Cloudy day view of Chelsea Piers from the lobby of Martha Stewart’s
offices on the West Side.

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Lucas played in his first Lacrosse tournament today at the Torne
Valley Bubble in Suffern. They finished 2-1 on the day and won first
place! Lucas played extremely well and scored a goal!

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Our annual visit to the cigar capital of the world.

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Check out this five foot long Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake that
crossed our path on the way to the mountain bike trails at Flatwoods
Nature Preserve in Tampa, FL.

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Trail riding, technically, since there are no mountains (or hills, for
that matter) in this part of the world. Lucas is doing great despite a
few "are we there yets?" He is just telling me actually that he was
the first human ever, in a past life.

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Pepe and Grandpa Win take orders as General Lucas barks commands for
additional parts.

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I am pretty sure this is where the thigh meets the hip, on what used
to be a pig. Merry Christmas!!!

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On a Trek "Clyde."

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Our palace is just as we left it. Pink, sunny and soft.

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Thanks to Tia’s jewelers tools, YouTube instructional videos and a few
Coronas ;-).

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Wish us luck!

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Fell in our backyard yesterday. Beautiful!

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Thanks for all the holiday cheers. we cherish you all.

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And it felt so good this morning!

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This one will go in the master bedroom Yes, Brad… It’s pine. Don’t
hate me! (It’ll be painted and all funked up when it’s done. At least
that’s my plan)

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If you are a Web 2.0 developer, or are thinking of becoming one, you want to listen to the advice of Mike Sommers, the Product Development VP of KickApps.com. Learn about the social graph, SaaS development and the future of cloud computing.

Click here to listen to the interview on the Pixel Heads Network web site.

Click here to subscribe to the “Meet The Experts” podcast on iTunes.

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(warning, there is some profanity, followed by a glimpse at the stapled up gash).

For all you gross heads out there, here is a look at the wound about 5 minutes after it happened.

And if you are really sick, there are some more trauma pictures here.

Thanks to everyone in the KickApps MASH unit who jumped into action and patched me up good for the ride up to Suffern, especially Rahul!

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Pappy gave Lucas and I his tickets to the Giants vs. Eagles game on Sunday, so we braved the frigid temps and cheered on Lucas’ new favorite team. The Giants lost for the first time at home this season, but we still had a great time and got to tailgate with the die hards for a bit.

Click here to see more pictures from Lucas’ first Giants game (click here for a slideshow).

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Here is a link to an article from Yesterday’s New York Post about our recent round of funding (we got another $14 million to keep this dream alive!):

KickApps Getting Real Social With VC Funds

KickApps, a New York-based provider of software for building social networks, has raised $14 million in venture-capital funding, the latest sign that VCs believe that its business model can keep kicking and ultimately, see a tidy profit, despite the current recession.

The financing brings the total Venture-capital funding raised by the two-year-old startup to $32 million, allowing it to add to its sales and marketing staff and to upgrade its platform at a time when most media companies - including social-network sites - are cutting back.

“So far, we seem to be recession proof,” said Alex Blum, CEO of the 70-employee firm, who noted that adoption rates for KickApps social-media services are accelerating because they help brands profit and gain advertising value from social media in a way that other services - such as FaceBook - have failed to do.

While a host of social-networking sites have raised money during the past year in the hopes of building a community from scratch for everything from business travelers to teens and game enthusiasts, KickApps takes a different tack: it provides software to companies to help create online-social networks and related services - including blogs, online video, message boards and widgets.

This has allowed the firm to win several big-name customers such as Rachel Ray, Gossip Girl, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers and Warner Brothers, build upward of 50,000 social networks and attract 10 million viewers a month, according to statistics released by the company.

The firm also provides its corporate customers with an analytics tool - called a Social Graph Engine - that allows them to create detailed profiles of their social-network visitors, noting their likes and dislikes and then serve up targeted ads or even adjust or upgrade products to better suit their customer base.

The funding for KickApps comes at a time when social networks are growing. In August, Comscore, a digital-research firm, reported that on a global basis, traffic on social networking sites grew 25 percent over the past year, attracting over 580 million unique visitors.

Recent funding for KickApps was led by North Atlantic Capital, a venture-capital firm based in Portland, Maine. Repeat investors included Softbank, Spark Capital and Prism Ventures.

Wish us luck!

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Today Maya and I spent some time together while Wendy took Lucas to the doctor for (another) sore throat.. (Yep, it’s Strep again!). I asked Maya to create a superhero and she came up with this concept for “Smart-Man” who has the power to think!

Below is the story that she made up, of how Smart-Man battled with Eric. (Click here to see a larger version)

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