Hi, I’m Eric Thoreson, a former attorney turned entrepreneur. I run ClassifiedAds.com. Previously I founded Camp 5 Media, and I have been fortunate to work at some great companies including Marchex, InfoSpace and T-Mobile.I live in Seattle with my wife and two children. I’m a skier, aspiring golfer and Apple fanboy. I get way too excited about Husky football.Tumblr (3.0; @ericthoreson)http://www.ericthoreson.com/<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/18200428574/tumblr_lzwxdvn0eU1qz4h46&color=FFFFFF&logo=soundcloud" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>Favorite new song, full album available April 3, 2012</p> <p><a href="http://thelumineers.com/">http://thelumineers.com/</a></p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/18200428574http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/18200428574Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:41:55 -0800<p>Heh, I’ve wondered about this for years but never took the time to dig into it. When referring to being out of the office, why does it get shortened to “OOF” and not “OOO” as seems logical?</p> <p>Like most things, it turns out this is a legacy from a previous technical definition. According to the <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2004/07/12/180899.aspx">Exchange Team Blog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>OOF was a command used in the days of Microsoft’s Xenix mail system, which set a user as ‘Out of Facility’ - ie Out of the Office. The usage of the term ‘OOF’ just stuck.</p> </blockquote>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/12974959047http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/12974959047Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:05:56 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp03h2v9Ih1qz4h46o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/picture-of-the-day-congress-gets-a-fail-whale/242592/">Touche</a>!</p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/8132558573http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/8132558573Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:36:38 -0700<object width="400" height="292"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JasonFried_2010X-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JasonFried-2010X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1014&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_tedx;theme=not_business_as_usual;event=TEDxMidwest;tag=Business;tag=Culture;tag=Design;tag=Technology;tag=creativity;tag=work;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="400" height="292" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JasonFried_2010X-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JasonFried-2010X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1014&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_tedx;theme=not_business_as_usual;event=TEDxMidwest;tag=Business;tag=Culture;tag=Design;tag=Technology;tag=creativity;tag=work;"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Brilliant. (<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work.html">Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work</a>)</p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7874972719http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7874972719Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:16:00 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lolr7uuEGS1qz4h46o1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110719/yahoo-revenues-down-again-in-2q-and-microsoft-search-deal-gets-blame/">Yahoo Revenues Down Again in 2Q, With Weakness in Search and Display Ad</a></p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7819520479http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7819520479Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:45:30 -0700<a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/12/apples_new_macbook_airs_to_bring_back_backlit_keyboards_sources.html">AppleInsider | Apple's new MacBook Airs to bring back backlit keyboards</a>: <p>I bought one generation too early.</p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7561670180http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7561670180Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:22:43 -0700<p>I think this may become my “personal” site, maintaining a Wordpress custom install is just too much trouble for my limited use.</p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7562871478http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/7562871478Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:59:00 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dI5xSdhwdjY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Wow.  Inspirational.  Go Lance!</p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/134219041http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/134219041Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:12:37 -0700<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/4238176" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Awesome!</p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/109338256http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/109338256Sun, 17 May 2009 21:37:04 -0700“David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time.<br/> *****<br/> David can beat Goliath by substituting effort for ability—and substituting effort for ability turns out to be a winning formula for underdogs in all walks of life.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all">Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath<br/></a></em>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/103659197http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/103659197Tue, 05 May 2009 00:16:53 -0700“Creating a sustainable startup that can fail indefinitely until it succeeds is the only logical response to the reality of trying to start a successful business.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.jacksonfish.com/blog/2009/04/30/google-style-perks-at-your-scrappy-startup/">Jackson Fish Market » Google style perks at your scrappy startup?</a></em>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/102349113http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/102349113Fri, 01 May 2009 11:47:26 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74mur2070VRBOpuVqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004922.html">gapingvoid</a></p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/101223882http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/101223882Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:03:59 -0700“I stopped working for other people when I wanted to control my own destiny.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.jacksonfish.com/blog/2009/04/27/majority-ownership-and-control/">Jackson Fish Market » Majority Ownership and Control</a></em>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/101215064http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/101215064Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:42:39 -0700““Now, I’m really looking for more of a boutique business, one that’s not going to have more than 24 employees and never more than $10 million to $100 million in sales, but is a dependable cash generator. I look for businesses that have a real niche that’s competitively defendable and people want to pay money for it. I’m not very big into the ‘eyeballs’ and page views and that kind of stuff.””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/startups/entries/2009/04/06/as_angel_investors_pull_back_s.html?cxntfid=blogs_starting_up">Mike Maples<br/></a></em>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/99849310http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/99849310Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:27:20 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74ljyb195gc4IKrgQo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/3387278843/">Rainier Brewery Letterhead - 1904</a></p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/90256489http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/90256489Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:01:48 -0700“Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22friedman.html?src=sch">Are We Home Alone? - NYTimes.com</a></em>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88791848http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88791848Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:34:32 -0700<p><b>by <a href="http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html">Bre Pettis and Kio Stark</a><br/></b></p> <ol><li>There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. </li> <li>Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.</li> <li>There is no editing stage.</li> <li>Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.</li> <li>Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.</li> <li>The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.</li> <li>Once you’re done you can throw it away.</li> <li>Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.</li> <li>People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.</li> <li>Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.</li> <li>Destruction is a variant of done. </li> <li>If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.</li> <li>Done is the engine of more.</li> </ol><p><b>via <a href="http://smarterware.org/994/the-cult-of-done-manifesto-by-bre-pettis-and-kio-stark">Smarterware</a></b></p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88383915http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88383915Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:57:06 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74lb9k8vxoEHh6k8ro1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88374057http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88374057Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:06:58 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74lb9jeh1uH6kNSPQo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88373928http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/88373928Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:06:18 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74l8i71z499oLkLp8o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3365682994/">Get Excited and Make Things</a></p>http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/87795345http://www.ericthoreson.com/post/87795345Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:45:00 -0700