Yesterday, we met with someone who’d recently moved back to Minneapolis from a coast. As expected, her friends on the coast were perplexed why she’d choose to move back to sleepy Minneapolis. As someone who packed up her belongings in Washington D.C. and happily resides in Minneapolis, I’ve also heard this argument.
In defense of our [...]

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Dear Diary,
An abundance of fan mail has made it clear that it’s crucial for me to say some parting words before leaving Fast Horse.
You may remember my first post, asking whether or not I will be the “next great apple”, referring to a question regarding our apple-growing clients. Well, SweeTango has launched and reviews are in: [...]

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To be honest, leading up to this week, I hadn’t planned on attending any aspect of the Republican National Convention. I was excited to see St. Paul on the national scene, but my patience for traffic, lines and security is infinitely low after spending three years in our nation’s capital.
However, this Monday while enjoying a [...]

Let’s be honest, the great Minnesota get-together is my second home. As someone who grew up feasting on Pronto Pups and gulping down Rudy Boschwitz milk, the State Fair is an annual pilgrimage. I no longer venture through the gates tied to my five siblings with a frazzled mother barking orders, but I still visit [...]

We were talking the other day about something I’ve always found fascinating: words that seemingly have no opposite — or at least, an opposite that’s rarely, if ever, used.
I first thought of this years ago, reading something by H.L. Mencken in which he described a baby as “gruntled.” In all my years of reading and [...]

For our second installment of BattleFight, hardware faces off with open-source technology and humanoid horse-beasts: the Terminator spot-welded to a Segway versus a dozen or so centaurs with the cognitional knowledge of Wikipedia.

When debating this BattleFight please reflect on Victor Turner’s concept of liminality as well as the problems of natural/artificial dualism encountered by cyborgs.
 The [...]

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In our first volume of BattleFight, Darth Vader and the iPhone 3G confronted “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” along with Twitter.
There were some epic arguments made - the vast majority in favor of Vader/iPhone. Kudos to all for contributing; we’re all very proud of you.

The Results: After running a series of simulations and tests in our fictitious BattleFight lab, some mulled [...]

Dear Diary,
This past week I had the opportunity to sink my teeth into a little bit more substantial PR work. They put me up on a ladder and I helped to paint “Idea Peep Show” across the top of our windows that face the street, in preparation for the Fast Horse summer party. I think it’s safe [...]

My 14-month-old daughter, Johanna, loves books.  Little in life fascinates her more than flipping through the pages of a book about farm animals, or rubbing fur or sandpaper implanted in appropriate places on the pages of classics like “Pat the Bunny. ” (”Now you touch daddy’s scratchy face!”)�
While I also love books, my tastes run a little less, [...]