• There was a holymother ton of people at Northstar-Tahoe for the Autumn Wine & Food Festival. Ran in to Knud and his family.
• @ mehwolfy i could use some help carrying this bag of helmets up at Northstar mountainbike park i have a free pass!
• @ mehwolfy those are cool kid’s tandems. I’ve been to Brown Cycles of Grand Junction a few times. They have a killer bicycle museum.
• Having five 7-8 year old boys under my care for 24hrs / you gain an appreciation for how/why Lord of the Flies was written accurately!

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-15

• Filling out ski team/season pass forms for Logan’s 3rd ‘n Cody’s 1st year of ski team at Alpine. Let it snow let it snow let it snow…!
• Cody: “What if we lived in a giant Cheez-it!? Wouldn’t that be AWESOME Dad?” Where does he come up with this stuff…?

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-14

• We should just apply for a liquor license. Another 30-40ppl flowin’ thru the LaPlante haus on a Friday. 11:07 PM
• “Dad, I have to say Pho (Fuh) like Pho (Fow) ’cause Mom may think I’m saying a bad word.” Five year old Cody logic in progress. Italian mom. 06:30 PM
• Punchin’ out. Great week! While I didn’t make dent in my stuff, the orgs I steward all had huge accomplishment. Feeling sooper proud of teams! 05:21 PM
• 3rd crash in 4 days at Reno Air Races w/ two pilot fatalities. + Steve Fossett still missing. Glad I’m not a pilot in Nevada right now! 01:50 PM
• Took exactly 7 days for Cody to “drop his apple” at Kindergarten. Logan’s apple never moved. For those of you that know Cody ..no surprise 12:59 PM
• I’m going to startup a Web 2.0 identity-name shop. All I have to do is look thru Logan’s 2nd Grade spelling tests! Bikr. Skir. Boogr-etr. 09:12 AM

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-13

• It’s 2007. Why are people still writing checks s-l-o-w-l-y in front of me at grocery stores!? 05:47PM
• The TSA has approved my rtGO application + my card just arrived in the mail. I can legally cut to the front of the line at the airport. Yay! 10:17AM

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-12

• Riding back from the Silver Peek after hangin’ w/ Twelve Horses cru and the RLIFE party. Nice nite for a bike ride. 10:01PM
• I like riding bikes downtown with a banker to talk deals on a Wed evening. 05:03PM
• Michael Thomas is new RSCVA executive director of marketing! w00t! 01:31PM

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-11

• True/false: The dude w/ the 15″ Powerbook + wifi iPhone @ OAK who asked 5+ people if there’s free wifi (!!!?) got argumentative w/ security 08:02 PM
• @colinloretz: Be sure to checkout the Reno Bike Project stock b4 you pull the trigger on a PP bike…open tonite 8p to 10p 07:53 PM
• Flew seated next to a paranoid schizophrenic from OAK to Reno. We had a very creative/diverse conversation the three of us. Nice guy. Sad. 02:34 PM

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-10

• I’m at my first pro football game…San Francisco 49ers v. the Cards. I made it 37 years w/o seeing apro football game. 08:01 PM
• Monday night football!!! Headed to San Francisco 49ers v. the Cards game in SF. Riding the BART. 08:01 PM
• Nothing says ‘America has a health crisis’ like the 11 wheelchairs required to get everyone off my plane. Sad. Only one person looks 65+ 02:01 PM

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-09

• Balloons balloons everywhere. We’re smack in the middle of 100 balloons in the Great Reno Balloon Race. 07:42 AM

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-08

• We consume a lot of bandaids, Otter Pops, PBR, 700×23′s, ice cream, pasta, chain lube, pho and AA batteries ’round here… 10:15 PM
• Eight chicks on 3 tandems ‘n 2 cruisers just leaving my house and riding downtown to the Imperial Lounge. Trouble. My wife’s in their too… 06:51 PM
• Finished up boys soccer games, down at Bike Project, about to wrench on these tandems 03:01 PM

