Archives

Hooked on Terraria

[from an August 2015 mommy blog post, with minor edits] We’re hooked – totally and completely hooked on this game, as evidenced by the fact that the highlight of our weekend so far has been killing the Wall of Flesh as a family.  We did it first in our oldest son’s game (after two weeks […]

Read More

Digital hoarding

When we moved from the Philadelphia area to Chicagoland late  last year, we moved into a house that’s about half the size of the one we left behind.  Our new place is a sweet little Dutch Colonial built in 1924, and it’s been almost completely redone inside and out.  But the reality is, I think […]

Read More

Art, science, & pasta

Today I came across a really appetizing interesting site, which is an excerpt from a book called Pasta by Design, by George L. Legendre. What is so wonderful about it – to me at least – is that it brings together the math which produces the curves in the pasta, the technical reproduction of the […]

Read More

Smiling city

This week I was talking to one of the Principals at ZS, helping him to prepare for a client engagement.  His consulting team is putting together a proposal regarding the use of iPads for sales enablement.  They are preparing to do ride-alongs with local pharmaceutical reps, and they wanted my help to help them prepare. […]

Read More

Visible joy in 7 minutes

Gamification is a hot topic on SAP’s internal social media channels these days. You have to wonder why enterprise software developers are talking about gaming.  Or, if you’ve ever used enterprise software, maybe you know why – it has to be better than talking about SAP R/3!  A couple of years ago I wrote about […]

Read More