David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

I didn’t take that many photos at Podcamp Boston 3, but I took a handful that I thought were decent and fun so here they are on my flickr feed. Enjoy! Comment, favorite, share! BY-NC-SA

We held a funeral for DRM by encasing an iPod and a Zune in concrete and dropping it into the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge. We ended up getting front page of Digg with the invite. I was invited to take photos and video. I still haven’t had a chance to edit the video and stupidly left it all on a hard drive at home. I took (what I consider) to be some great photos however. They are all posted to Flickr as CC (by-nc-sa). See some of the photos below.

ROFLCon Crew, dressed for the part. Christina, Tim, Diana, Dean

Burial at sea, view from the bridge

The Splash

Dean about to lower the Zune and iPod

The Brick resting peacefully

Everyone gathering at JFK Park

Evening prior from the 8th floor of the Harvard Science building roof

I’ve wanted to go to Harvard for several years. I shouldn’t say that it’s been a lifetime goal or anything, but I would rather like to attend their business school perhaps in Fall 2009, or at worst 2010. I’ve started a plan into action that will surely help me at whatever MBA program I end up pursuing.

Rich Helle and I each purchased the The Case Study Handbook: How to Read, Discuss, and Write Persuasively About Cases by William Ellet on HBSP. After going through that I will start independently working over case studies. I know that the in-classroom lectures and feedback would be helpful but this is a good start. I’ll try to write response essays as if I am enrolled in business school and post them here to my blog for critique. It might be tricky however as I don’t think I can post the original case study so it might confuse readers. I’ll have to figure that out. Seems to be a pretty good book so far.

Also, Rich and I have decided to start a negotiations group. We need to work out the details, but we’d like to invite other business-minded friends to join us in the study of the art of negotiation. Everyone in every organization needs better negotiation skills, so if you interested and in the Boston area email me and I’ll keep you in the loop. I took one negotiations class at Berklee but I still feel unprepared for it in the business world.

Well, kinda. I guess two two piercing that will become an industrial once it heals.
I had been intending on getting something done for a bit, and I’ve had several well-pierced friends lately. I decided on Chameleon in Harvard Square since it was close and reasonably priced. I called a few friends to go with me, but everyone was busy. I resolved to go anyway by myself. Keep in mind that I’ve never had anything pierced prior and until recently I had a deathly fear of needles in general.
So I show up at Chameleon. It’s actually kinda split into two stores. There’s the one in the middle that you purchase the jewelry at and sign up, then the piercing/tattoo parlor. At first I was sad, and didn’t think I was going to be able to do it. I was 100% set on a titanium piercing only. My skin doesn’t do that well with some metals that contain any copper or nickel. I know my hands eat through guitar strings and other metal instantly it seems, and that my father doesn’t do well with gold generally. They didn’t have any standard industrial bars in titanium. I was sad.
However, after talking with them a bit anyway and they wouldn’t pierce with that if they had it. Apparently industrials don’t heal well if pierced with the bar and they use captive bead rings instead (basically two small hoops as you see in the photo). Also from what I gathered this is one of the lesser fun piercings to get done pain-wise as it goes through cartilage twice.
Getting it done wasn’t bad. Owen is great at what he does and made it much better than most visits to the doctor. Too bad he isn’t a dentist, because he was really much more understanding about pain than any dentist I’ve ever met.
It only cost $70 + tip including the titanium CBRs, which wasn’t bad. I got some saline spray to clean it with, and everything so far is great. I’m hooked and can’t wait to get a few more piercings. The only downside is that I have to learn to sleep on my left side for the next few weeks.