My Small Town In The USA! (‘My Simple’ Official Video)
Great video, great track. Check “Help Doomtree Collaborator Become The Next Greyson Chance” via Secrets of the City. I don’t understand it exactly, but sounds like F. Stokes needs your help so he can play the song live on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Trying “Allies Win The War In Europe” ale by 21st Amendment Brewery for the first time. This is really good! It’s kind of sweet and mellow, and then it’s really strong. I had no idea what this beer was made of (the can doesn’t say), so I checked the website:
ALLIES WIN THE WAR! is 21st Amendment Brewery’s first ever collaboration beer, a traditional English-style Strong ale aged on native California dates and dry hopped with all-Northwest aroma hops. Available now in limited edition four-pack cans and draft.
Huh. That explains the sweetness, I guess! Date-Beer. Cool. It’s 8.5% yo, so don’t take this beer tubing down the Apple River.
I bought this beer as a single at Zipps Liquor, but I think they have the 4pks, too.
See more of my beer reviews, including more from 21st Amendment Brewery.
Mugshot Monday - “Kramarczuk’s 2011 Kielbasa Festival” mug with Fat Tire Amber Ale by New Belgium Brewing
I love Kramarczuk’s Deli for lunch. And right now you can buy this awesome mug (er…stein?) for $5! And it totally comes filled with beer. I chose Fat Tire to compliment my Hungarian Sausage sandwich. No free refills, however.
I did not attend the 2011 Kielbasa Festival, but it sounds like it was a lot of fun, according to some of the fine workers I talked to at the deli. Look out for the 2012 event to happen in September.
- See the entire Mugshot Monday Facebook gallery at www.MugshotMonday.com, or read more posts like it on this blog
Official 2012 Honda CR-V Game Day Commercial - “Matthew’s Day Off” Extended Version
Haha! Really well done. “Matthew? Matthew? Matthew?”
Ski tracks and sun today at Theodore Wirth Park — Minneapolis. Beautiful winter day.
Trying ‘Back in Black’ by 21st Amendment Brewery — it’s a Black IPA and it is very good. Kinda sharp with a side of hops and good flavor all around. You can’t see the artwork on the back of the can, but you should take a look because it’s really great. That is my refrigerator door in the background.
For another super good Black IPA, try New Glarus Black Top. Note: You’ll need to go to Wisconsin to get some.
See more of my beer reviews, including more from 21st Amendment Brewery.
Live-Pinning on Pinterest?!
Fyi: I’m currently live-pinning this #smbmsp event on Pinterest.
— Karl Pearson-Cater (@bigboxcar) January 27, 2012
You know, this was a joke. I tweeted it after panelist David Brauer deadpanned that his favorite social media site was Pinterest when asked.
But the more I think about it, I’m actually going to have to try it out. Here’s the Pinterest board I’ll be “live-pinning” at if you want to follow it. I just need to think of the event to try it out on. Ideas? Also, how pissed off do you think my Pinterest followers will get?
When I started using my own voice, my career took off.
Minnesota Public Radio Marketplace Tech Reporter John Moe, on a panel at Social Media Breakfast #43, “Public Media”.
For some reason, that quote stuck in my head after the panel discussion over at TPT headquarters today. And it had nothing to do with social media. Kind of.
It was a short story about Moe literally using his own voice for his work. Moe was saying how early in his career he tried to sound like the stereotypical “Public Radio” voice and it sounded terrible (think Saturday Night Live skit). When he decided to use his own voice, things started working out really well.
Of course, that’s an eloquent way to illustrate how if you use your own voice in social media (or on your blog, or at your work, or in your poetry, or in your art), you will succeed. Very nicely put. But sometimes, easy to forget.
Social Media Breakfast #43 speakers ready to roll today. David Brauer taking a pic of me taking a pic!
Left to right: John Moe, Julia Schrenkler, David Brauer, John Daenzer, Marry Lahammer & Johnathan Kealing
I’ve taken this photo before. Can’t help myself. Morning winter sunrise in downtown Minneapolis.
Huh. So, maybe some Republicans don’t want Newt to win? Seems like a stretch, but this is currently the top spot on DrudgeReport.com tonight: “INSIDER: GINGRICH REPEATEDLY INSULTED REAGAN”
Screengrab above. “Embedded” tweet below:
Holy! I didn’t know Twitter recently made embedding tweets on blogs posts SUPER EASY NOW! Very nice: play-this.org/2011/12/13/emb…
— Karl Pearson-Cater (@bigboxcar) January 25, 2012
Very nice! Links are clickable and the author name is clickable. You can even follow the user from this embedded tweet. (Kinda overkill, but that’s okay.)
And it’s SUPER easy! See the text “Embed this Tweet” on the screenshot above? That’s from the pernalink for the tweet. Click on that link and you get the code.
I learned about it when I found this post — there are *much* clearer instructions on how to do this: “Embedding Tweets is Easier Than Ever With Latest Twitter Update”.
Note: The Tumblr Dashboard destroys the embedded tweet styles (of course), so you’ll need to view this post on my blog to see how it looks
I did a little experimenting and it looks like if you are embedding a @reply then the original tweet shows up above it. Brilliant.
These are suggested alternatives from Youtube.com for my username because “bigboxcar” was taken. I know! BIGBOXCARIFY!!! Eh, pass.
Back when I set up my youtube channel (bigboxcarkpc), the username “bigboxcar” had already been registered and was being used. But today, I noticed the user had closed the account! So I went to register it.
But you can’t register a name of a “closed” account on YouTube. How dumb is that?
According to a LEVEL 18 YouTube.com Commenter:
Okay. Apparently I can try to contact the owner who can “give” me the username. But that seems impossible if the account is closed. Whatevs then.
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.
In an important move, bit torrent portal The Pirate Bay announces a new category of torrents called Physibles, focusing on sharing 3-D printing designs – affirmation for these 7 platforms changing the future of collaborative creation. (via curiositycounts)
>WHoa<.
