New Year’s Resolution: Work and Relaxation

I saw this comic on Techcrunch today and it really hit home…

Animals at a strip club - crazy video

Saw another video that was sent to me via VSL and it is indeed worth a view.  It’s an Orangina commerical which has a bear and deer involved in a seductive dance that spirals into an all out stripper montage with animals throughout the jungle.  I don’t really know what to say

Dopplr is really cool

I started using the site Dopplr a few months ago when it was in Beta and thought it was just okay. I recently went back to check it out and i’m blown away.  It’s a great site.  What is Dopplr?  Dopplr is a website that…
lets you share your travel plans privately with a group of [...]

Top 5 Albums of 2007

Here’s a list of my favorites for 2007. I originally wanted to list 10, but then i realized that i hadn’t really listened to 10 albums. I’ve listened to lots of tracks, but not really 10 full albums. So here are the top albums of 2007 for me.
Honorable mentions

Easy Tiger by [...]

Hollywood story

I’m reposting this from Marc Andressen’s blog. It is a story from Paul Zollo’s book Hollywood Remembered, an oral history of the movie industry. A great story about drive and commitment.

A 2001 interview with A. C. Lyles, a producer at Paramount who was born in 1918 in Jacksonville, Florida and worked at Paramount [...]

I Am Legend is a better book than movie

I saw the new Will Smith movie I Am Legend last night.  While it’s an average movie, it is far inferior to the book.  The book is only about 150 pages.  You should read it instead of seeing this movie.
What do i not like about the movie?  Specifically, i HATED all the last-minute saves.  The [...]

You make me touch your hands for stupid reasons

As someone who reads and receives lots of comments from young folks (i’m the person where feedback@qloud goes to), i’ve seen the worst of the worst when it comes to grammar. I was looking at some bad messages today when i was shown this letter (below).
This is a breakup letter from a 13 [...]

Best Movie of the Year: Juno

I went to go see the movie Juno this weekend.  It was an incredible experience.  I can’t remember the last time i laughed out loud so much at a movie.  The humor were not just witty one-liners (which there were many) but physical and situational comedy too.  Just looking at Michael Cera in his running [...]

The Golden Compass is Great - Atonement is Not

Saw 2 movies this weekend: Atonement and The Golden Compass

Atonement has lots of hype. I read comments like, “This is one of the year’s best films, a certain best picture nominee.” (from Ebert) on Friday and was really excited to go see it. I left the theater disappointed. The first half is [...]

TripIt is Really Useful & Virgin America is the best

I’ve been traveling a lot lately and i’m always looking for the best fare (or Virgin America, my new favorite airline).  Because of this, my flights are all over the place.  My trip to Minnesota for Christmas has me leaving from BWI on Southwest, changing to American in Chicago and then coming home on the [...]