by Zach Beauvais | Apr 29, 2008 | Travel
Well, I and the wife traveled to Limoges in France to Amsterdam over the last two weeks. In France, I had the misfortune of being almost completely without the ability to smell or taste anything thanks to a lingering cold which also incapacitated me on the final...
by Zach Beauvais | Apr 29, 2008 | Digital
Edit: the original blog post on Nodalities blog has been archived/deleted/ignored. I’ve republished it here. I tend to live in a world of metaphor. It’s not my fault, according to Lakoff and Johnson. We all use metaphor all the time: to construct our...
by Zach Beauvais | Apr 29, 2008 | Digital, From Nodblog
Originally appeared on the Nodalities blog – which has since been consigned to the wayback machine. 29th April 2008, 11:34 am by Zach Beauvais In: Uncategorized The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing on kind of thing in terms of another. -Lakoff and...
by Zach Beauvais | Apr 7, 2008 | Digital
I read about sliderocket over on R/WW, and at ZDNet, today, and signed up for a Beta. While I’m waiting for them to send one out (I hope) I’d like to talk a little about why I love the idea of this product. Firstly, I was recently tasked with conducting a...
by Zach Beauvais | Apr 7, 2008 | Coffee, Digital
Gizmodo is a techblog with loads of interesting products. They have a complete set of Coffee-tagged products, all of which I want to own. I have no idea why, but I’ve got this thing for coffee gadgets. Every part of the kit appeals to me. I love coffee They’re gadgets...