The Blog of Burgher Jon

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Cleveland.com published an article last December that could best be paraphrased, “The State of Sauerkraut”.  In between facts about the declining use of Sauerkraut and the introduction of a sauerkraut martini was this nugget of great writing:

To some, sauerkraut is the Liberace of vegetables, a tangy flavor that sparkles way more than it should. To others, it’s the Tom Hanks of condiments, nutritionally reliable and sure to give an injection of pizazz to the heaviest surroundings.

Anyway, on to the purpose of Sauerkraut Sundays… As I go through the week, I use Twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you use Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.

Me

• Yesterday I crossed 1000 Tweets and didn’t mark the occasion. I’m not sure whether to be proud or embarrassed.
• Celebrating a great Pittsburgh sports night is harder in Charlotte… but not impossible.
• I love Monday Mornings, something about fresh coffee and an impossible task makes me feel alive.

National Politics

• I just watched the P-G’s Tea Party story. It’s multi-racial like an episode of Friends http://www.bit.ly/930OKx
• People want to know why I hate Fox News, THIS is why I hate Fox News: http://huff.to/ca0iXS

Personal Technology

• Going to Windows 7 Today! Sianara Vista.
• Apple can’t be the portal that Yahoo wanted to be if they force hardware down our throats. http://bit.ly/bca3bG
• Dropbox App on the Droid could change the way I do business with clients when traveling. http://tcrn.ch/aJiHQv

Pittsburgh

• Mike of Bread Line Blog on how Sid became the face of a football town:http://bit.ly/bI0yoP
• After two weeks of following @RealWizKhalifa, I’ve learned he’s a good rapper, but a common pothead. Hoped for more from the Burgher.
• Southside residential development to have region’s first “net-zero energy” home. 5 blocks from my house! http://bit.ly/cV5Ffd
• Pittsburgh is the 22nd largest metro area with the 45th busiest airport? Why is that? http://bit.ly/aHkYkM

Sports

• 2 Penn State Players in trouble. Football players are ruining my baseball season. http://bit.ly/cmcwIh #Steelers #WeAre
• One of the things I love about baseball is the rules that are almost never used; stealing first, balk, etc…
• Big Ben Quote of the Day: “it’s a very serious matter, one we take serious.” http://bit.ly/cGJauA

Startups

• A startup is like a family, and there’s always a crazy uncle.
• Want proof that having a plan to monetize is important? GroupOn’s valuation is 20% higher then Twitter. http://tcrn.ch/95gmJX

Technology News

• NYT: Twitter Hints About What Developers Should Build — BurgherJon: Until we (Twitter) decide to build it.
• Great Analysis on what Twitter’s new ads will mean to the ecosystem. Kinda optimistic though. http://bit.ly/95vwhU

Unsolicited Advice

• Great men rarely say they are.
• Suggestion to improve basketball: Each game should be a best of 5 of games to 15, like volleyball.
• Favorites have more at stake. Underdogs have more to win. When you can, be a dog.
• Creating a great IT Architecture is at least 50% about making sure everyone uses the same vocabulary.
• If you think fulfillment is two kids and a dogs, you’re not very creative.
• Conversation <> Television

Other (Mostly Humorous Comments from the Week)

• If a butterfly flaps its wing in Japan or a Volcano goes off in Iceland does my flight go to the UK on Monday?
• Gatorade: Processed on equipment that also processes natural ingredients.
• Did he actually go to a barber and say, “Business on the sides and party down the airstrip?” via @JanePitt http://bit.ly/9AnXho
• If I were king for a day: the budget defecit would be illegal and there’d be a salary cap in baseball.
• Obama’s been talking a lot about nukes lately, I hope he doesn’t know something I don’t.
• I’m following @Jesus on Twitter, how did people have faith before Twitter?

For those of you who don’t regularly attend Pirate Games, one of the between inning entertainment items is “The Great Pittsburgh Pierogi Race N’at”.  One of the competitors in the race, is Sauerkraut Saul (pictured above).  He (or she) is a sauerkraut stuffed Mrs. T’s Pierogi.  Amazingly, there’s a wikipedia article on the race.

As I go through the week, I use Twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.

Personal Technology

• Hmmm possible with any android? RT @nerdgirl: iPad to Google Nexus One wifi tether working. No need for a 3G iPad now. (clap)

Pittsburgh

• The Pirates are only worth $289 Million. I’m within $300 Million of owning the bucs! http://bit.ly/d0tXTT (via @priyacmu)
• Bruce Kraus is sitting near by in Starbucks chatting with a constituent. Good to See. Honest/Informed Conversation.

Sports

• #Pirates sent Pedro Alvarez to the minors to work on a few things, apparently kicking ass was one of them. 3 HRs in 2 games
• Giddy, i am. http://yfrog.com/1xdhcj

Technology News

• My company, Adaptivity, made the OnDemand Top 100 list. 2nd company under Cloud – Management Tools! http://bit.ly/b8BwDe

Unsolicited Advice

• RT @jasonfried: Excess meetings, documents & policies are the saturated fats, sugars, preservatives & artificial ingredients of business.

Other (Mostly Humorous Comments from the Week)

• What to tweet sometimes hits me like a punch to the face and sometimes dribbles out like a bloody nose.
• I’m terrible at golf. That says good things for my productivity on Saturday mornings.
• At the race this morning 2800 people ran 13.1 miles to get nowhere (start line was next to finish).

