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Category Archives: Alcorn McBride
AMI Zoom Wine Group Graduation
An In-Person Tasting of Old and Rare Wines # Vintage Wine Locale Value Rating Bordeaux 1 2010 Château Pontet-Canet France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac $224 95 2 2005 Château Lascombes France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux $101 92 3 1995 Dominus Estate Napanook … Continue reading
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Zoom Wine Tasting Videos
(I only recorded sessions where someone couldn’t attend, so this is only about half of them.) 11/2/2020 Vistamar and Crown Point 11/16/2020 McManus and Roblar Petite Sirahs 11/18/2020 Evans Ranch Pinot Noir 2005 and Crozes-Hermitage 2/1/2021 Beckmen and Mollydooker 2/24/2021 … Continue reading
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Moving On
Alcorn McBride was founded in 1986, and we bought our office on Hiawassee in 1992. After 27 years there, we’re moving! We’ll miss our fancy/cluttered space, but we are excited about our new facility, which is just up the road, … Continue reading
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Alcorn McBride Paint Night
Last year’s favorite company activity was paint night at Painting With A Twist, so we decided to repeat it. This time, instead of a lighthouse, we painted a gecko, and it was fun to see how the subject matter encouraged … Continue reading
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Tesla
At the urging of co-workers, I bought one of the first Tesla Model S cars when they first came out, and three years later traded it in for one of the first Model X cars. They are both phenomenal vehicles, … Continue reading
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Steve’s Birthday Food and Wine Festival
For my 60th birthday, everyone at Alcorn McBride got together and secretly planned a spectacular progressive lunch. Each person decorated their office to match one of my interests, and prepared one of my favorite foods. And Martin matched them all … Continue reading
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NASDAQ Powered by…
It’s not every day you see your logo in Times Square!
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This Week in Zendesk
Every Friday afternoon the Alcorn McBride engineers and support team gather to discuss the week’s support tickets, which are tracked in Zendesk. Hence the meeting is called TWIZ. Since it’s late on a Friday, the meeting doesn’t run on any … Continue reading
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Loss
Early Friday morning a pathetic person put a hose through the mailbox slot in the door and flooded a section of our office. Much of the staff was out Friday for an off-site training with fourteen enthusiastic customers, but those … Continue reading
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Backstage at Caesar’s Forum Shops
With our wine group back in Orlando, Linda and I have a few days alone in Las Vegas. Thursday we met Ron Ford of Simon Malls for lunch at Sushi Roku and a backstage tour of the Forum Shops. There … Continue reading
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1937 Silvertone Model 4587A Refurbished
A couple of months ago I posted about my friend, Jim Carstensen’s project to refurbish his father-in-law’s 1937 Silvertone radio. The project is now complete, and I wanted to post these before and after photos of the assembled console. What … Continue reading
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Silvertone Model 4587A Tuning Indicator
My friend Jim Carstensen restores old radios as a hobby. His latest project is one that belonged to his father-in-law’s father. It was made by Sears in the 1930s. He hasn’t yet begun restoring the beautiful wood console, but he … Continue reading
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Theme Park Book PR
Some nice PR from the December 16, 2010 West Orange Times, courtesy of Loren.
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Alcorn McBride Christmas Party 2010
We had a great time at the Alcorn McBride Christmas party last night. This year we hired Puff ‘n Stuff to cater the event, and they did a great job. It was nice to have more time to spend with … Continue reading
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IAAPA 2010
This year’s IAAPA show (and the next ten years!) is back in Orlando. I did a book signing to benefit Give Kids the World. It was nice to see so many old friends who dropped by, but I think I’m … Continue reading
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Festival of the Masters
This weekend is the 35th annual Festival of the Masters at Downtown Disney. Linda and Ryan and I went to Paradiso 37 at Pleasure Island. (Ryan is a programming intern from England, working on iPad apps. He’s here for IAAPA.) … Continue reading
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Lighting Pad Redux
I released LightingPad to the app store today. Ryan put in the save cuelist feature, which works great. We’ll see how long it takes to get approved. All packed and ready for the trip to Evanston.
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Harry Potter and Tchoup Chop
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened today at Universal Studios (although the ever-reliable CBS News reported it was Disney World). It uses our HD uncompressed video players for Forbidden Journey, what is now the world’s best theme park ride … Continue reading
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Ryan at Bern’s
We drove to Tampa for dinner with Ryan and his family, who are visiting from the UK. Ryan will be here for two weeks of training, but I’ll be in Chicago then, so I wanted to meet him before I … Continue reading
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Habibi
We received some good press today for our exhibits at the InfoComm show in Las Vegas, including a video that the press posted on YouTube featuring my LightingPad app. For lunch, Audrey and I went to a new Lebanese place … Continue reading
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HD Binloops
Had a very interesting telephone conference today. We discussed the specs for a new HD reproducer card that would meet their requirements for a high def Binloop that could output 4:2:2. We have a potential IP core, but they’re asking … Continue reading
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LightingPad
Ryan Davies, my 17 year old programmer helper from England, finished the changes on my LightingPad app for the iPad, just in time for it to go with Jeremy to InfoComm in Las Vegas. It looks cool!
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Fondue
Today Loren arranged a fondue lunch in honor of Crystal’s upcoming wedding. There were cheese and chocolate fondues and lots of things to dip. They also gave Crystal a fondue pot of her own, and a cookie sheet — a … Continue reading
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Rock & Roll
A busy day back at work after the long weekend. Last month was the first time we broke $800K in a month. This month looks good, too, with a proposal out for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that … Continue reading
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France 2000
In May, 2000 my Director of Sales, David Geoghegan, and I traveled to Europe to teach Alcorn McBride seminars in Germany and France. We spent three days in Uhingen, outside Stuttgart, then flew via Zurich, to Paris. After meeting with … Continue reading
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Germany
Stuttgart, Germany, October 1999. While visiting our European distributors in nearby Uhingen, I had a chance to enjoy the local Octoberfest, called Volksfest. Sometimes the best part is coming home — in this case from Photokina 2000. Here’s my welcoming … Continue reading
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IAAPA in New Orleans 1996
The annual amusement park show, IAAPA, was in New Orleans in 1996. Here’s a love act with Director of Sales, David Geoghegan.
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