Category Archives: Personal

All things related to Michael Marotta. My main interests include food, mixed martial arts, music, news, health, design, and technology.

DC Weekend In Review

I had a great weekend taking in 5 really great DC destinations and events. 1) Tech Cocktail Tech Cocktail is a meet up for tech folk to hang out and make connections in a fun venue. It was started by … Continue reading

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Revolution Health Launches!

So this is a bit late, partly due to being away at a conference and other stuff. But just wanted to make the official announcement that my company’s site, RevolutionHealth.com has had its official version 1.0 launch a few weeks … Continue reading

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Back from CHI2007

I got back from CHI2007 a couple days ago and I must say it was a blast! It was my second conference and my 3D Dental Records project from senior year got in as a poster presentation. CHI was held … Continue reading

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I got on TV!

Some of the pages and tools I designed at Revolution Health got on to TV! See below for the video. NBC news in New York, I believe, was talking about online health sites they like. The two sites reviewed were … Continue reading

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Jose Andre rocks my taste buds

What a weekend for food this weekend.  My sister was in town which is always a great excuse go out on the town and try some DC restaurants. It turned out to be a weekend of grazing over tapas and … Continue reading

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Ipacak songs posted

So it looks like my high school band, Ipacak, has finally thrown in the towel.  I was the lead guitarist of the band for 4 years and it was a pretty good run with two albums released and a battle … Continue reading

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Door gym

So we just got the wicked cool Door Gym in our apartment. This has got to have one of the highest cool-to-complexity ratios ever (ie very cool and so simple). You literally just put it through your door frame and … Continue reading

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GotVoice?

Have you ever had an awesome voicemail you’ve wanted to download? Or maybe you just wished you could keep better track of your messages from multiple phones all in one place. Well, those were both me and I found an … Continue reading

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New York Bans Transfat

I’m so glad to see New York City looking out for their citizens and cutting out transfat from restaurant foods. Transfat is a terribly unhealthy substance used as a cheap substitute for natural saturated fat sources, and a large part … Continue reading

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The price of safety

I’m tired of hearing claims that the Bush administration’s war has been victorious in keeping us safe because we haven’t had a single death in the US since 9/11. To me, this is just insulting to the Americans in Iraq. … Continue reading

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Moved server, intial GoDaddy impressions

Just moved my site and blog over to a new server.  I took the plunge and got some hosting at GoDaddy.com for pretty darn cheap.  It seems like it meets most of my needs so far like php support which … Continue reading

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Data visualization reading

I ordered a bunch of books recently. I really need to get on reading all these books instead of buying more. Here’s one I just got today. I’ve been working on a new health tool at work and need to … Continue reading

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