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That Stupid FB Notice

By rickColosimo / June 16, 2020
Someone I know posted this on FB. Just in case Notice:..An attorney advised us to post this. The violation of privacy can be punished by law. NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must...
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Memorial Day 2020

By rickColosimo / May 22, 2020
Memorial Day Celebration Playlist I’ve gotten to the point where I no longer feel bad for gently correcting people who want to say “thanks for your service” to me on Memorial Day. I remind them tha...
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House Rules

By rickColosimo / May 21, 2020
This post on Slate has an effective clickbaity title. I’m just going to comment that I think it was instigated by people who don’t let you win all the money in the middle on Monopoly when you land ...
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Lost Spring

By rickColosimo / April 11, 2020
This is something I came up with to express one aspect of how we’ve all put lives on hold in different ways. Hey, let’s get together; let’s get a drink and meet; Hey, let’s get together; I really t...
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Did not find

By rickColosimo / March 11, 2020
NB: Now that some time has passed and we’ve moved from the Mueller Report to the House Investigation to the Impeachment to the vote, this is not a “hot” topic but one just about the nature of proof...
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iPhone App ideas

By rickColosimo / March 9, 2020
So I’ve had this idea for an iPhone seismograph app that a person could use on a rollercoaster or taxi ride on the FDR or regional jet flight. Here are a couple apps I’ve come across that are in th...
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Collar stay punch

By rickColosimo / March 2, 2020
I saw this guitar pick tool in the Uncommon Goods website some time ago. Around that time, I had the idea (since I don’t play guitar) of a similar tool that would punch out collar stays for dress s...
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Occam’s Safety Razor

By rickColosimo / February 27, 2020
Occam’s Safety Razor Occam’s Safety Razor: when you don’t know what the answer is, start with something that almost certainly can’t hurt. Everyone talks about Occam’s Razor, usually getting it wron...
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Library v Amazon

By rickColosimo / February 24, 2020
At some point I looked over my Amazon wish list and saw a lot of books that I wanted to read but wasn’t sure I really wanted to keep for a long time. So I wondered if there was a tool that would tr...
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Personalized amusement park video

By rickColosimo / February 16, 2020
This idea falls into my “Orphans” category: projects or ideas that I find interesting but that I know are really low on my priority list. I figure it’s more fun and helpful to write about them and ...
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Cruel World

By rickColosimo / August 4, 2019
The publish date on this article describing this video is September 2017. I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it until now, August 2019. It was a bad idea. I made it 45 seconds in, about 1...
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Slight compliment

By rickColosimo / July 20, 2019
Understated compliment of the day – He was no knucklehead: he actually won the Nobel prize for physics.” At about 26:10 of this interview.
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Blue Horseshoe Loves Bloomberg

By rickColosimo / July 16, 2019
I’m impressed by the restraint over at Bloomberg. Justin Bachman wrote this entire article about tracking private jets to unearth pending deals, and no one mentioned Bud Fox. If you can’t place the...
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Letters

By rickColosimo / July 1, 2019
Constant stream of good ideas Is there anything this guy does that isn’t a stellar idea? When I grow up, I want to put ideas out into the world at his pace.
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QOTD – 11-Aug-2017

By rickColosimo / August 11, 2017
A lot of pharmaceuticals were invented using some process that on first hearing sounded pretty stupid. Trouble is, a lot of stupid things start out pretty stupid, too. Straight Dope
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Leading from the front

By rickColosimo / July 27, 2017
Saw a law school friend’s post on why trans soldiers should be serving, and some idiot friend of his was complaining about it. I was tempted: Okay, as likely one of the few straight male [disclosur...
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Respect is earned

By rickColosimo / July 19, 2017
The first rule of leadership is lead by example. I heard it in so many forms during my 5 year in the Army, I can’t possibly footnote it. Recently, Kellyanne Conway said she was suprised at the disr...
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Supreme Court nominee

By rickColosimo / July 17, 2017
Yep, this is an old post. The world has moved on. Supreme Court nominee President Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. I’d like to read some of his opinions before I decide. Does...
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The road less traveled

By rickColosimo / February 3, 2017
ca. 2010: In his “Four Roads” post, Seth Godin outlines four possible models of thinking about your career/job progression and experiences. Unstated, but this leitmotif of experience, value, and ar...
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Singing songs and carrying signs

