Goals for 2010

Reading this post from Andrew Hyde, I was inspired to make a list of goals for 2010. I have a few already, just haven’t written ‘em down or shared them with the world.

  • Blog here more
  • Get out there in the Boulder tech community
  • Get my muscle-up (What the hell is a muscle-up? Video)
  • Write more for the CU Independent
  • Learn to Olympic lift
  • Hike more
  • Launch more iPhone apps
  • Get funded for something
  • Skydive
  • Perform some music
  • Write an EP or an album
  • Go white water rafting
  • See Tom Petty, Social Distortion and Bruce Springsteen live (separately)
  • Meditiate every day (5-10 minutes)
  • Learn to deal with stress better
  • Go to London
  • Get into the Founder Institute
  • Eat more healthfully

Some are done and crossed off, others are half done and some are on the way.

Here’s to a great rest of 2010.

The App Store’s Holiday Effect

(Source: Incase Designs)

MobileCrunch is reporting that the App Store is breaking records this holiday season, doubling its growth from November to December. Apple, not coincidentally, has also sold record amounts of iPhones and iPod Touches in the past few weeks. So now what? We’ve got to fill them up, right?

App sales have also soared alongside hardware sales. According to TechCrunch apps like Skee-ball (sold nearly 48,000 copies - 10x the sales of the previous Friday), Doodle-Jump (80,000 copies, up from 15,000), and Tap Tap Revenge 3 (downloaded 700,000 times) experienced Christmas Day surges. Surely these three apps aren’t alone.

Other companies with featured apps surely experiences surges in downloads as well as new iPhone and iPod Touch owners rushed to begin filling their home screens.

Remember when you were younger and all the kids were asking for Furbies or Cabbage Patch dolls? Well now they’re asking for iPods, iPods bundled with an app store toting 100,000+ apps.

Both MobileCrunch and TechCrunch have made it clear: developers are more than happy with the holiday surge in sales of Apple’s touchscreen devices. More iPods mean more potential customers and developers listed in the Top 25 on the App Store couldn’t be happier as kids hit the “Buy App” button on Christmas Day.

I And Love And You

The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You

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The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You

I’m road-tripping from Maryland to North Carolina to see The Avett Brothers on New Years Eve. The 8-10 hour drive should be well worth it.