February 2010
1 post
Why you hate Google Buzz
You don’t hate buzz because you’re wary about privacy issues. You don’t hate buzz because it does something a product you already use does. You hate buzz because Google stopped trying to make you happy.
Google’s best three products are search, maps and mail. In every case they took an existing service and made it not suck. The emphasis was on making a better experience for...
August 2009
1 post
As a freshmen in college I was good at a lot of things, interacting with women was not one of them. One story my friends are fond of retelling took place in the community laundry room. Since the first week of school I had found one particular hall mate quite attractive. I had no idea how to approach her and devised an awesome plan. I would give her a gift, and not just any gift, an entire box of...
April 2009
1 post
The internets can tell your gender... →
March 2009
4 posts
“The researchers concluded that mental abilities, which peak at 22 years old,...”
– http://www.metro.us/us/article/2009/03/16/00/1557-82/index.xml
“1) One of your best assets is your laziness
This chapter will talk about being...”
– http://www.wait-till-i.com/2009/03/16/my-new-book-idea-dont-do-it-again/
“You want to eat meatloaf in a recession, and sushi in a boom.”
– http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-38-317/25-Things-I-Learned-at-MIT.html
“The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a...”
– http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html
January 2009
2 posts
Would you name your son Barack?
At this point you’d have to at least consider right?
Late to the party
Over a year ago Facebook launched a technology called Beacon. This allowed partner companies to send information to Facebook about their users if they had a Facebook cookie. Subsequently something would appear in the Facebook user’s news stream like Benjamin Berry has bought tickets to Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Then all my friends get a little post in their news feeds and an idea of my poor...
December 2008
2 posts
Pick Stocks!
Aaron, Adam and I are doing a little competitive trading on updown.com. Each 9th we will compare our % up/down from last month. Doing the best earns you $10 from each of the losers. At the end of 3 months we’ll do a cumulative comparison for $25 a piece. I will naturally win because I am more pretentious than those guys. The most pretentious guy usually wins, unless they lose, but then they...
September 2008
1 post
“When someone asks you ‘Why…?’, tell them ‘Because I...”
January 2008
2 posts
Just in: Great Musicians hate listening to music
This weekend I learned from a friend of mine who plays drums in a band that ’simple’ music was not enjoyable to listen to.
I was driving him around while listening to my latest mix cd and he criticized the Nickelback song that came on. His claim boiled down to: he could learn the drums for the song in under two weeks and he couldn’t enjoy something like that. A group with as...
First Post
Hey tumblrs. This is my first shot at blogging. My friends say it’s all the rage, like facebook… a year ago. I can’t wait to find out how the internet will massage my ego next year. Then we can all look back and point out all the ways this internet socializing tool was incomplete, like we did with myspace… a year ago. Until then, welcome to my thoughts.