May 2008
67 posts
Feel like I got a lot done today. Thinking a lot about viral marketing and looking at hosting solutions. Now ready to go home and play GTA
“The reason we started is that Stanford said, “You guys can come back and...”
– Larry Page on how to change the world - Apr. 30, 2008
April 2008
47 posts
Thinking about fighting in the NY Golden Gloves. Good idea?
GTA IV Multiplayer Impressions: What You Should... →
peterwknox:
(via lenier) This is very helpful. I forsee much GTA IV in my future.
Preparing to give my life over to GTA IV. Can’t wait.
It's easy to get things done
This weekend I got a ton of things done. Some of them were things I had been meaning to get done for almost two years (hello new bookshelf). All I needed to motivate me were two extremely important tasks that needed to be completed but were tedious enough that I would do anything to avoid them.
The good news is that I didn’t get either one of my critical tasks accomplished so next...
Is “Invite your friends” a realistic viral challenge for a stand alone website these days? Feels kind of dated to me.
“I knew that bringing in as many ball-hogs as possible, especially Stephon...”
– Isiah Thomas: ‘My Time With The Knicks Was Actually A Large-Scale Psychological Study Of New York Residents’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
It's all one big social network
I love what Yahoo is doing by opening up their platform. They have so many great properties for social application developers. Excited to see where this goes.
“This isn’t just widgets - they’ll also let user data out of the ecosystem.”
– The New Yahoo: Sticky, Viral, And Most Of All, Friendly
Spring in NYC is not the place to be if you need to get work done. Otherwise it’s amazing.
Did you know that if you do a classmate search on Facebook they only return 500 results and about 25% of them repeat?
Looking at xrays of my new cyborg face. http://tinyurl.com/6n7xft
“A 130% rise in the global cost of wheat in the past year, caused partly by...”
– Japan’s hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations | theage.com.au
“The cheapest mobile phone costs the equivalent of more than nine months of state...”
– MobileCrunch » Cubans Allowed to Buy Cell Phones Starting Today
Let the avalanche begin. Cell phones are now available in Cuba.
Walking in soho. Feels like the whole city is out enjoying the weather.
wow, five months since surgery. At the doctor checking in.
Back in NYC. Glad the weather is so nice.
Saying goodbye to Tokyo and sadly realizing it will probably be a while until I make it back to Japan.
I’ve never heard anyone snore as loudly as Ali is snoring right now.
Not really sure why I thought eating mexican food in Tokyo would be good idea.
Tokyo is one of the cleanest and most expensive cities in the world but I can’t find a trash can or ATM (that is in English) anywhere.
taking a break at the hotel and streaming the fight from last night via slingbox. Pretty awesome.
Wondering how long I am going to make it without sleep.
The “Fist Full of Yen” tour is in full effect. http://tinyurl.com/4l9aso for pictures and video.
Recovering from one of the funnest nights ever. I love you Tokyo. http://tinyurl.com/4rgtos
Even though my body thinks it’s 8am NY time and I haven’t slept in more than 24 hours I want to enjoy this rainy night in Tokyo.
about to board a plane. 14 hours to tokyo!
Any recommendations for places to check out while I am in Tokyo this week?
“When the dollar recovers Manhattan real estate will crumble”, my grizzled cab driver last night.
Smash Bros. Experts Share Their Secrets →
This kind of kills my video game nerd cred but I am going to be honest, I’ve had a hard time getting into the new Wii Smash Brothers game. To make it worse I’ve never even played any of the old Smash Brothers games.
I want to like Smash Brothers though and watching these videos certainly helps me understand that there is much more to this game then just smashing buttons.
“How does the U.S. stack up right now as a place to invest? Our workers are...”
– Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Scary thought: Maybe the Rust Belt is the whole U.S. now?
Thinking about the long plane ride to Japan I’ll be on a week from today.
Thinking about Rainbow Six Vegas 2’s commentary on the Vegas housing market by having an abandoned condo project level called murdertown.
Growing up April Fools
Pranks were a year round event in my house. My parents were big fans of pulling pranks on my brother and I. This started a war where everyone was constantly on guard in our house of being pranked. Some of my favorites:
My parents waking us up in the middle of the night to tell us we missed the bus and to get dressed and get in the car. We would stumble to the car and fall back asleep while...