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Entries Tagged as 'Travel'

The geographic center of baseball

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve never heard of Alex Reisner before today. My gratitude to Adam Kalsey for the link. I just now realized that Reisner’s post is from March of 2006, almost 2 years ago. But this is timeless, not timely. What a marvelous, brief examination of history and its forces: Baseball Geography and Transportation. Effectively annotated with [...]

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Tags: Data · Everything · Maps · Travel · Visualization

Great service at Kiantis Pizza & Pasta Bar in Santa Cruz

September 25th, 2006 · No Comments

I can’t find a restaurant website, so the Yahoo! Local entry will have to do: Kiantis Pizza & Pasta Bar turned out to be an inspired (if totally fortunate) choice for dinner on Saturday night. Our walkable choices were not so inspiring, so we risked children’s fatigue levels and drove to downtown Santa Cruz — [...]

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Tags: Restaurant · Travel

Fun on the beach

July 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Many thanks to Phil, Mark, and the team at Creative Good for an outstanding weekend in San Diego. Great mix of people, mostly new to me, and the Team Wahine surfing clinic was a great way to start a very hot Sunday.

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Tags: Everything · Travel

United we fall

February 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Just a quick rant: will United Airlines please hurry up and go out of business, and free up the air routes from San Francisco to someone hungrier? Maybe I should be careful what I wish for, but I’m ready to pursue the unknown over the known… and for a relatively cautious person like myself, that [...]

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Tags: Travel

Visiting NYC for Media Summit February 8-9

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m looking forward to attending the 2006 Media Summit – New York on February 8th and 9th in New York City. I’ll be representing CNET Networks on a Thursday panel, “Internet Video, Advertising & Marketing: The Next Generation of Consumer Reach.” Between CNET Video (RSS feed) and CNET News.com Video (RSS feed) and all that’s [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Media · Travel