text: Vastly Important Notes: December 2007
  December 2007, those were the days.
  Main | « October 2007 |
  I cancelled my Kindle order, twice.
  Hemingway's six words? Mine are nonfiction.
  PIVMAN (was almost) Legend
  About a year ago my previous company, CoreStreet, was approached by the makers of "I Am Legend". They wanted a PIVMAN handheld to potentially use as a prop in the movie. We lent them the equipment, but never heard whether or not PIVMAN actually made it in to the shoot and survived the editing process.
  I went to see the movie on opening night with a few west-coast CoreStreet expatriates and the goal of cheering wildly for our favorite inanimate prop. (I was going to make a Will Smith joke here, but it wouldn't make sense as he's quite convincingly emotive.) Unfortunately, PIVMAN was replaced by some kind of large, hand-held computer that pretended to be a virus-detecting eyeball scanner. It's a good thing PIVMAN was cut, since the plot called for the replacement scanner to fail in a particularly embarrassing way while sorting out zombies from humans and I'm not sure I would have wanted to be associated with that sort of thing.
  For those of you now hankering for some PIVMAN action, the original comic book (for which I get co-author credits, w00t!) is still a good read as far as corporate marketing brochures go. Maybe the next issue will have zombies.
  I'll be Dr.Dave's guest on the radio and the interwebs in about ten minutes, leaking top secret details about the next major release of EverNote.
  [Update: That was fun. Dr. Dave and "Evil" Steve had some very kind things to say and I hope I didn't scare away too many people. You can listen to the audio here. I'm on hour 2, segment 7 and segment 8. If I sound muffled it's because I'm crouching on my stairs, trying to shield the phone from a horde (pinch? mass? lard?) of shrieking Rachel Ray fans right outside my window. I think she's signing her new book, "Cook 30-Minute Meals With No Talent, Taste or Flair" Was that bitter?]
  USA Today names me least womanly CEO
  None of the women responded like Phil Libin, CEO of Sunnyvale, Calif., technology company EverNote, who remembers riding with his father in a '77 Malibu Classic with a dashboard that seemed to "stretch for miles" with blank holes where the cool gadgets should have been.
  It's actually a neat story and I had fun being a part of it. For the record, I was at a bar in Boston sipping a cosmo when I read the full article.