Radiohead Not For Profit

my new favorite site:
Radiohead Not For Profit

The 22nd Annual Jazz Reggae Festival

This looks fun:
The 22nd Annual Jazz Reggae Festival

Yahoo stock plunges? (kottke.org)

Yahoo stock plunges? (kottke.org)

Best tequila spots in L.A.

http://theguide.latimes.com/profiles/131/lists/165251

Zappos rocks

I love sneakers. I have to restrain myself from buying a new pair anytime Jen and I are out shopping or anytime I happen to surf on over to zappos.com. I’ve been a huge fan of theirs for many years now and have bought a bunch of shoes from them.

Not until recently did I find out that they also carry sunglasses. I was in the market for a new pair and went out of my way to drive to a shop in a mini mall in the OC that I usually score the kind I like. No luck this time. Bumber, right? Well, I went online like I do for everything else when the brick and mortar world lets me down and what do ya know? Zappos has the kind I like and then some. Their customer service kicks serious booty. I know that none of this is news. But you gotta love it when a company has what you want and is willing to make you happy when you’re forking over 100+ bucks for something. That’s what they did when they price matched and beat the competition for the pair of sunglasses I wanted and threw in next day shipping for free. I love that!

Anyhow, what actually prompted me to write this post was the fact that zappos is kicking serious booty online in another arena other than selling stuff we like to buy. They are also blogging and twittering up a storm. I started following the CEO on twitter a few weeks ago and as it turns out they have a ton of employees using twitter.

Here’s a good conversation on Twittering for Companies.

ESPN Fan Profiles

In the short time I’ve been working at ESPN I’ve learned a lot and have done a ton but haven’t had much to show for it since it was almost all behind the scenes development work. Well, the stuff I’ve been developing, along with the help of some of the best developers I’ve ever had the good fortune to work with, is now available for public consumption.

You can check it out here: http://sportsnation.espn.go.com/jorgemir

If you love sports then you probably go to espn.com about 12 times a day or more depending on how much you try to get away with while you’re supposed to be working. Now you should have a little more to do while you’re there. You can have your own little piece of personal space on the site to post photos and blog entries and interact with your fellow fan via comments and groups. This is just the beginnings as we have a ton of other cool things planned for the site.

There was a previous version of Fan Profiles up but this version that is now live is completely new from soup to nuts and is completely written in Ruby on Rails. We’re still working out the kinks but it sure feels good to have it out there and getting used by all the fine fans of the site.

You can follow along with the development of Fan Profiles and more at our ESPN Dev Blog: http://espndev.com/blog/

my muxtape

Give a listen to my muxtape!

Dodgers tonight

We’re going to the game tonight! My first regular season game of the season and it should be a good one with Peavy and Penny on the mound.

Dusty’s

Dusty’s

Originally uploaded by xero79

We went to dinner at Dusty’s tonight and had a pretty good experience. The prices are a little bit pricey for a neighborhood joint and the menu is pretty limited but it was worth it still. I had the filet which is hard to go wrong with any place you order it and Jen had the duck which she said she liked. We’re always looking for something new and have driven by this place a million times so it was nice to finally check it out.

Photobooth

Jen and I take a photo at the Shortstop’s photobooth on the day of the first Dodger game of the season that we go to. It’s a tradition three years running now and yesterday we took our photo for this season’s first game attended.

You can see 2007 here and 2006 here.