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-07

• Dawn Patrol for Balloon Races in the am…Black Rock Desert Bicycle run on Sunday…if anyone has trucks, we need help moving bikes!!! 09:05 PM
• Only about 1/2 of my twitters today made it to the bigshew. Twitter ate a bunch of them…bummer. Had some great tweets today about insects. 09:04 PM
• I’ve got about 15 Quechup invites in the last day. DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO QUECHUP!!! It’s a scam-spam: http://tinyurl.com/22q745 12:03 PM
• @colinloretz i’m stuck downtown w/ busted locknut or i’d ride down/meetup. my truck’s in the Black Rock hauling bikes back so w/o wheels! 11:55 AM

• Leilani spotted a huge Praying Mantis at the office and I brought it home for the boys. LoganCody are super stoked right now!#
• $100.00 iPhone credit x 40 iPhones we bought for the Twelve Horses crew means a lot of rebate purchasing power. Good move Apple. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-05

• What should the deadline be 4 washing the playa dust off your car post-Burning Man before it’s obvious you’re “trying too hard to be cool”? #
• Best email subject line 2day: RENO FIRE: TAKE MEASURES TO PREVENT SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. Care of my City Gov’t -Yay!- I hope to not combust #
• @leelefever SnowCrash is one of my all-time favorite SciFi books. I hope you have the time to enjoy it w/o too many distractions! #
• My wife took her Mom to the ER this morning with symptoms of a stroke. Hard to believe it’s that…she’s in her late 60s and very healthy. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-04

• Today was Coday’s first day of Kindergarten. He was more excited than Christmas. He was up at 5:30am bouncing off the walls. #
• 3.5″ iPod (similar to iPhone) 2b announced 2morrow. Wonder how many iPhone’rs will/would trade their iPhone for a 3.5″ iPod? #

Twitter Updates for 2007-09-01

• Labor Day Weekend…engage. Shake ‘n’bake at Silver Peak w/ Thomas ‘n Pickett. #
• Logan Cody just finished up their first soccer practices. They love soccer. Not too sure about the soccer scene…may cut into BMX racing. #
• Bikes per capita in the LaPlante Family just pushed 3.75, Expect to bust 4pp soon. The twin vintage ’71 tandems are slickest. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-29

• Too busy to Twitter may sound like a lame excuse, but Holy Crap did this week get nutty. Plus every-other-thing I do seems to be under NDA.. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-26

• I’m with my two monkeys looking at two monkeys at the Seattle Woodland Park Zoo. They scored zoo.org. checkit #
• Logan, Cody and I are in the back of the C line. Looks like Southwest’s child pre-boarding policy (4 & under) is about to ruin someone’s day. #
• Told Logan Cody to stare at gate attendant ‘n smile. It worked. She plucked us out of the C line and let us pre-board w/o having to ask. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-25

• Just watched a killer IMAX movie about Mt. St. Helens explosion at the Seattle Kids Discovery Science Center. Screw HD…I want an IMAX #
• On a ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge on our way to have dinner. #
• Hiking the boys in Seattle’s Lincoln Park. Looking across the bay at the K2 ski factory. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-24

• Myrna the Minx friended me on Facebook. Cool. #
• Cody wants a dollar so he can play the airline ticket checkin kiosk. Logan wants to check his brother as baggage. Says, “Give him a camera!” #
• @mrjerz hahaha I’m not just another cog in the political machine! My voice will/must be heard! This is not about Google Juice… #
• iPhone unlocked! This ain’t no Nokia…this ain’t no Disco…this ain’t no foolin’ around: http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/ #
• Eating pasta inside Wally the Trolley at the Old Spaghetti Factory with LoganCody ‘n their Uncle #
• Nevada Clean Energy Summit, RenoBikeProject, NCET WiFi Wed., AIGA Sustainable Design Conf. all in 5 days! Reno-Tahoe the clean’n green scene #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-23

