Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle

Kelly Smith of Curious Office on the internet, design and photography.

Month: February, 2006

We all have guilty pleasures

My friends know I’m not all that flashy. No huge house on Lake Washington, no airplane, no island in the San Juans. But, I’ve always been a car guy. Since college, I’ve had about 36 cars. I had cars before I could afford cars. In fact, I had cars during times when I couldn’t afford cars, let alone BEFORE I could afford cars. I don’t know why I have this infatuation but I always have. My three most desired cars right now are:

1) Maserati Quattroporte
2) Aston Martin DB9
3) Ferrari F430

Going to Monte Carlo Grand Prix? Drop me a line and let’s meet up!

New blog at Curious Office

Well, better late than never. We finally got our blog up for the office that’s Curious.

What of Flock?

I really don’t think Flock is going to make it even though I love the culture of the company. More and more people are asking themselves why they really need to install yet another application when Firefox does so much already. Firefox is stable and the developer community is vast. Quite simply, Flock doesn’t do [...]

Is the venture capital model dead?

I am most certainly not a venture capitalist. Many of my friends are. But I’m not and in spite of the little venture that we have launched over at Curious Office I’m not about to give any prognosis as to the state of the venture industry. But, I write this because the rash of so-called [...]

Bush’s State of the Union…

So, I thought Bush’s State of the Union was pretty innocuous. But, he did make a comment about his ongoing commitment to stop stem cell research on the basis that “human life is a gift from our creator…” Am I supposed to know who each person thinks created them/us and how am I further supposed [...]