GMA’s Robin Roberts interviewing Valerie Harper this morning. Two remarkable women who are willing to share their deepest thoughts with us.
When you get to our age, you really get nervous opening emails and texts because you never know what you will find. This week I was informed via mass email newsletters of the deaths of several people I knew. Twice Magazine, a leading trade publication in the consumer electronics industry, ran a headline that said, “CE Retail Mourns Three Of Its Own.”
The most awesome place on Earth to be this week is SXSW, formerly and casually known as South by Southwest, in Austin, Texas. Running from March 8-12, SXSW features the brightest minds in emerging technology. It is also one big party where people drink and eat too much.
To get a proper perspective on what goes on here every year, click here. Lance Ulanoff, editor at Mashable, tells it like it is.
Lance Ulanoff
I have been writing this blog for almost a year. There have been some marvelous technology revelations during that time. I think the one I am about to describe is really a mindblower.
Now, for the first time ever, there is an app, for both Android and iOS, that lets you visualize how furniture or art work that you might want to buy from an ecommerce site will look in your home. Aptly called Augment, the “try it on” button on Augment-connected ecommerce sites will overlay the item anywhere you point your smartphone or tablet camera in your home.
Get ready for a life of absolutely no privacy. You may feel like you have none now with credit cards, road tolls, online shopping, GPS, and social media, tracking your every move. That will pale in comparison to everyone you know, and don’t know, taking personal pictures of you everywhere you go.
For some reason, the videos from our magical weekend never got posted. Either the site crashed or I goofed. In any case, here they are.
If there was ever a reason to own a Go Pro, one of those cameras that attach to your helmet, riding a snow mobile is one. Many people who ride bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles own a Go Pro because it records your trails.
Today, riding a snow mobile through Yellowstone Park, I really wished I had popped for the $300+ equipment so that I could show you thrill of the ride. We covered 100 miles of fields of untouched white snow on mountains, trees, lakes, and valleys. Geysers, mud pots, and hot springs. We hiked through the snow to see Old Faithful. It was magnificent.
At 50 miles an hour, you had to hold on tight otherwise off you go. The twists and turns were a little unnerving. I shared a snow mobile with Eliot and had to tap him a few times to slow down.
If I had had a Go Pro, we all could have experienced this together. Next time.
When our cousins Larry Young and Darren Thomas called late last year to ask us to join them on a ski weekend in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this March, we didn’t hesitate a moment to say yes. We are close cousins, but we only see each other twice a year. They both are top real estate agents in Los Angeles and they run 24/7. Boy, have they told us stories.
We are at the top of a lift on the slopes in Jackson Hole watching everyone take off on their ski runs. Thanks to YouTube, I am able to stack these videos for all of you to see of what I, as a non-skier, am getting to watch for the first time in my life in person. Make sure you watch the hang glider who fails on take-off. Also catch the two- and four-year-olds learning their way around the slopes.
Eliot and I just spent two days in Denver visiting Mary Cutrell West, her husband Chris, and their almost seven-year-old son Christopher. This visit was long overdue since we haven’t seen Mary in eight years. She was a nanny for Whitney from the age of nine to sometime before her Bat Mitzvah. Mary was more like a big sister to Whitney. Mary replaced Theresa Ferreira who was with Whitney from seven days old till nine. Then Theresa worked at our PR agency.
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