov
Foodista.com – The Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit
Foodista.com – The Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit.
Wiki + recipes = Foodista. com this is cool.
14
Oct
Liquid Modernity
I think instead of building a foundation for my business I should be building a yacht. Reading the monthly update from Trendwatching and the ideas put forth by Bauman.
The rate of change is mind blowing. I was walking my dog the other day and I watched a youtube video on my cell while I was out in the field. Not new idea but it struck me how much has changed in the music industry. So many of the jobs I did in the past have become obsolete.
“Liquid Modernity” is Bauman’s term for the present condition of the world as contrasted with the “solid” modernity that preceded it. According to Bauman, the passage from “solid” to “liquid” modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to organize their lives.
Individuals have to splice together an unending series of short-term projects and episodes that don’t add up to the kind of sequence to which concepts like “career” and “progress” could be meaningfully applied.
Such fragmented lives require individuals to be flexible and adaptable — to be constantly ready and willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandon commitments and loyalties without regret and to pursue opportunities according to their current availability. In liquid modernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate the likely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) under conditions of endemic uncertainty.”
via trendwatching.com’s October 2009 Trend Briefing covering “NOWISM”.
14
Oct
MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS
Altidude
via MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS.
I don’t know if I can say anything to elaborate on this.
10
Oct
Snow, Chilli & Beer
This weekend marks my second year in Colorado. It’s snowing outside. So I decided to cook some Chilli.
Just me Yogi and the Reverend. Avery’s Reverend quadruple ale.
A few years back I took a course from the Viking cooking school called “How to cook without a book”. Figured it was a chance to try it out.
I bought enough to eat on for the week.
Mark’s Snowy Day Chilli
Prep Time: 30mins
Cook Time: 2hrs
Ingredients:
1.5lbs Hamburger
1.5lbs Pork Shoulder
1. Tablespoon Olive Oil
3 Clove Garlic
5 Vine Ripe Tomatoes
1 Onion
4 Carrots
6 Celery Stalks
3 Serrano Peppers
2 15 oz Cans Organic Tomato Sauce
1 Large Can of Organic Chopped Tomatoes
2 15 oz Cans of Oganic Chilli Beans
1 Bottle Honey BBQ Sauce
1 Package Organic Chilli Seasoning mix
Directions:
Open Beer and pour in glass. Have a a few sips while cooking.
Mince the Garlic
Chop the Onion
Chop the Celery
Chop the Carrots
Chop the Tomatoes
Chop the Peppers
Cube the Pork.
I a 2 quart sauce pan, fill about 1/3 with water and bring to a boil. Once it’s boiling add the cubed pork shoulder and bbq sauce.
Let boil on medium heat for 1 hour.
In a large pot add Garlic and Tablespoon Olive Oil over medium high heat. Sauté until brown.
Add the onion. Sauté until brown. (I also added some of the pork cause it wouldn’t fit in the other pan.)
Add the Ground Beef, Celery and Carrots. Stir occasionally and let brown.
Add tomatoes and peppers. Continue to Stir occasionally.
Open Chilli bean cans and drain excess liquid before adding the beans to the pot.
Add the cans of Chopped Tomatoes, Spice mix and Tomato Sauce to the pot.
Turn heat to medium on both pots and let boil for about 30mins stir occasionally.
Check the pork is tender.
Spoon the pork into the main pot. With some of the sauce from the pork but not all, about a cup.
Slow boil on medium low heat for 30mins.
Serve:
