1987: Balloon Launch Day
- 1987: Balloon Launch day at Fairview Elementary
While going through my baby book at my parents house, I stumbled onto this gem of a picture that my dad snapped. Back in 1987, near the end of the school year, was a great (and soon realized environmentally irresponsible) tradition of launching hundreds of balloons into the air. I think the idea was that if you tied your personal information onto the balloon, when someone found it, they could become your pen pal. Not sure why anyone would want that?
I love finding old pictures like these. Did anyone else have a balloon launch at their elementary school?
Visit to Salt Lake City: Omniture Summit 2010
Last week I got to go to my first Omniture Summit. For those that don’t know, we use Omniture at work to measure everything about what people do on our site. The summit is a gathering of all the vendors, clients and Omniture employees to figure out what is going on in the web analytics world and what the trends in the industry are. Yeah, it sounds pretty nerdy, but it’s what I do! I gotta say, I enjoyed being immersed in learning and thinking about the different ways real companies are out there solving problems – and how we can do it better. On top of all that I won a business card drawing from one of the sessions (more on that one later).
As you can imagine, the conference costs a decent amount of money, which allows them to bring in great speakers, and entertainment for the week. This year, the big speakers were John Battelle, marketing guru Seth Godin, and The Killers! They were awesome. I hope to go again next year. But enough of that talk – I just wanted to share a few pictures that I took…
Seth Godin speaking at Omniture Summit 2010
View of the mountains from my hotel room
I woke up to this in the morning!
Killers playing at The Rail in SLC
New Headphones
Thanks to a recommendation from Andrew – I’ve just ordered these Audio-Technica active noise-canceling headphones for all my upcoming trips this year. I’ve never had good headphones before, so I’m pretty excited. They received a good review on iLounge also – so we’ll see how they are once I get them.
Go See Crazy Heart.
I saw Crazy Heart this weekend. It was awesome and I highly recommend. If you haven’t heard of it, here’s the trailer:
