Category: Opinion
Hear Me on Macworld Pundit Showdown XXIV
I was invited to participate in the last Macworld Pundit Showdown episode of 2013, and it was a lot of fun. Host Philip Michaels asks questions about the tech industry (such as, “Who will we be making fun of this time next year as the CEO of Microsoft?”), and the participants all vie for points ...
Great Things
Verbatim exchange between me and my daughter this morning. Her reply was immediate: Me: "What is the world coming to?" 5yo: "Great things." Wow I love this kid. — Jeff Carlson (@jeffcarlson) August 8, 2013
(A Father’s) Course Corrections
What I’m learning as a father is that parenting involves hundreds of little behavioral course corrections. Sometimes it’s something direct and forceful—don’t pound on the glass door; be careful, that pot on the stove is very hot—but usually it’s a lot of little nudges. “Try this.” “You might want to consider that instead.” “Please say ...
Kickstarting the Veronica Mars Movie
Thanks to 39,000 (and counting) people today, there’s going to be a Veronica Mars movie in spring of 2014. The project, by show creator Rob Thomas, was set to fund if the Kickstarter campaign raised $2 million within 30 days. It actually took only ten hours to reach the goal. As I write this, late ...
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