Sticky, Sweet, & A Little Overdressed

• SunJournal.com - John and Barack want to get to know you better
  Demographic and psychographic profiling and targeting go political. Quotes from Netflix spokesperson also included in article.
  (tags: behavioral_targeting marketing politics)

• Nashville law firm pays more than a $1.07M for Germantown building - Nashville Business Journal:
  The house around the corner finally sold, for a few hundred thou less than originally listed. It's a real beaut, too! Not exactly saying they got a bargain, but it's a good building.
  (tags: germantown nashville realestate)

Riding the river trail

Originally uploaded by Kate O’

Note both shoes and helmet in basket. Good times.

Barefoot summer bike ride

Originally uploaded by Kate O’

Riding bike barefoot = summer

I want to reduce my gas consumption and my carbon footprint. But little by little, I’m getting talked out of my bike commuting plans. Several people in the past few weeks have expressed concern over the lack of shoulder in several places on the road I’d be riding along with the speed of traffic on the road, particularly relative to a (slow) cyclist.

I’m gradually coming to the conclusion that, dammit, they’re probably right.

So now I’m left wondering what I want to do about my commute. Besides commuting by bike, I’ve decided to catalog the options I’m weighing, and see if anyone has any other suggestions:

Drinkhaus - our new neighborhood coffee shop

Originally uploaded by Kate O’
Very excited about this cool new coffee shop with tasty drinks and a
lot of style.

Check it out: http://www.drinkhaus.com/

Karsten’s father passed away yesterday. He was 84, and he’d been dealing with a variety of illnesses including emphysema (despite having never smoked a day in his life) and prostate cancer (which he beat — it was the treatment that led to complications). So while his death was not entirely unexpected, it was still rather sudden.

He hasn’t decided if he wants to be present for the visitation, but I think he’s leaning towards going. I’m navigating this as carefully as I can, because even though I know Karsten and his dad had a complicated relationship, I think Karsten is more affected than he expected to be.

We’ve been through so many shades of loss in the ten years we’ve been together, from the long, drawn-out, excruciating loss of my own father to the abrupt and devastating loss of Karsten’s mother, and now the sudden and emotionally puzzling loss of his father. We could really write a book. I suppose it would be more appropriate if we just wrote a song. Maybe that’s the project for this week.

• Silverback — guerrilla usability testing
  Maybe this can replace Morae for me now that my primary work laptop is a Mac and Morae doesn't run on OS X — and I really don't want to have to run a Windows emulator.
  (tags: usability testing osx tools)

My first article in Circulation Management’s “Monday Morning Expert” column is now up on their web site:

Can’t believe anyone believes a word I say with a promo picture like that.

Poker birthday party

Originally uploaded by Kate O’

Joe & Karsten looking up drink recipes online; others playing poker;
others experimenting with mixed drinks in the kitchen…good party.

I don’t know how I missed the news that my favorite local cafe and patisserie, Provence, is now partnering with Intelligentsia Coffee. From Chicago. It’s my favorite coffee EV-AR.

I detect the need to modify my daily commute so that I head downtown before leaving the city on my way to the exurbs each morning: I’m going to need to stop by the Provence at the main library.

Now if only that location would open on Sundays, I’d be a very happy girl.