Just got back from a 3 day, 4 city business trip. ZDS contracted me to go and look at some customer sites, so I flew to Houston Tuesday night, then to Tyler (TX) Wednesday night, then drove to Dallas Thursday afternoon. There, I met someone who has a mutual interest in one of the companies I’m advising, Hypersites, and went to a really good TexMex place for dinner. Early Friday, I flew to Chicago to see another ZDS customer, then flew home to Denver that night. It was quite a long week. It’s good to be home.

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So, a few weeks ago I showed off a pet project of mine called earfeeder to a few people here in Boulder. As of today 200,000+ people have checked it out. The Internets! Amazing. My blog on earFeeder has more details on how this happened.

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We got our first real snow yesterday here in Boulder. It started around 2pm and let up around 9pm. Looks like about 5 inches to me. So much for fall…

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I run the kids to Broomfield alot in the morning. When you get back to Boulder, highway 36 turns into 28th street right around Colorado. How long have they been working on this area of the road? They put in new medians, huge walls on the side of the road, new fancy decorative foliage in the median, yada yada. That went on for what seemed like forever. Now, they’re doing more stuff in that area. Digging up the road, repaving, blocking traffic for 5 minutes at a time. I wish they would just shut the whole thing down for a month and get it done, once and for all.

Yesterday, I met two guys from Yahoo that have been out in Silicon Valley and just relocated here. I had just gotten out of this crazy traffic, which delayed me 10 minutes. They were like “traffic. whatever.” True, I guess. But man, this is Boulder. Let’s build a bypass already. Most of these people are just going way north anyway.

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Teleportation (it’s now been done with both light, just recently, matter) sure would make life easier, wouldn’t it? The initial applications of something like this would be to move information securely from point to point. But what if it could move you? Sure would change the economics of face to face business and put entire industries out of business.

Yes, I know I’m a geek. That’s why I send money to the Planetary Society each year also. What if…..

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Somehow, last week was a big public eye week for me. The number of readers on my ColoradoStartups blog is into the hundreds now, and one of my posts showed up (with permission) in the Boulder Daily Camera this week (I had no idea until someone showed it to me since I don’t read traditional media anymore). Companies I’ve covered are now quoting the blog (cool) as if I were Newsweek or something.

I also spoke at the Boulder New Technology Meetup on my earFeeder pet project and video of that showed up in a couple of places.

I’m appearing on the Today Show tomorrow morning. Sucker. The rest is true anyway.

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I played on two mens tennis leagues this summer. Both leagues are in the 4.5 level, which is generally full of x-college tennis players in their twenties, thirties or forties.

The main league is the USTA adult league. There are about 12 guys on a team, and for each match you have to win 3 out of 5 matches (which consist of two singles and 3 doubles) to win the overall team match. We went undefeated this year (8-0) in our division (north metro Denver) and lost a heartbreaker in the state championships (3-2) in the final, finishing second in the state. We won at this level in 2004 and traveled to sectionals in Utah where six state champions compete to go to nationals (often in Hawaii).

The secondary league is called CTA Twilight. Twilight has smaller teams (8 guys or so) and each team match is two singles and one doubles, in a best two out of three match format. Our team won our divison and played in the state finals just this past Friday and Saturday. We went 3-0 and won the state championship for the twilight league.

I also played on two mixed doubles teams this summer, but neither of them advanced to the state championship.

Finally, I played in four tournaments, and won one of them.

I was pretty happy with my personal overall “competitive” match record this year, which was 18 wins and 9 losses (18-9).

At the end of each year, the state adjusts players ratings based on their results. I’ve been rated at 5.0 in the past, and I really don’t like playing at that level because there are not as many players, the tournaments are smaller, etc. This year, based on my record, I shouldn’t have much to worry about.

All of the major tournaments and league play are over at this point, so it’s time once again to put the gear away until late March. Oh well, let’s go skiing. Wait, it’s still 80 degrees. Hmmm…

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