By rickColosimo / August 29, 2016
Evidently some dude’s protesting the national anthem. Don’t know who he is, don’t care, and doesn’t matter whether he’s protesting poverty, race-based policing, gay marriage, immigration, or the la...
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A happy moment

By rickColosimo / June 11, 2016
A happy moment My happy place looks like Waimea Bay, on the north shore of Oahu, running around the bay in the middle of the evening, with a full moon over the water and just the sound of the waves...
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Adolf’s downfall

By rickColosimo / May 26, 2016
Sometimes, the solution is right in front of you. I’m a science fiction fan; I can still recall the set of four or five vertical rotating racks of paperbacks at the Paddy Hill Library. I read most ...
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Autism in my life

By rickColosimo / May 19, 2016
For those of you who didn’t know: My older son has what I describe as mild to moderate autism. He’s happy; he smiles; he talks; he reads; he does math – add, subtract, multiply, and learning to div...
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How much should I save?

By rickColosimo / May 12, 2016
How much should you save? That’s a very good question, to which the easy answer is simply “as much as you can and then a little bit more.” As I’ve written over on the page for this new tool, the sa...
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Which partners in what crime

By rickColosimo / March 9, 2016
What’s the deal with the phrase “partners in crime?” I am a single dad who works in a small law firm and lives in a family-laden suburb of NYC, so my dating interactions mostly come from online int...
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Dating-quiz

By rickColosimo / February 23, 2016
Do you like cats? Do you love kids? Do you have a personal relationship with god? Are you smarter than me? Yes, that third one’s a bit of a trick question. The fourth one excludes the middle part o...
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Data is and are plural

By rickColosimo / February 11, 2016
Data is inherently plural, even as I use “is” as the verb. This short post is about the most radioactive place in NY state. I find these explorations of the edges and outliers interesting. It remin...
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What is dirt?

By rickColosimo / December 22, 2015
What is dirt? From this article on kitty litter, we learn that: it’s strip-mined dirt that is transported overland via combustion engines and ends up in landfill where it never biodegrades. But isn...
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JFK v ISIS

By rickColosimo / November 18, 2015
The article “What ISIS Really Wants” was good; it was also long, which makes me wonder whether enough people will read it. I’m not sure that ISIS will choose any path that doesn’t force us to kill ...
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Small features

By rickColosimo / November 5, 2015
Building a big Internet company is hard, and I guess not everything can be earth-shattering. Sometimes, developments underwhelm: who at twitter thought that “hearts and likes” vs. “stars and favori...
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Bravery is for you

By rickColosimo / November 2, 2015
“Bravery is for other people,” Seth Godin writes. He talks about how that just ain’t true. We’re supposed to make the choices that don’t require our kids, or someone else’s, to grow up to be Audie ...
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Experiment – drunken haiku

By rickColosimo / June 26, 2015
I am walking down the street, Chelsea market ahead of me What was that place I was last in? How many apple dollars are at risk right now? — ca. 2012 The secret of drunken haiku is that you don’t ha...
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Poem #3

By rickColosimo / June 19, 2015
#3 This vase doesn’t belong here. These flowers should be near you, instead of still with me. I wanted to plant the wine bottle in your apartment like a magic bean, sprouting lush growth, clearing ...
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Do the math.

By rickColosimo / June 12, 2015
Some interesting math to note in this article comparing the cost of saving vs. borrowing for college. Gotta love math. Save for your kids, or they’ll be even more broke than you might fear you’ll b...
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Places to grow up

By rickColosimo / May 5, 2015
Okay, so I haven’t read through the methodology yet, but the data from this visualization and article in the NYT sure do look interesting. Basically, I should either stay in Bergen County or move t...
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My kids live in the future.

