So, we’ve taken a number of field trips over the past year to learn about coffee roasters and meet potential vendors at the farmers’ market and check out the chickens that’ll be laying our fresh eggs for the café. The latest trip was a little jaunt out west on 290, in the Oak Hill area, [...]

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The public cafe area at LaunchPad Coworking is an atrium 3 stories high. The ceiling is all skylights, making for really lovely natural light throughout.
We decided to take advantage of all that space by cantilevering a 6th meeting room over the cafe. What you’re seeing here is the framework for the Sky Room. It’s small [...]

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On a recent, lovely Sunday afternoon, Julie, Michael, Tina and I headed out to Bastrop to visit our friends, Sue Beckwith and Jules Assata, owners of Shades of Green Farm. Julie and I have known Sue just this side of forever through high-tech ventures. These days Sue and Jules are in the chicken business, raising [...]

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I spoke at InnoTech last week — it’s always good to have a chance to spread the coworking word. Overall the gathering was okay — not great but okay. I prefer the more geeky BarCamp and similar events and InnoTech was pretty heavy on the suits. That said, telecommuters were well represented and seemed very [...]

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Sandbox Suites is a 4500 square foot coworking space in San Francisco founded by a husband and wife team, Roman Gelfer and Sasha Vasilyuk. They offer both monthly and daily rates plus additional pay-for services on demand including: mailing address, laptop rentals, concierge services and more. Sandbox just celebrated their first birthday. I hit up [...]

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The September/October issue of Utne Reader makes a case for Barack Obama as the ultimate coworker. In an interview with Dana D. Nelson called Presidential Power to the People, reporter David Schimke discusses executive power with the author — how much is too much?

Nelson suggests that the presidential role has turned into that of superhero [...]

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I’m such a fan of the Venn Diagram that I think my friends get sick of me citing this handy illustration of overlap. But you know, if something lends itself well to the discussion I’m all in favor of trotting out the device repeatedly. That said, let’s take a look at my latest cross section, [...]

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So we started working on menu ideas nearly a year ago. We’ve had tastings and brainstorming sessions. We’ve ruled items in and we’ve ruled them out. And the one thing that’s continually stumping our panel is COLESLAW.
Now, we’re sure we want coleslaw on the menu, so that’s not the issue. But we have yet to [...]

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One of the upsides of the ridiculous prices of gas is that more people are riding bikes. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough places to park them.
I found this makeshift bike rack right around the corner from LaunchPad Coworking. We’re working with the city to get more proper racks installed.
Update: This email came from the City of [...]

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Possibly soon. Plantronics is sponsoring a contest in an attempt to coin a new phrase to replace the word “telecommuter”. The contest runs until October 24, 2008, so if you want to enter, no slacking.
Actually, if you go to the rules page, you’ll see they are officially trying to replace the word “teleworker”, however when [...]

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