Regarding the dream of a mobile application, I already had a couple of good conversations with one of you who had an idea they wanted to set in motion. Was (is) quite silly, but it would work, and I would buy it… so would many of you. It would be quite fun to build.

One more conversation to get to this week, but if you still have ideas, let me know. I’ll be meeting with the software engineer himself next week and I need to have your idea prior to leaving town Thursday.

I harp with people all the time to “just make a decision”. Taking calculated risks is fun, but they have to be calculated. In my brief 30 years my calculated risks surrounded attending a university where I knew no one, solo backpacking through Europe, and moving to the Pacific Northwest with only a room found on Craigslist and no job.

Some risks proved fruitful, some not. Though despite the outcome I wouldn’t change a thing because even through “failure” a ‘Plan B’ and sometimes ‘Plan C’ and ‘Plan D’ were in place prior to action.

With all that said I’m about to kick my own rear into gear, calculating a next step if I aim to meet one of my 2011 personal goals. One of my goals this year, no matter if it flies or flops, is to launch a mobile app compatible with iOS and Android.

One could easily argue that going it alone is quite silly. Therefore, if you’ve got the idea, then I’ve got the resources. We can even draw up an agreement to prevent one another from going all “Winklevi” on each other.

Hit me up.

Taken in San Francisco during a March business trip.

End result is a creative, unique city service that’s memorable as it is effective.

+ click to enlarge, and bring sunglasses

Long before Jimmy Buffett was wasted away in Margaritaville, he was an undergrad at Southern Miss, wasted away in Hattiesburg.

This weekend, Southern Miss (my love and bain of my college football season existence) is hosting Jimmy Buffett “Parrothead Night”. The pictures speak for themselves.

If you like them, you can buy one:

A few of the team’s jerseys will be sent to Buffett, who will autograph them and return them to USM, which will auction them off.

Proceeds from the auction will go toward the Dugout Club and to a scholarship fund in the name of Buffett’s late mother, Peets, who was a 1940 graduate of the Gulf Park College for Women, now the Southern Miss Gulf Park Campus.

Oh… and if you REALLY like them but don’t want to spend the money, you can download the computer wallpaper.

My words not ~2.5 years ago. And now, I sit on the verge of 9,000 tweets.

To quote Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz:

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way”

Note that it’s not “You break it, you buy it.” That phrase has been repeated so many times, and with such implied anger toward the customer, that it falls on deaf ears.

Take a note from the Christmas Round The Corner store in Fairhope, Alabama and 1) change a cliché message, and 2) stop wagging your finger at a customer during their first interaction with your company.

And not just for the fact that it is set in Seattle. Nor for the gratuitous skyline and scenery flyovers.

It’s an excellent show, and we’re only two hours into it. Watch the two-hour first episode here for free.

(Also, it’s filmed in Vancouver.)

Daxko was a partner at the CalSAE conference in Monterey, California. Nick (Daxko Connect’s product expert) and I spent Saturday morning driving around Silicon Valley on the hunt for some of our favorite dot-coms, Facebook and Google being the main interest.

Sweet Moses, it was perfect.

I’ve driven through Mountain View, Cupertino, Palo Alto, before, but that was long before the web fully took shape.

First, much looks just like any other town you’ve visited. Strip malls and office parks, all of which are unassuming until you see ‘Loopt’ or ‘LinkedIn’ on the side of the building.

Second, you drive past Facebook and never know you passed anything special. We did. Twice.

Third, you cannot drive past Google without knowing you passed anything special. There are signs of the Googleplex long before you reach the main building. ‘Google St’ for example is a not so subtle sign.