By rickColosimo / March 4, 2014
Thinking about my kids’ world. It’s already different from mine. Answering machines and voicemail came when I was in grade school and are almost dead. Long distance isn’t. It’s easier than ever to ...
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Twitter remixed

By rickColosimo / August 15, 2013
This article provides a new and more interesting take on twitter. It’s like a present-tense exonet, very “now” oriented rather than library of knowledge oriented. I’ve stopped much twitter viewing ...
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Heat transfer of big ice cubes

By rickColosimo / August 12, 2013
So big ice cubes aren’t necessarily new news, but the ad below which piqued my interest is recent. Ice is cold; your drink is warm. If ice cools drinks by taking heat and melting, then can these wo...
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What I’m looking for

By rickColosimo / August 12, 2013
You’re fire, a black market bottle rocket bought from the back of a trunk from a Pedro’s “South of the Border” bag. I’m hoping for instant girlfriend, the one who I meet and that’s just it — it sta...
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Every day is Pearl Harbor Day

By rickColosimo / August 9, 2013
On Pearl Harbor Day last December, I came across someone who suggested that America needed something to wake us up and get us back on our feet. The reference was to Pearl Harbor Day and how it brou...
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What is optimism?

By rickColosimo / May 20, 2013
Someone asked me recently about being a dad, and here was my response. I think my main goal is to help them really internalize the trick of finding the upside instead of the downside, with a health...
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Where the bad moods went

By rickColosimo / April 24, 2013
Someone once told me that she hadn’t seen me in a bad mood. (It was after only four weeks of knowing me, so maybe there’s a sample size problem.) I said that something had annoyed me the week befor...
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Flipping freemium on its head

By rickColosimo / April 14, 2013
I recently read a post that pushed “freemium” companies to start charging right away — to put the paid offering on the table to see who will buy how much at what price. It’s good advice, of course,...
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World Autism Awareness Day 2013

By rickColosimo / April 2, 2013
Today is World Autism Awareness day. My Facebook profile picture is my 8yo son Dylan, showing you, and me, what he thinks of autism. I imagine it’s something along the lines of “I just want to do w...
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Incentives are sneaky

By rickColosimo / January 7, 2013
File this under “incentives work, so think about them before you unleash the unintended consequences.” Alternatively, simplified mental models fail to capture the richness of actual reality and are...
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My fear looks like this

By rickColosimo / January 4, 2013
I wrote this back in August 2012. It needed to sit a while to take the edge off. I couldn’t even read it to edit it. -Rick Recognizing it: I just watched the Seattle Children’s Hospital “Stronger” ...
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What does fear look like?

By rickColosimo / January 4, 2013
We’re all afraid of things. Some real – heart attacks; some distant – terrorists; some vague – the lizard brain’s resistance to change; some too real and terrible to ever really be acknowledged. Th...
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Explaining Poems

By rickColosimo / November 16, 2012
This is truly one of my favorite quotes: I can explain all the poems that ever were invented — and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet. Humpty Dumpty
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Dating advice for men and women

By rickColosimo / July 24, 2012
In this post on how great architects get stuff built, (reminiscent of the Real Artists Ship quote from Steve Jobs and Seth’s take on shipping), Seth remarks that brilliant can’t long co-exist with ...
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Bouncing off the bottom

By rickColosimo / July 24, 2012
Seth Godin notes that when the first thing you do is measure a new opportunity against the list of why you can’t, then the list is the most important thing in your life. An economist would call thi...
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Rooney’s Law

By rickColosimo / June 28, 2012
I foresee another tribute to Clarke’s Law coming…. Sufficiently extensive experience is indistinguishable from cynicism. No, Andy Rooney didn’t make that up; I did. He was the most curmudgeonly nam...
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Can I spot fake smiles?

By rickColosimo / June 6, 2012
Smiles popped into my head today. This paragraph (refs omitted): Autism and Asperger syndrome are diagnosable developmental disorders, but autistic-like personality traits are continuously distribu...
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Happy Valentine’s Day

By rickColosimo / February 14, 2012
Thinking about my day today…. Felt zero feelings for someone — where do those things go? I guess there’s no conservation of emotion (it hasn’t even all turned to hate, disgust, or sadness); Valenti...
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The past is a foreign country

By rickColosimo / August 25, 2011
It’s like I had an imaginary friend for the last 16 years and just found out she wasn’t real. All my memories are tainted, suspect. Who knows what was real and what wasn’t? And I could drive myself...
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Don’t lead with your armpit

By rickColosimo / August 4, 2011
Social proof aside, someone told me about the plot of “Just Go With It”: Adam Sandler makes up an ex-wife. As a single dad, I can say that that might be about as smart/attractive as saying I used t...
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A recipe for …?

