Jordan Schwartz
About: Taking a bit of time off after an 11 yr stint at Microsoft. Travelling Europe. Then back to Seattle for mobile social software.
Blog Posts
Sundial talk at Gnomedex
--You may rememeber that I'm in the process of building a green wall cum sundial (or sundial cum green wall) next to my hives. I'll be giving a short...
Bee Update / Sculpture Kick-Off
--Checked out the hives last week. I had expected that with the cool weather, the hives would be as stunted as my tomato plants, but was pleasantly s...
Bee Swap!
--I swear, you can't make things like this up. Last year, Nerve.com published a Sex advice from a beekeeper article, featuring advice from yours trul...
Growing
--My neighbor Lesli popped over yesterday to drop off some empty jars. She'd been asking for a tour for some time, so I took advantage of the excuse ...
Rorschach Declined
--One of the treats of having bees in your backyard is that you can just sit down next to the hive whenever you feel like it and pass the time, watch...
Movin' on up
--Amanda, a reader of this blog, wrote to ask whether new supers generally go on top of existing honey supers or below. I answered that the second su...
Wrong Way Follow-up
--Alyssa gave me on update on the results of yesterday's debacle:Well, this morning I went and found them just as we left them, all nestled into the ...
The Wrong Way
--It's amazing the things you know that you didn't realize you knew.I got a call from Alyssa today, one of her three hives had swarmed and she wanted...
Hives and Dials
--Mixed news on the hives. I checked in on them a couple weeks back and everything seemed pretty peachy. Good healthy brood pattern in both hives (se...
Beauty and the Bee
--The New York Times Magazine had a beautiful set of bee-themed fashion photos today. I couldn't find an on-line version, so I snapped a few pictures...
Beepoint
--As promised, my slides from the Jackson Fish Market talk. They got a little munged in converting from Powerpoint, and they probably won't make much...
Cold Days, Fireside Chat
--Just finishing up prepping my beekeeping talk for tomorrow night's talk at Jackson Fish Market's product launch. If you're in Seattle, stop by. Hop...
Bee Christmas
--The bee Santa Claus came to town today, and I felt just like a kid on Christmas morning...a Christian kid...cuz I'm Jewish, so Christmas morning wa...
And in my hat...
--My new colonies of bees arrive Wednesday! I'll let you know how it goes, and I'll be helping Richard, an old friend and a new beekeeper, get his hi...
Hipster Beekeeper
--This guy is my kinda beekeeper. Chill.(From the SFist, thanks Out)
Back on the (bee) horse
--Just put in my order for two packages of Italian bees, due in April 16th . Prices are up, $104 + tax each for four pounders, marked queens.On advic...
Haagen Bee
--Ed, a reader, sent me an interesting link to an NPR story about a donation by Haagen Daz (the ice cream maker) towards bee research. They say it's ...
Mighty Mite
--In my last post, I wrote that I was planning to measure the mite level in my remaining surviving hive and would report back the results.The result ...
Mighty Mite
--In my last post, I wrote that I was planning to measure the mite level in my remaining surviving hive and would report back the results.The result ...
Might be Mites
--Commenter "out" left a suggestion as to why I may have lost one of my hives (hint: not CCD). Noting that in North America, it's not a question of w...
Might be Mites
--Commenter "out" left a suggestion as to why I may have lost one of my hives (hint: not CCD). Noting that in North America, it's not a question of w...
Dare Not Speak Its Name
--Yesterday, I finally got around to checking the bees after returning from our three month sojourn in Europe and got a bit of a surprise. Hive 1, wh...
Give the gift of bees
--Imagine the looks on your friend's faces when they open the box under the tree and out fly a brand new hive of bees!OK, that is probably not a grea...
Laurisilva
--What are those little white dots speckling the cliff wall of this sharp-cragged ravine? Bee hives, of course. As previously noted, every man, woman...
Honey is hot
--Best as I can tell, every man, woman and child in Europe keeps bees. No really, I just can't get over how every store, every market, every roadside...
Honeycomb Vase
--The New York Times' year end magazine special "The Year in Ideas" is always full of treats, and this year is no exception. For obvious reasons, my ...
Custom Paint Job
--Took a nice bicycle ride out of Florence today up the Arno River and then left into the countryside and came upon these colorfully painted hives. N...
Sixty Bees of Separation
--Found this little beauty in the Piazza Santissima Annunziata in Florence, 60 bees surrounding their queen on the rear side of the statue of F...
Bees Make Good
--Two recent news articles relevant to bees and the hive mind: Bumblebee boogie analysis in webserver boost: The title has it wrong, as the algorithm...
Roach Clip
--Another article on the Hive Mind, this one from NPR.org: Robots Infiltrate, Influence Cockroach Groups. In this one, scientists have somehow progra...
NYT on the HM
--Interesting article in Tuesday's New York Times on s Swarm Intelligence, a favorite topic here: From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm.Ito does ...
Hello Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
--If you're visiting this site because you saw my talk at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, Willkommen! As a bit of background, I'm taking a break from so...
Hydromel
--Apparently, they call mead "hydromel" (water honey?) in France. I found a bottle sealed with beeswax at a little farmer's market in the absolutely...
C'est beaucoup du miel
--When you think of France, you think of wine (and snails and frog's legs), right? Well, I swear there are as many varieties of honey here as there a...
Pan et Oursons
--We delight at each touch of honey on our travels. At Musee D'Orsay in Paris, for example, we found this beautiful sculpture , "Pan et oursons" by E...
Waxin' Poetic
--Remember how I said I put some old, crystallized honey out for the bees to clean out of the jars? I had expected there to be a bit of wax that made...
We're off!
--As y'all know, Michelle and I are leaving for a 3 month wander through Europe tonight. We'll be back at the end of November. If you want to keep a...
Wrapping Up and Heading Out
--Took care of the various and sundry "final housekeeping" tasks on the hives in prep for my big trip (M and I leave for a three month trip through E...
Honey Harvest, Part III
--Picked up my harvest from Mike today. Ten gallons, 113 lbs of pure golden brown honey. And ooo-la-la does it taste good! Michelle and I did a compa...
How's That For Timing?
--This is not the article you want to wake up to as you're planning your three month trip through Europe (unless, I suppose, you're European): Dolla...
Honey Harvest, Part II
--When we left off my last post, Honey Harvest Part I, I'd loaded my three and a half supers of Hive Mind 2007 honey into the back of my Subaru (alon...
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Comments
thanks for the help jordan. so are you guys going to have this up for the web 2.0 expo in berlin? that would be excellent. hope we get to talk more then and not just about my technical problems. it was great to meet you. see you soon.
oh fantastic, you're coming to the web 2.0 expo in Berlin as well. we're sponsors of that one, so i will be there too. hope to see you soon.
As weird as that sounds, indeed I do work for a bee keeper. Looking forward to meeting you :)