• Makin’ the sly move on the “B” 2 “C” shuffle avoiding huge lines at Vegas airport. Yeah, some of you know that move… #
• @CML why don’t you keep that 29″ Gary Fisher in Reno where we’ll show that bike some proper love #
• Yay! Got on an earleir flight home. Double Yay!! It’s late. Was worried that I might actually fly on an on-time flight. That would be wierd. #
• Landed fr/ Vegas. Jumped outta my suit. Rode bike to NCET’s WiFi Wednesday at the Choc Bar. Hangin w/ Elisa, Bobzien, Aloia, Butler, Setzer #
• RenoBikeProject.com Web meeting at Twelve Horses going down. AIGA event 2nite at Tahoe Center for Environment http://tinyurl.com/37e23p #
• the Prim Library at Sierra Nevada College has free WiFi. Kewl. Hangin’ in Incline Village catching up on email, txts and IMs b4 AIGA event #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-22

• @LeilaniS thanks for the compliment, however my wife would most likely not share the same opinion of me #
• I left my house at 7:45a. Arrived at the B5 gate at 8:00a. 15 minutes from doorstep, park, security, gate. Pretty fast today. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-21

• Matt’s Copyright for ‘Velvet Dew’ has been issued. Cool. #

• Babysitter! Jess ‘n I riding down to Saigon Pearl for some Pho and then on to see Bourne movie #
• Just confirmed my invitation to speak at CES Las Vegas Jan. 7 on blogging and branding. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-19

• @colinloretz what kind of bike did you buy? If you’re in the hood ride by and lets check it out #
• Hanging out at Coot’s looking at buying a sweet vintage Schwinn Tandem…maybe even two… #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-18

• Nothing says “I’m from and stuck in the 90′s!” than blocking your callerID. #
• at a VIP breakfast at the Peppermill listening to Senator Reid crack jokes. He’s funny this morning. Almost surly… #
• Quote: “I don’t take steroids like Barry Bonds. And I don’t drink coffee.” Senator Reid #
• Assemblyman David Bobzien getting mad props from Sheila Leslie. Great to see him getting recognition for his hard work. #
• Acciona has 400 acre solar field and an adjoining power plant operating just north of Boulder City, Nevada. Very cool design. #
• Nevada leads US per capita electricity consumption (Vegas). That’s bad. Leads US in total hydro/geothermal energy output. That’s good. #
• Nevada Clean Energy Summit a success. 600+ ppl. Senator Reid got nasty on coal. Lots of cool companies w/ killer solutions. Nevada rockin’ #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-17

• Happy Birthday Darin Heimerman. We miss you. #
• Jessica went 4 trailrun this AM. Calls’n says, “There’s these really big fresh poops on the trail full of berries. Is that a bear?” YES!!! #
• Cathexes sure threw down for a great Grand Opening party last night. Half of Reno is hurting/dysfunctional from all that red wine poured. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-16

• Yay! Just landed in Reno. Luv’n fly’n standby’n catch’n earlier flight. Flight from Vegas full of folks up for University Regents meeting #
• @ mehwolfy like Chinese food and peanut butter. Cool. Reno bike project rocks #
• Taking @jkenzer advice, posted an opinionated rant on business cards and personal branding getting TON traffic: http://tinyurl.com/2aorz5 #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-15

• Just landed in Las Vegas. Got a lot of writing done on the 2 hour flight from Seattle. Got some prep work to do tonight for my preso 2morrow #
• Yappin’ on cell as i walked off plane in Vegas left sportcoat behind. At Ben Sherman…reading Twelve Horses blog while clothes get steamed #
• Is at Vegas airport about to jack my iPhone on to the free wifi ‘n see what @mrjerz @jkenzer are rippin’ @rpayne for alleged lame commenting #