By rickColosimo / August 4, 2011
Tom said: What you need is someone who is interesting, dynamic, can handle your craziness, and is not psycho. That’s a tall order. This will be on the test. 🙂
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Who comes up with this stuff?

By rickColosimo / June 8, 2011
Here’s the Netflix blurb for a movie called “The Switch:” Still single and increasingly attuned to the cacophony of her biological clock, 40-something Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) decides that if she ...
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A regret I don’t want

By rickColosimo / June 2, 2011
Item 1 on this list of deathbed regrets is living the life you want, and there’s a great quote that refers to the idea of being “fully committed.” I’ve not done a great job of that over the past se...
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Observation, 15 May 2011

By rickColosimo / May 22, 2011
I was at the Go The Distance bike event, shortly after conquering the crappy feelings that glommed on to last year’s event. This year, I participated and biked 50 miles. It was literally my sixth r...
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Born into pessimism

By rickColosimo / April 8, 2011
Sometimes, life is too fatalistic for my tastes. It’s a fundamentally anti-American thing to say that we are too molded by the past, that our destinies are rough-hewn before we have control of our ...
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How not to give investing advice

By rickColosimo / March 13, 2011
Having complained about non-lawyers giving legal advice, I’ll briefly rant about non-finance people giving investment advice. A quote I won’t attribute to the author: Common advice for personal fin...
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Burning: flags vs books

By rickColosimo / February 18, 2011
I recently saw a question asking “Which is worse: flag burning or book burning?” My answer is definitely books, as in not even close for me. My thoughts on the flag go back to some Army experiences...
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Room Service

By rickColosimo / February 11, 2011
Oatmeal with blueberries, fresh off the vine. The wrongest metaphor is pearls before swine. A stick of cinnamon in black coffee I see. Can I lick the raspberry jam off of your cheek? Tell me you mi...
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Set people up for success

By rickColosimo / January 28, 2011
Ever feel like the deck was stacked against you, that your boss or wife or boyfriend had somehow made it impossible for you to succeed? In the Army, we called that being set up for failure. It spro...
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How to be a friend

By rickColosimo / January 25, 2011
Seth wrote a nice post called “I’ve got your back.” It reminded me instantly of two very different posts I’ve written that are about the same thing: needing a ranger buddy and character. What do al...
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Eating the elephant, not the fries

By rickColosimo / January 25, 2011
Peter Shankman is on a quest to move himself to 10% bodyfat this year. He’s already thinking about his remodeling his diet with some serious changes. In switching my diet, I’ve tried to make only o...
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Three small words for 2011

By rickColosimo / January 24, 2011
Chris Brogan wrote a different sort of New Year’s resolution post, focusing on three words as major themes for the year. Everyone else seems torn between making resolutions and saying that resoluti...
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Character is for when it counts

By rickColosimo / January 6, 2011
The NYT can’t understand corporate finance [link to come; post underway], but they can do headlines: “Hijacker Overpowered on Norway-Turkey Flight.” I guess we did all learn from the heroes on Unit...
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Planning’s dark side

By rickColosimo / December 31, 2010
One more reason being a great planner isn’t always so good: If only she’d known that finished is the new perfect. If only she’d known that planning is the gateway drug to procrastination. From Scot...
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Learn by expressing yourself

By rickColosimo / December 30, 2010
It is certainly true that what a person is determines how he writes or speaks. But the converse is also true, at least in part. In the struggle to give clear and natural and forceful and sometimes ...
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Acid test for the future Mrs C.

By rickColosimo / December 16, 2010
Are you truly committed – or just curious? Are you truly committed – or just involved? Are you truly committed – or just concerned? Are you truly committed – or just interested? Are you truly commi...
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First, think clearly

By rickColosimo / November 29, 2010
Quotation of the Day (HT Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day): As your first object is to make yourself understood, the worst mistake you can make is to be misunderstood. This can come about through igno...
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Persistence

By rickColosimo / November 23, 2010
“And hanging crooked above his desk is a cheap black frame that contains an inspirational quote that has been attributed to Calvin Coolidge. Under the heading PRESS ON, it reads:” Nothing in the wo...
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Don’t hoard quotes

By rickColosimo / November 22, 2010
I recently saw this Lifehacker post on Quotabl.es, which is a standalone website that will collect and keep quotes that you like. It allows for tagging quotes and the [now-obligatory] ability to sh...
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At least don’t fool yourself

