Sports Archive

Way More Useful than a Segway

Yahoo is such a crazy huge platform that I didn't blog about my Dean Kamen interview that made the site's front page on Friday. But a few friends didn't see it or hear anything about this amazing project, so I decided to embed it below. Below that is a much, much longer clip about Kamen's work with a non-profit called First. I'd wager both are more impactful than Kamen's last invention, the far more hyped Segway. (Although he addresses that too in the clip.) The interviews were a last minute get at D, and arguably the best stuff we did while we were there. It was too bad so many people left before the last day of the conference and missed Kamen's presentation on stage. (Fun fact: list to how insanely stopped up I am in my voice over! I was so sick in these clips!)

Seeking My Own "Digital Wonderland"

Thought my life was calming down post-book launch? Wrong. My husband and I are also buying a house! (Thanks Web 2.0!) We should be closing on it this week. The lenders have taken their good sweet time dotting every i and crossing every t on every loan so they are just now getting to ours.

A flood of money is about to leave our bank account for the downpayment (yes, you need those again to buy a house in San Francisco) and closing costs and moving costs. But we're nestling a little away for what we hope will be our own "Digital Wonderland." The phrase is borrowed from my book, chapter 6, "Return of the King." Marc Andreessen used it to describe how he pimped out his new home last summer. Mine will obviously be nowhere near as pimp. In fact, it will likely take us a while to afford the dream.