January 2009
19 posts
Google Street View Van Takes Out A Deer
Wow. Click through these images in order. http://i41.tinypic.com/2djf2t.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/wvu54k.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/24oafrm.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/waiout.jpg Yes - sad for the deer. Amuzing that its in Google Street View though.
listening to "Real Good Man - Tim McGraw" →
I’ve gotten 123874y23 people hooked on country with this song alone.
listening to "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly... →
How can anyone hate country music? They all tell a story about real life; how much more real can you get than this?
A question of balance
My new equation: Balance=CAPPS
Despite a natural predeliction towards Micawberism, I chose to engage, rather than drift. I also decided that the right equation [for me] depends on me striking an agile balance between five aspects of my life:
Commercial - I need to sustain income
Academic - I am a lifelong learner
Professional - I want to contribute
Personal - what was sometimes called...
Your worst enemy is your best friend.
Today, I had a revelation about a play on words. Double negatives strike again.
Your worst enemy is your best friend. ‘Worst enemy’ is essentially a double negative; if two individuals are ‘worst enemies’, then they are terribly unsuccessful at being enemies. Thus they are best friends. Q.E.D.
“The aesthetics of the automobile view are shaped by the brief encounter, a quick...”
– Zoomscape, p. 72
Three Smart Things About Sleeping Late
Night owls are more creative. Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, evening people almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.
Rising early is stressful. The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7am, so if you get...
ChaCha on Babies
Questioner: Where do babies come from?
ChaCha: Mom and Dad have a romantic liaison, his sperm fertilizes her egg, a fetus forms, and 9 months later, baby! More ChaCha?
How to build a bulletproof startup
Phase One Establish a Company Step 1. Stress-Test Your Big Idea Step 2. Build Your Founding Team Step 3. Draft a Business Plan Step 4. Play the Name Game Step 5. Incorporate Thyself Phase Two Prototype the Product Step 1. Stake Out Intellectual Property Step 2. Create an Advisory Board Step 3. Build Your Prototype Phase Three Develop the Beta Product Step 1. Start Staffing Up Step 2. Assemble Your...
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
– Tom Brokaw
“you will marry a fair emerald and make many pretty diamonds with your jewels”
– magic 8 ball
Sadly, this reminds me of some of my friends.
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“If not in flesh, in heart; when not in sight, in soul; when not in life, in...”
– Anna Dron
“Worrying.. doesn’t do anything. do whatever you have to do without...”
– Anna Dron
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over...”
– David Foster Wallace - 2005 Keyon College Commencement Speech
What unique & meaningful value have you gotten out... →
Twitter is one of the most open, flexible and dynamic communication system ever invented. With such simplicity, it has of course plenty of limitations, but also an unique ability to create lots of powerful connections between its users.
In the spirit of Xmas, would like to share what meaningful connections we have gotten out of Twitter and how we got them, which we think is very difficult to...