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In 2008 I joined a small startup, Vitrue, building social media marketing management. It was acquired in 2012 by the Oracle corporation for $300m.

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I've recently begun completely subjectively reviewing the restaurants and bars in Atlanta that I've enjoyed recently.

San Francisco

252 days ago

Since April had a week long break, we decided to go out to California for 9 days.

The park is a lot cooler than its signs are.  Spent the first day or so in Yosemite.

It was dusty.

Pictures don’t do it justice.  You could just sit and stare forever.

So brave.

Next day we got into Napa and went for a balloon ride.

It was a long ways down …

We may or may not have crashed into someone’s vineyard.

Next up we drove over to Sonoma and spent the day visiting wine tastings.

Next up we stopped off in Berkeley.

And then finally made it into SF.  First stop was clearly coffee.

and breakfast…

Next was a day trip down to Palo Alto.  Got to ride one train…

… and then another train

Then finally, back to SF for the rest of the trip.

Had the best Pho ever …

Look closely

And then the last picture, on the last day.

It was an awesome trip.

montreal

293 days ago

Habanero glazed buffalo & SBR grilled wings

380 days ago

So good.

A walk in the woods

410 days ago

We drove up to the Great Smoky Mountains and did a 3-day, 40 mile hike through the wilderness.  It hailed, it rained, the sun shined, and I had a TIL that turkeys can actually fly through the air.

The beginning of the trail at the end of the Smokies

The first descent we had into the valley, heading to the campsite

The low areas – near streams and what not – were actually the more scenic

That chair.  That chair can die in a fire, and the rest of its chair family

Bandanas are super fly

We’ll see you again.  Only 2,076 miles left.

day before dst

436 days ago

popovers

467 days ago

We had these during dinner at BLT on our trip to NY as an appetizer.  They then give you the recipe for them as part of your receipt, so we thought we’d try our hand at making them.

Light and puffy and completely delicious.  The popover pan, as we soon discovered, is actually quite vital to getting them to pop, well, over.

5 days of mass transit

525 days ago

Went to NY for the first time, for no other reason than Delta had tickets for cheap.  Money well spent.

From battery park

That’s the World Trade Center in the back, with people selling 9/11 and FDNY merchandise in front.  There’s some kind of poignant, critical, somber point on society I’m supposed to make here, but I don’t know what it would be.

Yep, thats us. It was cold.

I don’t know what these are for.

This is apparently where Law & Order takes place.

We visited a pretty cool bar, called Swift

Bokeh!

The drinks were delicious though.

Then we visited the Museum of Modern Art.

Then our final evening, thanks to Dave, we got a night at the Waldorf Astoria.  It was pretty nice.  The breakfast buffet was a reasonable $95 per person.

All in all it was an awesome vacation.  We ate a ton of pizza, bagels, and cheesecake… but on the other hand, we walked about 27 miles, so they offset I think.

A dead tree and 800 lights

541 days ago

I think this is the first time I’ve bought a Christmas tree myself.  I wonder how far away people can see it from.

Testing out the lights beforehand

We appear to have put more lights in the middle.

Now in Technicolor

Bokeh