January 2012
“The Margaritaville laid back state of mind is inherently social, and this game...”
– Jimmy Buffett, so next gen (via brianfeldman)
well SHIT. internet, your dream is manifest. may as well take a nap now.
(via ashleylovespizza)
Oh man. In Key West last week we passed by Jimmy Buffet’s original recording studio where he recorded Cheeseburgers in Paradise and Margaritaville....
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Beauty Bar X
thegreataustinmigration:
Tara Hunt of Buyosphere is sponsoring this cool beauty bar for women attending SXSW. Check out BeautyBarX. I wanted to do something similar two years ago, so I am glad someone is doing it.
Dates: March 10-12, 2012
Time: 9am-3pm daily
What: YOU getting pampered Want to attend?
They are looking for sponsors so if your target market is women, you should throw some...
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“Nonetheless, to put Apple’s cash total in perspective, only 25 companies...”
– Apple Shines In First Quarter Without Steve Jobs - WSJ.com
“Apple reported more revenue in the final three months of last year than in all...”
– Apple Shines In First Quarter Without Steve Jobs - WSJ.com
These numbers are insane. I thought i was so smart buying at 70 and selling at 350. I should have kept it.
It’s crazy when even MG’s optimistic projections get blown out of the water. ;)
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sciencevsromance replied to your photo: What’s that about?
Rule 17 says that the nominees [for Best Picture] will be “those three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions.” Tree of Life has five; so I guess it’s TBD if they want Pitt to get a speech/statue?
AH. Weird. Interesting, though.
“Timehop, a startup that humbly began as 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, has just bagged a...”
– Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1M From Foursquare Founders And Others | TechCrunch
Super excited to be a part of this. Anyone who’s been to my house knows that I am a deeply, deeply nostalgic person. I have short shrift for the aggro, don’t look back...
“I have never seen such a generation of people shorting tech stocks,” Mr....”
– Disruptions: Tech Valuations Defy the Restraints of Reality - NYTimes.com
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hey amber rae: Cut the Bullshit: Radical honesty,... →
heyamberrae:
Imagine if we lived radically honest and naked lives.
We told the truth, all the time. We stopped dancing on eggshells. We eliminated secrets. We cut out the filters between our brains and our mouths.
Instead of a passive “no worries,” we tell our friend he pissed us off. We stop saying…
I tried this once. It lasted about a month and then my best friend and my sister...
“Two months ago, Mr. Moore wrote a computer program that scanned the Internet for...”
– Flaws in Videoconferencing Systems Make Boardrooms Vulnerable - NYTimes.com
“God. I am getting so fed up with Google,” wrote the searcher, Rick Webb. “I...”
– Why Google’s Biggest Problem with ‘Search Plus Your World’ Isn’t Antitrust | Techland | TIME.com
Oh man this is something my mom can be excited about. TIME.
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Barrett Garese: How to actually deal with a ton of... →
spytap:
Coming back from a two-week vacation, I have a ton of emails in my inbox. This isn’t an uncommon situation, but my preferred inbox status is “under ten.” As this seems unfathomable to many people, I often get asked how I actually make this happen.
So here’s how I get my inbox into single digit…
This is what I do, too, but what gets me is the “read this 10 page thing and...
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“Codecademy co-founder, Zach Sims told TNW: We think it’s incredibly important...”
– Codecademy and White House To Train Low-Income Youth (via thenextweb)
This is awesome.
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“And I’ve found that, what I now want the most in a woman is — I want a partner....”
– Tucker Max. ))<>((. (via luckypaperstars)
THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE BUILT YOUR ENTIRE CAREER ON GLORIFYING MISOGYNY, TUCKY.
(via nickdouglas)
I want somebody to share, share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts, know my intimate details
Someone who’ll stand by my side...
“Every really good, really experienced CEO that I know shares one important...”
– Ben (via brycedotvc)
That was a fantastic piece. I love love love it. Though I actually, a smidge, disagree with point two. The problem, as stated, is “An excellent engineer decides to leave the company because she gets a better offer. For various reasons, you were undercompensating her, but...
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire...”
– Steve Jobs (via shaneguiter)
Unless we’re yelling at them and calling them assholes or something.
“Nowadays, I don’t have a plan, an exit strategy, or a career arc in mind....”
– Craig Finn Talks New Solo Album, New Hold Steady Material | News | Pitchfork
That pretty much exactly describes my life, to a t, right there.
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lilyb replied to your quote: OFTEN Incorrect pronunciation: off – ten …
You know, Rick Webb, and I say this with love, but that’s going to be quite the collection of stuff we’ll be prying out of your cold dead hands.
Ha! That is true, I love that phrase. I will have to go back through all my blogs and make a list of all the things I’ll be holding in those hands in my coffin....
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“OFTEN
Incorrect pronunciation: off – ten
Correct pronunciation: off – en
...”
– 10 Words You Mispronounce That Make People Think You’re an Idiot | Primer
You will pry the t out of my cold, dead hands. And take it up with M-W.
“I looked at what has been done in campaigns in the past, with Senator McCain and...”
– Oh yes, Mitt Romney is extremely chill about releasing his taxes (which will show how little he pays on the millions he makes from Bain while technically “unemployed”). (via peterfeld)
If I were Romney, you couldn’t pay me to release my tax returns.
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“The argument, of course, is that these tech companies are positioned to scale in...”
– How the Myth of the Algorithm Fools the Market | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
My latest column for the Observer. It’s been something that’s been irking me for a while. A good comment on Twitter pointed out that perhaps I was referring to the myth of...
