Archive for the ‘Off Topic’ Category

Friday Fun #3

Steve Jobs at Next illustrating his business plan circa 1991.  It’s a great example of logical business plan that didn’t make sense to the larger market.

Friday Fun #2

Pork and Beans by Weezer is a masterful bit of viral marketing since it contains many popular Internet memes. They’ve had 14.3 million views in five months. But it’s really lame that the video is not embeddable.

Edited video with lyrics and names of the memes.

Nike: Take It To the NEXT LEVEL

One of my favorite YouTube videos.  And I don’t even like soccer.

Friday Fun #1

Since having fun is critical, I’ll link to at least one fun video every Friday. If you’re not familiar with the Numa Numa Guy (Gary Brolsma), you need to first watch the video that started the craze.

Numa Numa (19.8 Million views)
Numa Numa - digitally remastered (2 Million views)

Numa Numa Yoda #09 (2 Million views)
And [...]

Temecula Wines, Wineries, and Wine Country

The Insider Scoop has a well written article that covers the history of the Temecula wine region and provides tips for visiting the area.
The Insider Scoop » Blog Archive » The Wine Region Next Door - It may still be summer, but the harvest is well under way in the Temecula Valley (about 60 miles [...]

The Rise and Fall of Twitter

I love this video. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get tired of it.

Top 10 Temecula Wines

I went to the web to ask about people’s favorite Temecula wines on Yahoo! Answers and Wine Library TV Forum. The answers were not particularly helpful. I was a bit bummed for a while and then realized that it was the perfect opportunity to create compelling content. After all, that’s why sites like Squidoo, HubPages, [...]

Hold the Margaritas

OK, this experiment has gotten a little out of control. I’m really happy about the Squidoo lens on the Best Temecula Wineries. Rather than going down the margarita recipe route, I’m going to spend more time promoting this lens. I want other people to vote since I’m curious about their favorite Temecula Wineries.
I copied the [...]

Best Temecula Wineries 2.0

I do some of my best thinking while sleeping and I realized that the first version of the Best Temecula Wineries didn’t have a final tally. I set up a scoring system and calculated the winners. It was exciting to me since I didn’t know how it would turn out. Drum roll please. Ta da!
The [...]

Interactive Web Pages on Squidoo

I created my first lens on a topic different than margaritas to learn the ropes. I had just been to Temecula Wine Country the week before and could now say that I’ve been to all the wineries. I created a Squidoo lens on the Best Temecula Wineries.
Squidoo has a wide variety of modules which caused [...]