Check out this fantastic video, made by the Society for Geek Advancement. A bunch of my friends are featured in it, which makes it doubly awesome. I agree, whole-heartedly, with the message set forth!

I hit up yesterday’s Social Media Club meetup (co-hosted by SEOMoz), and talked with a bunch of interesting people who had a lot of questions for me. Of course, my friend Kenji Onozawa happened to be on hand, and busted out his Creative Vado so that he could shoot a quick interview. We talk about the Seattle tech scene, Gear Live, and Seattle Mind Camp in this video.

I appeared on KING 5 News here in Seattle to talk about the Twitter on Onstar story that we broke on Gear Live. The segment can be seen above.

This is what happens when you combine a ton of sugar cereals (you know, the ones you loved as a kid and that I love as an adult,) humans, pajamas, and video. And grapefruit. Pleae mentally prepare yourself for the full level of awesome that you will experience by viewing the video above.

Thoughts?!

Watch Alijah do his thing in this video. He tries to tear it up like he’s in a club. Definitely going places!

Today, my son Alijah turns 5 years old, such an amazing milestone in life for any child. This is actually why I’m missing about 70% of CES 2009, since the event pretty much always falls on his birthday. I wanted to be sure I was home for this one. It’s special in so many ways. First, this is the first birthday where he really “gets it” and has a high level of excitement. In fact, this morning when he woke up, he immediately came to tell me that it was his birthday, he is now five, and that he wants to eat at Red Robin. Can’t really argue with that logic. I know, right?

Besides all that though, thinking back to Alijah’s birth, it’s such a reminder of the true miracle that he is here with us, and that he is okay. For those that don’t know, Alijah was born almost 3 months early, and spent 11 weeks in intensive care, the first 9 of which were spent on a respirator that did his breathing for him. He weighed in at less than 2 pounds when he was born, and the entire situation just looked dire. Like every parent out there, I remember that day as if it were yesterday. Monica was having painful cramps, so we went to the emergency room at what I think was around 3 AM. The pain was getting worse by the minute, and by the time I had parked (after dropping her off at the front door with a nurse) and got to the floor that she was on, I could hear her screaming from the hallway. Easy way to find her room, if nothing else.

A video that my friend Lee LeFever (and his wife Sachi) did, titled “Saving Money In Plain English” as part of their top-notch Common Craft Show. Give it a look if you’ve never seen their work, or if you want to go back to the basics of saving in this rocky economy.

We are snowed in, so Monica decided to make a snow angel (after some gentle prodding) - then Alijah decides to join her.

We are in the midst of a crazy snow storm, so we decided to take a walk outside once things started to calm down a bit.

Just had to share this. Many think Steve Jobs is a robotic overlord in a massive technology sub-culture. While that may be true, he is also part human apparently, and he shows it beautifully at this commencement address at Stanford in 2005, telling three stories from his life and the lessons he learned from them. Worth watching.