Dave Morin

Tabbed chat. Dear god. Kent, I hope your server is ready for the onslaught you are about to get. I see a tipping point on the horizon…

Chax 1.4 Universal Released

Written from The Grove – San Francisco, California

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Flickr’d by davemorin.

So one of my Haus-Mates sent an email this morning about the visitors we had on our deck at TahoeSkiHaus last night.

They were drinking our Vitamin Water (they must have loved the clever copy on the labels) and drinking our Hamm’s. Then, they tried to go hot-tubbing in our hot tub.

Sweet! Maybe we should give them some space in the loft…

Written from Cupertino, California

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As my good friend Amit put it:

Sometimes the Internet is really cool

It’s funny, just a couple of days prior to Amit blogging about Sketch-it, I had submitted a picture to another fantastically talented illustrator, Paul Schaner, over at iconizeme.com.

Illustrators are finding ways to generate extra income from the thing that they are most passionate about. Creating incredible art.

Scott Moore is an amazing illustrator, and just started a new blog called Sketch-It. Pay him and his remote team a dollar, and they’ll make an incredible illustration for you, of anything you want. Check out the one they did for me of my blog header. You guys rock!!

Dave Morin: An interactive group project.

The internet is really cool. And, as more people harness it to do what they love, its only going to get cooler.

Written from North Beach – San Francisco, California

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Flickr’d by davemorin.

So I woke up to leave the Jupiter yesterday morning, turned on the shower…cold water. Waited a little bit. Still cold. Waited. COLD!

Maybe you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

Cold shower, or not, I headed to the Columbia River Gorge at the base of Mt. Hood. I used to train there back in my formative days as a Junior Olympic Ski Racer during the summer months.

This time, I came in search of harnessing the power of the wind with my glider guru cousin, Dr. Jim Little, ten years my senior (though we are practically identicle twins).

Check it out.

Written from: North Beach – San Francisco

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My current trajectory took me from Houston, Texas to Portland, Oregon last night. I’m here for a work meeting, but I generally love coming to Portland anytime I get a chance.

On this trip, I’ve had two very different hotel experiences. From this:

Four Seasons – Houston

to this:

The Jupiter Hotel – Portland

At the four seasons, my room was filled with mahogany, 600 thread count sheets, and the most palatial curtains I have ever seen. So, I certainly slept well.

But, the shower sucked.

Here at the Jupiter. I walked into a room that looks like the lovechild of IKEA and a Motel 6. Complete with Voss water next to the sink, a bamboo plant, furry pillows, and condoms on the bedstand (a note next to them noting that if you check in after midnight, the charge is only $40 and you can check out at 2PM). Hilarious.

I love that hotels are beginning to get the bed thing. Marriott fully overhauled their beds, the W has ridiculous beds, and many others are finally realizing that sleeping on those weird flat beds with plastic sheets just doesn’t cut it for the business traveler who’s only in the room to do two things: sleep, and shower.

But, the hotels aren’t getting the second half. You start your hotel experience with the bed, and end it with the shower. Most of the time, at the very top end, you’ll run into those showers with the gigantic head which make you feel like you are standing under a virtual waterfall. At the bottom end of the major hotel chains, they’re starting to get it too.

Case in point, the Holiday Inn Express Guest Bathroom Experience.

Here at the Jupiter, though the experience is uber-funky. The shower rocks. And thus, my day started out rocking too.

It’s the little (important) things in the experience that count.

Written from The Jupiter Hotel – Portland, Oregon

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