Jeremy Tanner

Four Seasons Vancouver

Jeremy Tanner — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:31:18 +0000

Received an email late in the day. “We’re going to Whistler” It was not so much a question as a statement of fact. Soon? Sounds good. Canada? It’s been a while. The itinerary was a whirlwind. A day in Vancouver, two more in Whistler then back to the states. I understood that food, lodging and snowboarding were to be provided, I was unaware that I’d be issued a family for the trip. A travel blogger, vagabond, cookbook author, fighter pilot, startup founder/speaker/author, mom tech writer and 2 Travel PR pros. Settling into my room was easy, was greeted with a well executed amenities tray and a choice of bathrooms in my suite to use (a rare problem.) Didn’t get too settled as the group was gathering to watch the Super Bowl downstairs in Yew. Being that Vancouver is in Canada, we were denied the US Super Bowl commercials. The trade was worth it. Dinner afterwards was amazing, as was breakfast (pictured above) In the morning I had time for a quick walk to Gastown as much of Vancouver is accessible on foot from the front door. Weather required nothing more than a merino sweater, nice in February. By noon I was packing up and headed along the sea to sky highway where the Four Seasons Resort Whistler was waiting for us.

Twitter for Mac Back in Black

Jeremy Tanner — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:10:29 +0000

I’ve been enjoying the long overdue Twitter for Mac since the Mac App Store opened on the 6th. Love it. Tweetie was my favorite Mac Twitter client and still in use right up until the 6th. The 2.0 release adds list & retweet support, the only things that were really missing. It has everything I need, nothing that I don’t. I downloaded it on my Mac Mini yesterday and noticed the blue icon… I could have sworn that the app was supposed to have a black icon. Checked the MacBook. Sure enough, the update from 2.0 to 2.0.1 changes the icon blue.

I like the black icon, so I changed it back. To change it back on your machine:

Download and unzip these Black Twitter Icons
In the Applications folder select the Twitter app and ⌘+I to get info
Select the black icon and ⌘+I to open it’s info
Click the lock in the lower right corner of Twitter’s info window to allow changes
Change the permissions for ‘everyone’ to Read & Write
Click the black icon in the icon’s info window’s upper left corner and ⌘+C to copy
Click the blue icon in the app’s info window’s upper left corner and ⌘+V to paste
Close and relaunch the Twitter app

PodCamp Boulder

Jeremy Tanner — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:55:26 +0000

PodCamp Boulder returns in 2011!

PodCamp Boulder 3 will be held February 4-5, 2011 at Boulder Digital Arts (1600 Range St, Boulder)

How’s it going down?

Starting at 7:00 Friday night we’ll get together over drinks and in front of a whiteboard to hash out the Saturday schedule. Knowledge to drop? Things you’ve been curious about? So long as it’s in the realm of creating / posting (Audio, Video, Photos, Blogs/Microblogs) , it’s fair game. We’ll wrap at 9:00 having decided both what sessions / panels / discussions will be happening, and when we want to be back in the morning. (9:00-5:00 Saturday) All are welcome. Invite a friend. Bring your gear, bring a good attitude.

Still not sure?

Photos from PodCamp Boulder 1 & 2.

PodCamp Boulder 2009 hour by hour

Awesome sponsors making PodCamp happen:

Questions? Comment below or contact jeremy at jeremytanner.com / 248-990-3862

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Where The Fun’s At. Now with 100% more Ef

Jeremy Tanner — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:07:56 +0000

Back on track, bringing you the latest on Boulder and beyond. For Season 2, Ef Rodriguez will be joining me. Original co-hst Andrew Hyde is 3 months into an year-long, ’round the world trip. Ef and I share a love of Boulder, sneakers and the ridiculous. These should bring you right up to current. Enjoy!

The Fun Returns

Jeremy Tanner — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:51:20 +0000

After a hiatus with both Andrew and I being out of town, Where The Fun’s At is back. We have to relearn our setup using a new camera (1/20th the cost of the last one) We’re a bit rusty, so please forgive us…

Notes:
South by Southwest
30 Hour Day
Jeffrey is now at Digg
Jake & Shondi’s baby Dash
Ignite Boulder
Ken Block will be racing a Fiesta in Rally America and a Focus in WRC
Ironman AZ
Domino’s
PodCamp Boulder is January 22nd & 23rd
TechStars
Tahoe Snowcial
Andrew, Hammer and Jeremy
Graphic.ly
Boxee

Fiestatistics

Jeremy Tanner — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:56:00 +0000

My full Fiestamovement recap is still brewing, so here’s my fiestamovement experience by the numbers…

