December 2006 Entries
Spotted live by me, but I didn't want to cause a scene with my cameraphone, so I just googled the model # when I got home.
Those are disc brakes -- on a stroller.
Achieve IT!, one of those motivational blogs, had a post yesterday that was titled "I Have Met The Enemy And His Name Is Effort Divided".
“You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds,” a 15th century proverbial saying tells us.
For the goal focused individual, what this means is we cannot strive for two goals with equal passion. We must make a choice between A and B. Working towards both with the same time, energy and gusto means we won’t do either particularly well.
Dividing efforts always means at any one time one of the objectives is...
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Found today at Barnes & Noble.
1.3 megapixels on my phone is more than the first Polaroid digital camera I ordered in 1997 that was a couple thousand dollars.
As part of some ongoing with with the Tamron lens company, Emily shot a "podcast" -- which seems to be misnamed because it is a quicktime video and I don't see an RSS feed, but no need to quibble about semantics. The page is up here and the direct link is here: Natural Light Portraiture: Emily Wilson with the 28-300mm [Quicktime] The model in the setups is our friend and fellow upper-west-sider Anna. (tech note: this is the kind of thing you can use the download embedded FireFox extension to save as with)
I picked up the Samsung Blackjack. I needed a keyboard and push email now that email is so much critical now. My choices were down to the Blackjack, the Dash from t-mobile and the Q from Verizon. To simplify my research by a factor of 50: T Mobile Dash: nice device, and plans are the cheapest, but they don't have 3G high speed data access yet. bonus pro is they offer wifi (starbucks) on their network included in the data plan. Verizon Q: good device, high speed access, some minor gripes with the Q from...
I love the entrepreneur life. Getting pig-level-commitment for this business has been amazing for progress. I'm learning how to manage my time and focus on the right things, but I have a ways to go before I feel like I'm firing on all cylinders. Being a New York based startup is an interesting challenge. Out in Silicon Valley, they've got a whole ecosystem for dealing with tech entrepreneurial startups. NYC has elements of this, but the community is definitely smaller, but bigger than I had feared. In my first two weeks of this, I've already attended four...
I'm only five workdays into my virtual work-life and I'm close to giving up on Starbucks as the default goto spot. This is especially easy for me as I don't drink coffee and there just aren't that many ways to order tea. My preferred hangout? The hotel lobby lounge. I've got one specifically that I'm happy with (ask me and I'll tell you which one, hint: they have a cat) in midtown. The wifi is free, the chairs are comfortable, the bathrooms are clean, the atmosphere is quiet. I ordered a diet coke & a tea...
Arrested Development is being re-run on basic cable, the G4 network I think. I caught most of the episodes in the original run of the show, but there is so much detailed, subtle comedy in there, I highly recommend watching them again.
In 1966, John Frankenheimer directed Grand Prix, the classic F1 racing movie. The film is a seriously artsy, dedicated effort to capture the world of racing, from the driver's lives to long, realistic driving sequences. Apparently almost all the drivers drove their own racecars (minus one scaredy-cat, meow) at full speed since the director figured fans would know...