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Grockit Hires A Badass Boy Scout From Google As CEO
Sep 1st
Online learning site Grockit is scaling up its leadership team after raising $7 million last May. Today it is announcing that it is hiring Roy Gilbert as CEO. Gilbert is Google’s director of user operations and policy, in charge of many non-advertising operations. He helped set up Google’s India operations and grew it from 20 people to 1,000, and was the first business manager for Gmail.
Founder Farb Nivi recruited Gilbert, who will also be taking a board seat. Nivi will be president, chief product officer, and chairman. “I kind of look at him as our Eric Schmidt,” says Nivi, who came back getting hit by a minivan last year to keep his startup going and growing.
Gilbert served in the military driving nuclear submarines, and yes, he was a boy scout. But he also comes from a family of teachers, and he and his wife started a school in Hyderabad while he was in India for underprivileged children called the Rainbow Primary School. So he has education chops as well. “I pretty much can’t believe we landed him,” says Nivi.
Nivi also recently hired a chief marketing officer, Chris Strausser, who created the Jamba Juice brand, and previously worked at PepsiCo and Kaplan. Knewton, another online education startup, also recently made a top executive hire. The whole education space is definitely heating up.
Via | TechCrunch
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Snoopy e gli altri: il Charles M. Schulz Museum di Santa Rosa, California
Feb 20th
Poco più di dieci anni fa moriva uno dei più grandi disegnatori di fumetti di tutti i tempi: Charles M. Schulz, padre dei Peanuts, la tenerissima combriccola di bambini capitanata da Charlie Brown e dal suo cane “pensante” Snoopy. Non poteva mancare, negli Stati Uniti, un museo dedicato al diegnatore e ai suoi personaggi.
Si trova a Santa Rosa, California, ed ospita una collezione permanente di vignette (ovviamente), foto, prodotti legati ai Peanuts, libri e via dicendo. C’è inoltre un piccolo cinema nel piano interrato, con proiezione continua di filmati. La struttura ospita anche diverse mostre tematiche, attualmente ce ne sono tre in corso, dedicate a Snoopy boy scout, al ballo e alla realizzazione delle strisce domenicali. A proposito di domenica, è il giorno della cioccolata calda gratis per tutti!
L’ingresso al museo costa 10 dollari, per i minori di 18 anni e maggiori di 62; 5 dollari, i bambini sotto i 4 anni non pagano. E poco lontano non poteva mancare la Snoopy’s Home, una pista di pattinaggio con annesso negozio di prodotti dei Peanuts. Santa Rosa si trova ad un centinaio di chilometri a nord di San Francisco, lungo la Route 101. Sul sito sono comunque disponibili informazioni dettagliate per raggiungere il posto.
Via | travelblog.it
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Civil War Re-enactment — Brooksville, Florida, United States
Jan 17th
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Brooksville, Florida, United States
Today was the 30th annual re-enactment of the Civil War battle in Brooksville. Neither Glenn nor I had ever been to one before and it was a neat day. The weather was overcast and in the low 70s which I’m sure the participants were grateful for. I can’t imagine how hot they must get in their wool uniforms. We spent a lot of time walking through the Confederate and Union camps; there were lots of sutlers (they were government employees who sold goods to the troops and were on hand with lots of period items). There were a lot of people dressed in period costumes; it was a fun day. They said the reenactors spend up to a couple thousand dollars outfitting themselves.
The reenactment took place at the Sand Hill Boy Scout reserve so the reenactment benefitted the Scouts, which was a nice perk.
The raid originally took place in July 1864 and was not a large battle but the re-enactment is the largest in Florida. Last year there were 1500 reenactors and this year looked to be the same. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Via | TravelPod
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Find True North with Just Your Watch [Outdoors]
Jan 3rd
We’ve shown you how to find north with a nothing more than a stick in the ground. It’s a neat trick, but not the only way to figure out where you are without a compass.
Photo by John Carmichael.
Over at the Wired How-To wiki they’ve rounded up a collection of tips on smart ways to locate which way is north when you don’t have a GPS or boy scout nearby. They’ve got quite a few methods to choose from, but one of our favorites uses nothing more than your watch and the sun.
1. Take into account the cursed daylight saving by subtracting 1 hour in summer time (moving the hour hand counter clockwise 1 hour).
2. Face your analog watch, align it so that the hour hand points in the direction of the sun (you might have to twist your wrist a bit, or take it off).
3. Now imagine a line starting from the center of the dial halving the angle between the hour dial and 12 o’clock. This line will point south.
Of course, you’ll need to take a different approach if you’re near the equator or in the south hemisphere.
Hit up the post to check out a bunch of other ideas for locating true north, including a clever one that involves satellite dishes. Who’s got more tips for getting out a jam when you’ve gotten yourself lost? Share them in the comments.
Find North Without a Compass [via Wired How-To Wiki]
Via | Lifehacker
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