Final Mileage: 20,452
Longest road trip: 1,370.7 miles one way
Days with Fiesta: 215 ( Avg 92.125 miles per day)
Fiesta Riders: 51
Fiesta Riders on Twitter: 30
States: 12 (CO, WA, OR, MT, WY, ID, NV, UT, AZ, NM, TX, OK / Every State west of Denver except California)
Horsepower: 11 less than this
Missions completed: 6
Tires used: 5
Animal Impacts Avoided: 4
National Parks Visited: 3 (Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Monument)
Oil Changes: 2
Kegs Transported: 2
Hidden GPS Tracking units discovered: 2
14ers: 1 (Pikes Peak)
Keys lost at SDF: 1
Times run out of gas: 1
Wheels Destroyed: 1
Nights slept in Fiesta: 1 (2 if you count Andrew wimping out in Crested Butte, 3 if you count 2 4hr naps on the way to and from Seattle)
Hitchhikers Picked up: 1
Speeding Tickets: 1

PodCamp Boulder 2010

Jeremy Tanner — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:50:58 +0000

What seemed the most popular question after Boulder’s first PodCamp 10 months ago was, “When’s the next one?” … It’s back!

PodCamp Boulder 2 will be held January 22-23, 2010 at the skinnycorp / Threadless office (1468 Pearl St, Boulder)

How’s it going down?

Still not sure? Check out PodCamp in the words of last year’s attendees.

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Three Years in Boulder

Jeremy Tanner — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:14:22 +0000

This weekend I fired up the motorcycle and rode until the sun fell behind the flatirons, 65º and sunny the day after Thanksgiving, I pretty much HAD to. But temperate winter isn’t much of a surprise here, I was reminded of why I moved out three years ago; wearing shorts hiking the foothills in mid-November, the trailhead starts a mile from my house.

While working in Detroit three years ago, I was invited out to Boulder by two friends who had made the move from Michigan 6 months earlier. It was time for a break, so I took a week off and flew into Denver. We drove into Boulder at night, I didn’t see the mountains (foothills) until I woke the next morning. Years later, waking up and seeing the mountains still puts a smile on my face, I wondered if it would fade. It has not. That week I attended Boulder’s New Tech Meetup (it was still 25 guys in an unused conference room) and the first Barcamp Boulder. I met startup founders, freelancers and others who liked to talk tech on the weekends. There was interesting work to be done. I took a few interviews. I was back 2 weeks later.

By living in Boulder, I can take a better vacation on my lunch break than I could in a weekend. Canyon ride to a mountain town, mountain park or just a bend in Boulder Creek that I can have to myself for a while. A little further out, Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, National Parks and Rafting. And a lot of people who’ll join you. As a small town, Boulder has short commutes; allowing one more time to spend with friends or family. A small land area allows for serendipity, running across friends while walking the pedestrian mall or the ease of getting a few people together for dinner / drinks, downtown is always just a few minutes away. Everyone here is from somewhere else. There’s not the same lock-in you find in towns where most have been friends since grade school. You become a local once you’ve been here longer than half your friends.

Wether it’s a girl, a job or a university; what brings you here won’t be what keeps you here, but that’s fine. If you want to be challenged and grow as a result of it, stick around a while. You’ll have either found new reasons to stay, or gained experience that allows you to go be awesome somewhere else. Myself? I’m still closer to the beginning of my time here than to the end.

Fiesta at Pikes Peak

Jeremy Tanner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:28 +0000

While looking back through photos and videos from the summer, I found a video that wasn’t posted yet from the Pikes Peak Hill Climb down in Colorado Springs. The night before I’d stopped by Cameraworks looking for a good way to mount a camera to the outside of my car. I ended up with a suction cup they gave me a great deal on. As for the racers, conditions werent ideal, so no one broke 10 minutes, maybe next year. Here for your viewing pleasure is the trip to the top of Pikes Peak, cut down to about 30 seconds…

Off to Seattle

Jeremy Tanner — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:27:50 +0000

Blogworld may be sending me to Gnomedex this year… This October will be my third Blogworld Expo, a solid conference in 2007 and even better in 2008. This year I’ll be moderating the “Blog as a Community Springboard Panel” with Jenn Van Grove, George Smith Jr, Bryan Elliott and Keith Burtis. Very much looking forward to it. Today I’m packing up the Fiesta and heading to Seattle to meet with Project H, a non-profit that uses industrial design to make people’s lives better. After that Gnomedex will be on… I sometimes do, I procrastinated on buying a badge, it looks like my procrastination may have just paid off. Blogword just offered up a badge at the last minute. I’ve intended to go, but this is the first year that the timing has worked. It’ll be good to catch up with my friends in Seattle and those that are in for the conf. See you in Seattle!

20 Hours to Seattle…