By rickColosimo / November 15, 2010
A useful question came across my screen this morning, one that is important if not absolutely critical as I think about some of the decisions I have to make over the next several months. My odd sou...
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Follow-up on diet app

By rickColosimo / November 13, 2010
Here’s an interesting take on my idea for an evidence-based diet: an app that spits out recipes based on ingredients you feed it. (I should really edit that sentence; it sounds like I made a pun on...
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Evidence-based diet – in a box

By rickColosimo / November 13, 2010
This fancy meal in a box gives me an interesting idea about how to launch the idea in a simpler version. Rather than go whole-hog to the full meal preparation and individualized diet => menu route,...
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What is the “point of Rick?”

By rickColosimo / November 12, 2010
I just saw a little contest on Appstorm relating to mac/iphone/ipod skins. (If you didn’t know, these are essentially decals/decal sets that decorate or protect your device. But “skin” generally me...
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Deep-fried hot dog & bacon

By rickColosimo / November 12, 2010
So I saw this amazing menu item at the Conch Shack in Key West on Friday night of Labor Day weekend: bacon-wrapped, deep fried hot dog. That’s the sort of food that screams “eat me” on a menu, like...
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Happy Veterans’ Day

By rickColosimo / November 11, 2010
Today is a day I treat much like Memorial Day, with the difference that I’m not uncomfortable about receiving greetings today. (Memorial Day is for fallen servicemembers; I’m not in that category n...
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QuickSilver fix-it tip

By rickColosimo / November 9, 2010
I recently started with my new MacBook Air, aka the Airbook. I have long been hearing about mythical programs like QuickSilver and OmniFocus (both of which I use now) and even DevonThink (which I’m...
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More orphan ideas in the wild

By rickColosimo / November 7, 2010
Seth Godin recently reported on the shipping of two ipad apps triggered or inspired or at least encouraged by earlier posts of his. I’ve written before how my own growing lists of orphan ideas were...
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Quote – my writing style

By rickColosimo / November 5, 2010
I wonder if there’s a WordPress plugin to count all the parentheses in my blog posts. Quotation of the Day: A picturesque talent will express itself in concrete images; a genial nature will smile i...
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Pseudo-quote on getting it wrong

By rickColosimo / November 3, 2010
So I was just watching a video of “some guy” (deliberately vague now because I’m going to sort of make fun of him in a minute) talking about how he uses Scrivener on his Mac for writing. But he pro...
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What networking isn’t

By rickColosimo / July 15, 2010
What networking isn’t: asking people for cards when they haven’t expressed interest in your services, or blowing an opportunity to showcase your talent. For example, a web/logo designer took my car...
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Awesome iPad app demo/mockup

By rickColosimo / May 28, 2010
So there’s been a lot of press on the iPad + Velcro ™ video. And it’s well done, insightful, and mildly amusing. The shame of it is that it is flanked by an absolutely awesome video from the same f...
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Are you a thought leader?

By rickColosimo / May 28, 2010
At some point, and I’m not sure I can remember why, I started subscribing to Scott Ginsberg’s blog. About now, you’re thinking “Who?” Scott. The Nametag Guy? Oh, now you remember. *That* you’ve see...
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Followup: costs of poor sleep

By rickColosimo / May 21, 2010
A recent National Geographic article explored sleep and some of the problems associated with lack of sleep. Lack of sleep can be dangerous: … Harvard’s Charles Czeisler. He notes that going without...
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Follow-up: evidence based diets

By rickColosimo / May 14, 2010
This visualization (far less interactive than the word “interactive” implies, IMHO) attempts to display the quality of evidence connecting various nutritional supplements to the ailments they’re su...
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Email tips? Really?

By rickColosimo / April 27, 2010
One of my favorite authors, Seth Godin, recently posted another little list of email tips. Of course, they’re pretty much all useful and accurate. I mean, it’s hard to write a “tip” that is flat-ou...
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When don’t you need an app?

