Heartland Climate Scam Sinking, but so is Planet (McKibben)

Bill McKibben writes at Tomdispatch.com: A hard-hitting campaign from a new group called Forecast the Facts persuaded many of the corporations backing Heartland to withdraw $825,000 in funding; an entire wing of the Institute, devoted to helping the insurance industry, calved off to form its own nonprofit. Normally friendly politicians like Wisconsin Republican Congressman Jim [...]

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Sins of Steel 6//2/2012 @ Davisburg, MI.

Some pics from the 2012 Sins of Steel show in Davisburg, MI. held June 2nd, 2012. I tagged along with the Speedcult gang to chill and grill with the crew and take in all the elaborate art of steel flowing all around us. Rat-rods, steel, PBR, burnt rubb…

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the taste of summer

We take summer quite seriously in Sluiter Nation. We live in West Michigan practically on Lake Michigan. This means our winters are hard and our summers are glorious. I mean, when you live somewhere that gives you THIS for winter? You learn at a very young age that the hot days of summer are not [...]

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Detroit needs more leaders willing to put their shoulders into it

Tweet For a few minutes there, it seemed like all of the work for the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix was going to literally come apart. Pieces of the road surface were coming up under the stress of the high-performance machines. It brought the race to a rarely seen red flag. The entire thing came [...]

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Midwest UX 2012 Conference

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Midwest UX Conference in Columbus, Ohio and had a wonderful time. I loved attending Midwest UX last year:

it’s close by (only three hours away)
lots of user experience professio…

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Patience is a virtue, even for startups

I’ve noticed something in myself recently, that has caused more than a couple frustrations.  Our team will pull in a bunch of data from customers and develop a plan.  We’ve examined all options, and everybody’s in agreement that this is our best option, and we break the huddle to get to it.  Figure it’s about [...]

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The Simple things…

Road trips were something the hubs & I may have taken for granted before we had kids.

I love taking my children places, but road trips are always a craps-shoot, because we never know what sort of attitude we’ll get.

Will this child throw a fit over…

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Day 364: The Green Well

There is an emerging trend in American cuisine. Appetites are becoming refined, restaurants are gunning for the burgeoning “foodie” culture (a culture I think is as nebulous as the word is unattractive), and the main weapon in this crusade …

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New Blue, Maurice Hurst

MA DT Maurice Hurst Jr, listed as 6’2, 300ish, verbally committed to Michigan during his campus visit on Saturday, a day after visiting East Lansing. Hurst is a bit of a new-comer on Michigan’s radar, as he was only offered on May…

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12½th Mac

I’m going to be teaching intro iOS development classes this summer at Develop Detroit (no, Detroit isn’t particularly close to Grand Rapids… shut up), and between that and the Core Audio all-day tutorial I’ll be doing at CocoaConf Columbus in August, I decided that it would be a good time to update from the 2008 [...]

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