[Photo Removed] Sample Photo from Danger Zante, originally uploaded by s4xton.

Browsing around Flickr I noticed that two Danger, Inc. employees (larf, Rubin 110) were posting photos that contained EXIF tags saying the device taking the photo was a "Danger Zante." While various rumor sites and mobile device blogs have been speculating about a new device from Danger, there was almost zero evidence that one even existed.

I quickly inquired with my friend who runs hiptop3.com and he seemed really surprised that I knew anything about the Zante. He posted my findings and then within a few hours I'm on Gizmodo as "a bored Sidekick fan by the name of Aaron Landry." Ha. I'm certainly not a Sidekick fan anymore and while they linked everything else they didn't link my name to my site. I wasn't really bored either. The story also showed up on übergizmo without any links at all. Silly.

UPDATE: Now also on Engadget... Now also on Mobile Guerilla.
Either way, the Danger employees promptly pulled the photos they leaked, but not before I nabbed two of them.
UPDATE: They asked me to remove them, and I complied.

So now we have two pieces of information about a forthcoming device from Danger, Inc.: It is currently named "Zante" and the camera sucks.

UPDATE: Danger employee obviously not happy with me (aka Internet Drama).
UPDATE: Danger employee removes photo of me from Flickr and immediately I get anonymous comments calling me out on "bullshit." God bless the internets.

I'm glad I go eastbound to the suburbs from Minneapolis in the morning and back to the city in the evening.

Last night I met the man behind Banana Name. Check it out, monkeys. P.S. Here's my banana!

Mindy and I were at 4 games to 4... I was clearly winning the last round (see last photo) and she guesses "is it Eric?" She owned me. 

Roommate Allen was out late last night and had his car parked on a residential street in Lakeville, MN. When he got back to his car there was a ticket from Dakota County but there was no offense listed. It contained his personal information, his car's information, the location of the car and a court date if he wants to plead not guilty to... no offense. As far as he is aware, he was legally parked. He also did not get a fine schedule but did get an envelope.

Over 35 people came over last night to enjoy some beers from DUO Brewing Co. I had time to take only a few photos. Dave took some more photos and Bill and Ed wrote more about it. Good times and great beer.

Went to check out the new Parkway Pizza in my neighborhood which replaced Goff's. A big "Grand Opening" banner hung on the side and on a Saturday afternoon it is closed.

UPDATE 10 Feb 07: I visited today (after 4pm this time) and it is indeed better than Goff's. Interior is cleaner but still pretty stale but they put in a pool table. They're even looking to get a beer license.

UPDATE 11 May 08: After having them number of times, I wrote more about Parkway Pizza in Minneapolis. [see other posts] They never got that beer license, by the way.