This past week, I finally got around to watching Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture.” For the 7 or 8 of you that have yet to see this (I’ve got a 4-month-old at the house… what’s your excuse?), the video of the Pausch’s inspirational lecture has been viewed by an estimated 6 million+ people. Pausch’s topic was…
The Trouble With Wine Ratings: Part 2
I’m glad to see that my post last week on the potential troubles with the 100 point wine rating system has spurred so much interesting dialog in the wine “blogosphere” (man, we really need another word for that…). Probably the most interesting conversation on this was triggered by Steve Heimoff’s response on his excellent Unreserved…
What the Heck Kind of Wine are You, Anyway? The Wrap-Up
Last week I played around with one of those kitschy on-line questionnaires, which, since it had to do with wine, I found not-so-kitschy anymore. The questionnaire/quiz was titled “What Kind of Wine are You?“, hosted at BlogThings.com, and the on-line wine geek community seems to have really taken to it, based on all of the…
The Trouble With Wine Ratings (an Introduction to the 89 Project)
Excellence. You deserve it. You demand it. It haunts you. It drives you. It’s so Powerful. It makes you. Speak. In Broken. Sentences. We’re obsessed with comparing things when we make purchases, especially in the U.S. Some of us are always out there looking for the best. Even in today’s excellence-obsessed status-quo-chasing society, no one…