• “Sticks and stones may break my bones…but zucchini will surely kill me.” Rockin’ the squash scene with the LoganCody. #
• Parenting 2.0: Clip jousting Zoolander & Flight of the Conchords at the family dinner table with family. iPhone generation here we go… #
• Just landed in Seattle. Time elapsed from walking off plane to Starbucks encounter: 7.2 seconds. *$ *$ *$ #
• Back at SEATAC gettin’ on a plane to Las Vegas. I was fortunate to get about 3 minutes of lovely Seattle sun today. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-13

• Just got back from riding the ‘hood with the boys moochin’ beverages. Stopped off to wish Wolfy a Habby BDay and have some cake! #
• Just booked tickets for a quick trip to Seattle tomorrow…and then on to Las Vegas. Speaking at TBAN lunch meeting in Vegas Wednesday. #
• Whoa! Where’s the fire!? So smoky outside I can’t even see Mt. Rose/Tahoe/Sierras. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-12

• LoganCody are making robot heads out of empty PBR 12-packs and talking in monotones. Likin’ their style #
• Logan just taught Cody how to tie his shoes. Summer goal accomplished! Now must inspire desire to wear his shoes b4 Kindergarten starts. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-11

• iPho. iPabst. iBike. iHome. iKids. iWife. iHappy. #
• With the world in good hands (thanks to jerzed-domination) I’m going for a bike ride. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-10

• Just finished up a Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship Board meeting and now headed to Utah Facebook Developers Garage w/ Steve ‘n Clint #
• Listening to Joseph Scott of WordPress.com detail development of WordPress.com app for Facebook. Crazy Facebook stats at www.appaholic.com #
• Podcasts make insanely long lines at airports not only bearable, but productive. Enjoying Susan Bratton’s interview w/ Sir Ken Robinson. #
• up@ 2am…provo to slc, slc to vegas, delay, vegas to reno. Race to University of Nevada. 2.5 hour lecture to UNR staff. Hungry. #
• iTired. iWorked many many hours this and iReady to go to Robert’s moving to Tampa Florida and iDrink and be iHappy. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-09

• I’m at Politic 2.0 in Salt Lake City watching/listening/participating in a live Kos-style blog debate w/ 5 Mayoral candidates. #
• made an embarrassing typo blogging about William Gibson (my substituted Bruce Sterling for Wm.G) and I got busted by Bruce himself…bad day #
• a god among men visits my blog to correct a typo about him within 5 minutes of posting…yeah, i feel like a total dork now. gonna cry now #

• At the Las Vegas airport getting on a plane to Salt Lake City for Outdoor Retailer. I wish this event would come back to Reno. #
• Yay! Glad to be in the Salt Lkae City office and to see everyone. We’re going to have to accelerate shared office community bikes. #
• I’m gonna steal Steve’s staplr (yeah, it’s a web 2.0 staplr) and bring it back to Reno as a going away gift for Robert. #
• In my “downtown SLC office” a.k.a. ‘A Cup of Joe’ between meetings/gazing out the window at a sweet GT frame fixie w/ black Phil Wood hubs #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-07

• At the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation in Las Vegas planning a tri-state business plan competition with $200,000 in prize money #
• Watch out Business schools…Journalism schools may become the hotbed of entrepreneurship education in Universities. How (old) v. Why (new) #
• The hot debate: can entrepreneurship be taught within schools of academics…or is it a discipline of genetics and/or raw experience? #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-06

• Yay! My flight to Las Vegas is delayed an hour. Opportunity to catch up on some email/voicemail. Rockin’ the Reno airport free wifi #
• As a result of my plane being 2.5 hours late, an astounding quantity of email was dealt with for a Monday. #
• It’s freezing in Vegas today. Only 95 degrees mid-afternoon. Wish I’d brought a jacket. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-05

• @jkenzer we’ve wifey’s parents here as well so we’re going to ride our bikes down to the Riverside and see the Bourne Ultimatum 10:15p show #
• ruhroh…appears the RGJ.com server is dead. i was looking up to see when Hall & Oates is playing (I believe Aug 31) and it SNF’d on query #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-04

