Copyright infringement will ALWAYS happen until content owners provide an easy way to sell their content to consumers. Cable = not an easy way to sell their content to consumers. Take HBO for example…instead of selling me their content directly (which I would happily pay for), they put a middle man in there (cable co) and make me jump through hoops to consume the content. So why WOULDN’T I obtain it in the easiest way possible (stealing)? This is not a hard concept to wrap your head around, unless you’re a 65 year old executive for a content creation company. And legislation will NOT fix the problem. Solution: you own content? Sell it to me directly. Threat = neutralized.

2011 passed in a happy blur of seeing the world, working hard, and most importantly, in good health. With the windows open on my way to a loft dinner party overlooking downtown Nashville and it’s fireworked revelry, I give you 2011 by the numbers.

Days on the road: 122
Miles traveled (by car or plane): 60,418
Cities visited: 23 (Houston, London, New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio, Austin)
1/2 marathons run: 1
Miles traveled (by foot): 339.95
Colonoscopies: 0
Best piece of music to come out of 2011, if ever: Holocene, by Bon Iver.