Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
Seth Godin (via storenvy)
Amit Gupta Needs You: A Willing Donor
Ekta Doshi is in her mid-thirties and has CLL. She’s been searching for a matched donor for quite a while, she was diagnosed in 2011. Tragically, despite a recent 9/10 match, she will not be receiving a transplant. The matched person would not agree to donate, and now Ekta has to continue her…
We don’t hire often, but when we do, we spend at least 7 minutes making an animated GIF for it.
Seriously, working at Photojojo is fun and you and/or your friends should probably do it.
Please reblog this.
Photojojo’s hiring a Full-Stack, Super-friendly Web Developer
Storenvy: Announcement: Now Every Purchase From Storenvy Includes Bacon!
This is an exciting day at Storenvy. We’re thrilled to finally roll back the curtains on what we hope will be our biggest piece of innovation to date.
At Storenvy, we’re constantly looking for ways to raise the bar on our level of customer experience. But the problem is – what could be…
Storenvy Staff Pick: All things Star Wars
This week’s Storenvy Staff Pick is brought to us by Community Support hero, Jessa Clark.
What’s the best thing about Star Wars? High on the long list has got to be that there’s something for everybody.
For me, my Star Wars love started when my dad took me to the theater to see them and I was introduced to the ways of the Force. Take a peek at these sweet finds, and whether you’re a mere padawan or a master Jedi there’s bound to be something you can’t do without.
“Wookiee Rage” By Brian Rood - $175, Chewbacca Necklace from Rapscallion Clothing & Jewelry - $23, AstroStar from YoGizmo - $80, Boba Fett Hoodie from Star Wars Toy Box - $60, Empire Flask - $10, Y for Yoda Wall Art -$30
Storenvy: Welcome Jessa Clark & Claire Smith
Good things always come in pairs and in this case that pair is the one-two Community Support combo of Jessa Clark & Claire Smith!
Jessa originally hails from Portland, Oregon where she spent her first 18 years of her life. Since then she has moved to 5 different states all in the last two…
My new gig!
Sometimes when I can’t sleep, I arrange my apps chromatically.
Our biggest challenge moving back to San Francisco was the dread apartment hunt. Thankfully, we had a sublet arranged for about a month and half after we arrived from our moto-extravaganza, and we used most of that time on the search.
The week before Christmas Amit and I found a tiny apartment in an excellent location.
For the first 3 nights we slept on the floor. We finally got a mattress on the day before we left for a week to spend Christmas at home in Portland.
Now we have to fill the place with everything else.
Yesterday (roadtrip moto-extravaganza day 2) we woke up in Nanuet, NY and headed westward. We spent most of the day making our way through the state of New Jersey, which is actually quite scenic.
It was clear and not too chilly and there were lots of other motorcyclists on the road. We accumulated at least 31 passing salutations from other bikes. People love really love the Ural.
We made it all the way to the Pennsylvania border, which was actually the Delaware river. The bridge was a tiny, one-lane affair.
Our destination was Larken Springs Farm, a beautiful bed and breakfast outside of tiny Hellertown, PA. If you ever happen to be making your way through this area, it it completely worth spending the night just to enjoy the breakfast in the morning. The proprietor, Ken, makes home made granola and jams, plus all sorts of other deliciousness. My favorite was apple caramel, Amit’s was the pear butter.
We spent the night in the room attached to the one in the picture above (our sitting room, which was attached). Waking up to sun coming through the window and roosters was magical.
Today (day 3), we spent the whole afternoon cruising the Pennsylvania country-side and just barely made it to the Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery in time for their last factory tour. It’s in the tiny town of Lititz. We found a dog-friendly inn right on the main street.
Best things - spending the night in a 1886 farmhouse, enjoying the home made breakfast.
Worst things - soooo sore in the arms, shoulders and neck. Steering the Ural is like lifting weights.
Tomorrow we’re hoping to make it all the way into Virginia!
Today was day one of the road trip moto-extravaganza that Amit and I plan to spend the next 3-4 weeks on - we’re headed all the way back to San Francisco, dog in tow. We got our motorcycle endorsements two weeks ago.
This morning we got our butts out of bed at 6:30, and I drove for the first leg (about 4 hours, which in a car would have only taken 2) to a motorcycle shop to get the Ural (our faithful Russian steed) tuned up.
Highlights included making friends with a Bangladeshi gas station owner and a police officer, and lots of honks, grins and thumbs up from passers-by.
Lowlights are sore arms and shoulders.
Funniest part of the day was when Amit at 2/3 of my cheese stick in one bite, then said he’d get me another one.
We woke up in Woodbridge, stopped in New Rochelle, and are spending the night in Nanuet.
To be honest though, the picture above is from day -2 of the trip. Right when we were about to leave, the pup ran away, then Amit lost his wallet, and we couldn’t make it out with enough time to get to our destination before dark, then yesterday was raining.
I got to spend just over 2 weeks at the beginning of September in Hawaii, and it was absolutely magical.
1. Feet in sand at Waikiki
2. Pre-sunrise on Maui
3. Lava rock arches at Volcanoes National Park, Big Island
4. Persistent little gecko friend
5. Sweetest dragon fruit
6. Sunset above the clouds at the highest peak in the Pacific
7. Sugar baby pineapple, the smallest and sweetest a plant produces
8. Amit at the Southern-most point in the US
Taking the M over the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan at Sunset.
kottke.org: More healthcare for women
HUZZAH!
Sandra Fluke writes that the portion of Affordable Care Act that guarantees women access to preventative health services went into effect today.
Women across the country have reason to celebrate tonight. Why? Because on Wednesday, the law that provides American women with access to preventive…
Today is the second time I’ve been caught out when it started storming this summer in NYC (this morning when I left the apartment it was a solid 90 degrees out and sunny). I was stranded in Manhattan at the Union Square L (it stopped running, probably because all the stops flooded) and it took me an hour and a half and venturing onto the M to get back to Williamsburg.
