It’s been well-documented that Twitter is phasing in “buy now” links on products featured in sponsored tweets. But this offer from Foreign Policy is something I haven’t seen before. I do wonder what discount Facebook Foreign Policy readers get. Continue reading A (Twitter) Offer You Can’t Refuse
There’s definitely a lot to digest from yesterday’s iPhone and iWatch announcement. My primary thought is this: I’m more interested in Apple Pay than I am in Apple Watch. Since my goal is to streamline my tech existence – and ultimately carry fewer devices or amenities – Apple Pay offers the greatest benefit, since I … Continue reading Paying it Forward
Wow, a lot of interest in shares of Advance Auto Parts and Appel Pete Corp. Or just stocks that sound like AAPL. Continue reading iWatching the Stock Market
At the closing bell on Friday, Facebook edged up to just over $77/share, putting its market cap at some $200 billion. It’s an incredible run-up, clocking a nearly 90% gain in one year. I think Facebook’s success, at least on a stock market level, is due to a few things: 1. Obvious exuberance in the … Continue reading You Know What’s Cool? $200 Billion
Starbucks and Uber just inked a deal which integrates the latter’s transportation functionality into the Starbucks app, allowing user to select Uber as an option for navigating to the closest store for their caffeine fix. This new feature is thanks to Uber’s release of its API to a number of firms, allowing them to bake in this sort of functionality … Continue reading One Espresso for the Road
I recently completed a 16-month immersion in The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro’s sprawling biography of our often-overlooked 36th President. Between April 2013 and August 2014, I buried myself in the 3,500 pages – and thirty-five years of research – that comprise a series of books that is not just a biography of a man, but the … Continue reading Reading Johnson
“Don’t panic.” It’s on the cover of one of my favorite books for a reason, and I needed that advice badly tonight. I had just spent an hour preparing one of my earlier recipes from scratch and had taken my first bite of my steaming hot Sloppy Joe Tacos™. Expecting a sweet and juicy bite, I was overwhelmed … Continue reading Accidental Abundance or “Oops, was that Tbsp or Tsp?”
Yesterday, Instagram released Hyperlapse, a video recording app that shoots at a lower frame rate than standard video apps, yielding smoother, more cinematic looking video that resembles Hollywood tracking shots. I tried it out – very briefly! – on a run earlier today, and indeed, the app does what it says. Now, I just need to find … Continue reading Hyperlapse
If you have some of those friends who think that vegan food is all about salads and Grateful Dead songs, make them this dish and you will change their collective worldview. This vegan Asian style stir fry tasted as good as any beef dish I’ve had at an Asian restaurant and it was way healthier (less fat, … Continue reading Vegan Beef-Tip Stir Fry
Recently I stumbled upon this intriguing tweet: Some background – Vim is a powerful text editor that is mostly used from a command prompt/terminal by programmers or other IT professionals. It is notorious for it’s steep learning curve because its simplest operations (like moving the cursor or even exiting the program) are not immediately obvious. After … Continue reading Break Those Barriers
Silicon Spatula 