From QuiteHealthy.com

Since I haven’t been posting to Twitter much on account of being in England without internet, this should be relatively painless.

As I go through the week, I use Twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.

National Politics

• I find it annoying that so many people have such strong opinions and so little knowledge #Healthcare
• I don’t know how to make sense of the health care bill, but I pray that those who can are doing the right thing. #healthcare

Pittsburgh

• Heard it’s good. RT @GypsyCafe If you missed Croatian Wine yesterday, you have a second chance today at City Theatrehttp://bit.ly/cIhITS

Sports

• Cool for burgh sports! RT @hanrahan4457: About to go to the pens game with Karstens, clagget, and duke, and @Maholm28

Other (Mostly Humorous Comments from the Week)

• Discombobulated is a great word; and I feel it is entirely too applicable.
• Irish Wisdom via Brendan Behan, “I only drink on two occasions… when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.”
• I think the time will soon come when we look back and say “why did we think that ADD was a disadvantage?” #multitasking
• Spending the last afternoon, evening and night of vacation working and flying. I’m such a pushover.

Twitter is having some serious issues.  I’ve been getting the screen above all morning.  APIs appear to be working though, so this piping hot bit of sauerkraut is brought to you via Seesmic.

As I go through the week, I use Twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.

Personal Technology

• How did people make long car rides before GPS and smartphones?
• Looking for some Twitter tips?  Try @Dom’s book 140 characters  (Link to my review:  http://bit.ly/9jZKKZ)

Pittsburgh

• Interesting opportunity for the Burgh’s tech businesses to be part of the Pirates new exec club.  (via @pghtech) http://bit.ly/9BjAbm

Sports

• brandon jones messed up in the 9th again! Go to altoona, go directly to altoona. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
• Great seats today, right by the bucs’ dugout. http://yfrog.com/hq2b7j
• There are fireworks at the game tonight, guess the #pirates only have one marketing Playbook.

Startups

• Interesting, via @cdixon: The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog http://bit.ly/aSzkSg

Technology News

• My company, Adaptivity, was just nominated to the AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100.  http://bit.ly/aQ0uxF

Other (Mostly Humorous Comments from the Week)

• Just saw a “who is john galt?” billboard. Interesting message, wonder what % of people get it. #aynrand
• RT @StephenAtHome: can’t believe annie leonard thinks americans have too much stuff.  someone should buy her a ronco stuff organizer.
• My tasks always seem to hide until the day I’m to leave for vacation.
• Watch the #oscars?  I care only what movies I enjoyed.

While I use sauerkraut as a way to describe my Sunday hodge-podge posts, I don’t actually like to eat the stuff.  I do however, LOVE to eat kielbasa.  In fact, I just had some great kielbasa yesterday, over Mrs. T’s Pirogies.  Anyways, on to the good stuff.

As I go through the week, I use twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.

Business

• Interesting stuff from @FredWilson Nature vs Nurture for Entrepreneurs. http://tinyurl.com/yhqyas2

Local Politics

• Great Idea by PUMP to host a forum on running for committee. Too much neglect here. http://tinyurl.com/ykejtyy
• #whereisluke he should be allowed to take a vacation he’s mayor not president. Though being a dick shouldn’t be excused.
• Join Pittsburgh Technology Council’s efforts against the Computer Services Tax http://tinyurl.com/y8lfvst
• Why was Jason Altmire so Hostile When asked to Comment on Buchanan’s Decision to Run? http://tinyurl.com/ycgzsqx

Personal Technology

• Gowalla to release Android App! http://tinyurl.com/yj4xjph
• Ha! PMSBuddy.com tracks (for men) when the women in their life will be… http://tinyurl.com/ykwvfnr

Pittsburgh

• Urban Back Country Skiing in Downtown Pittsburgh via @janepitthttp://tinyurl.com/yhkhvdz
• I wonder why Nakama got $2M in stimulus backed loans? Did they expand? http://tinyurl.com/y86lfbn
• Haha, Microsoft Maps, never tore down 3 Rivers, so it appears IN PNC Park on their map. http://tinyurl.com/ylzrpub

Sports

• You have to watch the colbert interview to the end. Or skip to it.http://tinyurl.com/yfjeusq
• Hanrahan to miss first part of season! Seriously?http://tinyurl.com/ykhj9nc
• Today = Pitchers, Catchers and BASEBALL!
• This just in: America Kicks Ass http://tinyurl.com/yzmf2s3
• The only native Pittsburgher in the olympics, Ryan Malone, scores in the first game! http://tinyurl.com/ylmpppe

Startups

• RT @Fin4Founders: “The venture world is the R&D for the United States, it’s not a good idea to shrink it.” #FoF

Tech News

• RT @msuster “Cloud Computing made sense for our desktop applications it’s … going to make sense for [mobile]  http://tinyurl.com/ykfpj9c
• Twitter just passed 140 employees. Any future employees will have to be shrunk by bit.ly. http://tinyurl.com/s7jff
• Brian Solis – Social Media Optimization is the new SEO  http://tinyurl.com/yckvypb
• Where will profits come from in Geotagging. @cdixon takes a shot.  http://tinyurl.com/s7jff