Category Archives: work

It’s been a fun!

By Dave | Published: December 22, 2011

Hey folks, Today is my last day at gdgt. It’s hard to believe that I joined the team almost 3 years ago. Time flies when you’re having fun! It’s been a wild ride, but it’s time for me to pursue some new opportunities in 2012! I want to thank the gdgt community for making my [...]

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According to Foursquare, I’ve been to more airports than bars.

By Dave | Published: October 11, 2011

According to Foursquare, as far as the last 6 months are concerned, I’ve been to more unique airports (11!) than bars (10). And even more unique coffee shops (13) + cafés (11). Is this what being a grownup is like?

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It’s 3:30AM. What are you doing right now?

By Dave | Published: May 15, 2011

It’s 3:30AM. What are you doing?, originally uploaded by Dave Schumaker. We’re hard at work, launching the next version of gdgt! (It’s been crazy. We’re at about 19 straight hours of cranking on this right now.)

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Missed gdgt live in SF? Watch it on TWiT!

By Dave | Published: November 14, 2010

Part 1 – (Fast forward to 1 hour and 39 minutes in the video, that’s when the coverage starts in this particular video): http://www.justin.tv/twit/b/273782240 Part 2 – http://www.justin.tv/twit/b/273789393 Part 3- http://www.justin.tv/twit/b/273796620

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What a tough crowd

By Dave | Published: October 1, 2010

Via our internal team chat this morning at work. You think there’d be more Project Runway fans around, since we all appreciate good design here.

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Civ V and OS X – A mark of desperation

By Dave | Published: September 23, 2010

I’m currently somewhere over New York state, flying Virgin America back from Boston (where we had our gdgt live event last night). I only brought my iPad with me on this trip. Which is painful, because Civilization V is currently out! So, I wanted to see if it was even possible to play. Are you [...]

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My biggest environmental consulting fear

By Dave | Published: September 10, 2010

My old office In what seems like another lifetime, I used to be a geologist for an environmental consulting company here in the Bay Area. One of my biggest fears was drilling through a gas line. We were often in the field, supervising remediation projects or gathering data in preparation for a remediation project. This [...]

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The new office!

By Dave | Published: July 2, 2010

Exciting times!

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The moment it happened

By Dave | Published: June 24, 2010

Skip to about 40 seconds in to see the action. The vocal urging, frustration at Dempsey’s miss, then pure elation when Landon scored were exactly the same at the pub I was at in San Francisco. It was an awesome moment that I won’t soon forget. And they say Americans don’t like soccer.

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Sharing your gadgets

By Dave | Published: June 19, 2010

This week, we rolled out a new feature at gdgt that allows users to embed their gadget lists onto their own personal website or blog. It’s a pretty awesome way to show off what gadgets you have or want, and even foster new discussion about the technology you’re passionate in. We previously had a flash [...]

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