• Wow holy it’s Saturday where did the week go and I have to deal with an email/voicemail/txt hangover. #
• nslookup mysisterinlawdrivesmenuts.com, mymotherinlawisinsane.com, myfatherinlawlistenstorush.com, whydidwebuildaguestbedroom.com #

• Wow holy it’s Saturday where did the week go and I have to deal with an email/voicemail/txt hangover. #
• nslookup mysisterinlawdrivesmenuts.com, mymotherinlawisinsane.com, myfatherinlawlistenstorush.com, whydidwebuildaguestbedroom.com #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-02

• Top of the 1st inning. Gastanaga on the mound. Twelve horses down by 10 runs 1st inning!!! Awesome!!! #
• Wooohooo! We lost. 10 run mercy rule. So very proud. I think we’re like 0 and 4. We’re off to a perfect season!!! #
• Kenny & Mi Thai are proud parents of ‘nother baby boy. Aidan’s got a brother. Logan Cody have six boy cuzns now. 8 boys 0 girls in the fam! #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-01

• @ g0lf3r: RE: Cool! There is a new Pho going in where The Zone cafe was.ö There can never be too many places to get Pho!!! #
• Logan and I just rode back from the Reno Bike Project meeting at the Silver Peak. He’s got legs. And a good sense of cool friends. Cool. #
• Saw another “Knowledge Center” building get endowed today. Kinda funny during this time of knowledge decentralization and commoditization. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-07-31

• Cody’s practicing his skids on a fixed gear 12″ pink barbie bike w/solid foam wheels. He’s getting pretty good at it! #
• Riding shotgun in Noah’s new fly flatbed after my house was mobbed of its turkey tacos and bike project miscreants ridng new fixed whips #
• Tmo must have a tower down in my hood. I usually have fullbars @ Bibo’s. #

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• SLC to Reno, unpack, throw in sleepbags, drive to Boca. Bikes, beer, full moon, campfire, boys. Now it’s hot…time to chill out and work. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-07-28

• Like father like son…Logan just had his first bowl of Pho…and he decimated it like it was a bowl of gummy worms. I think he could ea … #
• Driving past the Ruby Mountains. Suprised to see patches of snow still hanging on. Glad to be back in Nevada! #
• The Tour de Fat is going down in Truckee right now and we’re still cruising back from Salt Lake City. It’s going to be tight to make it. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-07-27

• Why would you not design a cell phone’s SMS default display to show a full 160 character message w/o having to scroll? Symbian OS rocks. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-07-25

• Rode hills around the UofU. Now watching fireworks for Utah’s Pioneer day from Swany’s deck. #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-07-22

• LoganCody ‘n I got caught in thunderstorm mobbin’ Mt. crested Butte base area. Now we’re soaked’n watching the lightening from the veranda #
• Downloading a rough cut of the Modest Mouse video Justin shot with Cody in it. The song is ‘Little Motel’ and its gonna be sad. #
• @ jkenzer in nutshell: harry dies. hermoine hooks up with malfoy. voldermote joins MoveOn. dumbledore is busted for misdemeanor possession #
• Jess just killed me on an epic ride: Tony’s, upper, upper upper, strand, strand bonus, ferris creek, brush creek, lower upper, tony’s. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-07-20

• Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s Tech Thursday at the Desert Research Institute going down now. Virtual Reality cave tour! #
• Just got home fr office. Gonna take a shower and wak up. Ping me with a story #
• Just ran in to Scott P.’s dad…way cool/nice guy. Small world! #
• I made it from my house to So. Lake Tahoe in an hour this morning. Can I make it back to Reno in an hour? #
• Drove 2 Tahoe, gave three presentations to National Career Tech Teachers, drove bak 2 Reno, packed 4 a week, @ the airport w 3 mins to spare #

Twitter Updates for 2007-07-19

• Getting drilled at the dentist. Chipped a tooth skiing – er wrecking – this spring. Havin’ sooooo much fun right now! This rocks. #
• Birds of feather flock together. Check out this resource of Web 2.0 logos/companies: http://www.go2web20.net/ #

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