By rickColosimo / April 11, 2010
Confession: I bought an iPad, the smallest wifi-only version. I wanted something that was more functional than my Blackberry Pearl but with a more convenient form factor than my laptop for use duri...
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Why sharing orphan ideas works

By rickColosimo / February 24, 2010
This BoingBoing post by Cory Doctorow briefly introduces a site/tool created as a result of a tweet he sent just a few months ago. Mekki and a friend ran with an idea I tweeted last October: “Who’s...
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Fauxtivation

By rickColosimo / January 27, 2010
What is Fauxtivation? It’s hiding the ball from your customers to try to create a motivation to engage with your company that they wouldn’t naturally have, i.e., don’t need and don’t want. Example:...
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Definitions: gwitter

By rickColosimo / November 9, 2009
gwitter A Gwitter is someone who ghost-writes twitter updates for a celebrity who (A) can’t be bothered, (B) can’t be trusted not to go “off-message,” or (C) can’t type as many as 140 characters on...
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Memories on TV?

By rickColosimo / September 3, 2009
Quick note: watching an episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay. He’s at Phil’s Fish Market in Monterey, CA (technically Moss Landing). Pam looked at it and said, “hey, isn’t that the place we used to...
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Snacks compete by selling less

By rickColosimo / August 21, 2009
One day at the grocery store, I was thinking about competition and marketing while walking down the cookie aisle. I saw the 100-calorie snack packs (a section that is now surprisingly large for a s...
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Ready-Fire-Review: Anagram

By rickColosimo / August 5, 2009
Anagram is a small piece of software that almost falls into the category that we used to describe in my Silicon Valley law days as “a feature masquerading as a company.” Many of those companies wen...
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trendwatching.com: FOREVERISM

By rickColosimo / June 21, 2009
trendwatching.com’s June 2009 Trend Briefing covering FOREVERISM. I like the trendwatching briefings: they’re actually insightful rather than wishful thinking; they seek to recognize trends rather ...
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Way cool photos of NYC

By rickColosimo / April 27, 2009
NYC street photo with only children I really liked these très cool pictures, photoshop montages of NYC streetcorner photos. Not time lapse but time-space compression photography. It’s a technique I...
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Autism Awareness Day on CBS

By rickColosimo / April 10, 2009
Dylan was on CBS’s The Early Show last Thursday. Some additions: when he was in a home program, the total cost was $2k a week; now it’s $2k a month on top of what he gets at school. Dylan attends R...
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Logo contest on crowdSPRING

By rickColosimo / April 10, 2009
We’re running a logo contest on crowdSPRING for a social network-based site serving the ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) community. Besides wanting to see a greater variety of designs from differen...
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NYT sidesteps Godwin’s Law

By rickColosimo / April 10, 2009
Today’s NYT has a story about a former Capitol Hill staffer who is a “dissenter” and “skeptic” on climate change issues. He might even be a “misinformer.” Congratulations to the NYT for breaking ou...
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Eat ice cubes to lose weight

By rickColosimo / January 21, 2009
This article on the caloric math behind drinking ice water to lose weight reminded me of something I wrote a number of years ago. My friend John was at Comedy Central doing on-air promos at the tim...
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Evidence-based food preparation

By rickColosimo / November 14, 2008
After reading this post on Springwise (a site/feed I enjoy very much), I realized that I needed to post another orphaned idea. People have seen a number of “prepared food” offerings, where a compan...
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Allegheny College Gets WSJ Mention

By rickColosimo / November 7, 2008
In this article on lawyer/presidents (or president/lawyers, if you prefer), the WSJ‘s Law Blog notes that William McKinley, the 25th President, attended Allegheny College (“briefly attended,” accor...
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Applet wanted – $50 bounty

By rickColosimo / September 3, 2008
Wanted: a work-for-hire (so it can be released under a CC license for non-commercial use, exact license TBD) software applet, either for an iPhone or for a Fujitsu laptop (running Vista). Feature: ...
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Fighting H-bombs with C-notes

By rickColosimo / September 2, 2008
I read somewhere (here’s one reference and one that makes it both positive and negative, and another – any other favorites?) of someone referring to the not-so-casual, i.e., intentional, dropping o...
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Private recommendations?

By rickColosimo / August 24, 2008
Why don’t recommendation systems create, or allow for, a way to post recommendations that respects poster privacy? For example, I may want to post something about a doctor that I use but not want t...
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Refrigerator storage & planning

By rickColosimo / April 28, 2008
I like the Unclutterer blog because it’s short and to the point, reducing clutter in its posts as well as your life. This article describes the author’s approach to removing food clutter, in the fo...
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