A successful night of candy and giggles.
Emily has been coughing all day so she has the raspy jazz voice to fit her “diva” outfit. You should have heard all the people going “oh aren’t you beautiful” tonight. It never got old for me to hear.
The kids actually said “our bags are too full can we […]

Happy Halloween and Samhein!
I may not be dressing up in real life today because let’s face it, sitting around my house alone in a costume is just down right strange.
But, in Second Life of course I’m going to dress up a bit and have some fun. After all that is what it should always be […]

The amazingly talented and laid back Jimmy Golding swings by the U-Turn Cafe today for a special episode. Full show notes here.
Jason Jarrett introduced me to Jimmy at the Podcast Expo this year. We instantly hit it off and I can’t wait to have a pint with both of them in a few weeks when […]

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Dad had a conference in Providence today so he dropped Abe off on his way through.
The kids are all kinds of excited to get home tonight because both Pappa and Abe will be here. Not sure which they are most excited about, but I’m sure it’ll be a tie in […]

Mother Nature felt like opening up the skies today in New England. It’s wet, rainy and all around blargh. Good day to catch up things around the house that have been slipping and to finally carve jack-o-lanterns.
It’s been a big huge week for me. Quite the shift in everything and I’m happy about it all.
I […]

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I love the lighting effects in this shot.
When I first chatted with Versu about building the island I stressed that I wanted it to look good at night. So many places go dark and I wanted this to have a mood when the sun went down and she hit it perfectly.
The […]

Here is a picture from today’s launch of crayon.

It makes me smile for multiple reasons with the biggest one being that it was taken at the end of the highly successful launch of crayon.
The other reason though is because I remember where this all started. June 6th of this year. (yes I had to look […]

Even as we gear up for the launch I just had my mind blown by something new in Second Life.
Check it out here.
Koz Farina of blogHUD! fame sent me to this page. It’s live streaming video from Second Life. He’s doing it on his home computer and this is early alpha phase so it might […]

It’s not every day that I get to drop a random Madsumo quote so of course I had to take advantage of it right now.
We’ve got just under 24 hours until crayon goes live. To even try to sum up the emotions that are going on inside me right now would be impossible. It’s excitement, […]

I’m a fan of Moleskine noteboks. Have been ever since my buddy Mark turned me onto them.
Today in the mail I got one of the new Moleskine City Guides for London from a podcast listener. It’s such a cool, special and practical gift that it made me really stop and remembe the unique relationships we […]

It’s exciting and tiring days/nights/all hours around here right now. With a name like crayon wouldn’t you think all we had to do was color some business cards or something? *smirk*
Ask anyone who has ever launched a company and I’m sure they would describe what I’m feeling right now. The rollercoaster of emotions you go […]

Earlier this summer I heard the words “I’m starting a new company called crayon” for the first time and my world changed.
It’s a pretty cool story about that night and one I have already covered over on Managing the Gray. You can read it here or listen to it here.

I firmly believe that crayon is […]

I’m sitting in the living room of my in-laws in New Hampshire right now.
I’m on my laptop sitting on the couch. Practically melting from the heat of the fireplace that they always have full of wood burning bright.
In one window I’m updating a web page, in another I’m doing some shopping for Second Life. Then […]

Based on the questions and the reactions the presentation went well.
At least accoding to the Canadian Marketing Blog and Jaffe.
I feel pretty good about it. Felt weird to only talk about podcasting and not the social media world as a whole, but I hope people took away a better understanding then when they sat down […]

I’ve never been this nervous for a presentation in my life. Maybe it’s the high bar that was raised by the speakers yesterday. Maybe it’s because I know there are technology things that are going to make this weird for me already. Maybe it’s the room full of people this early in the morning. All […]