September 2011
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First world CEO problems
CNN Money:
Here is what Carol Bartz thinks of the Yahoo (YHOO) board that fired her: “These people fucked me over,” she says, in her first interview since her dismissal from the CEO role late Tuesday.
CNET:
According to some number crunching by CNN, [Bartz’s severance] includes $3 million in cash, as well as a pro-rated yearly bonus worth somewhere between $1 million to $2...
August 2011
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“We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten...”
– To: Nintendo Re: Game Design
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June 2011
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Canadians Love Kicking Things
March 2011
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February 2011
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Behind The Scenes: Microsoft's Attempt To Woo... →
But before TBS came calling, Microsoft did its best to entice the comedian to bring his show to Xbox Live to help launch an original content channel on the console. The company and the performer have never addressed the reports of the conversation …
While Team Coco passed on the Microsoft offer, they still seemingly walked away with some respect for what the company was planning. Ross...
January 2011
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“A number of law schools hire their own graduates, some in hourly temp jobs that,...”
– A slightly terrifying New York Times feature on the current state of law schools in the US. Unaudited surveys and massaged employment statistics sure play a much larger role in school rankings than I’d realized.
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December 2010
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This morning I woke up angry at the moon
Emotions are silly things, aren’t they? I forgive you, moon. It’s those clouds I’m angry at for blocking the lunar eclipse last night.
My Year in Cities, 2010
I enjoy traveling, and one of the benefits of my job is that I get to do quite a bit of it. But it’s not until I actually compiled the list of cities I’ve been to this year that I realized the sheer extent of my travels in 2010. Hey, it’s a lazy gray Monday morning and I’m visiting family for the holidays—I need to entertain myself somehow, right? So here it is, a...
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Is Going to an Elite College Worth the Cost? →
Here’s a slightly infuriating article from The New York Times that asks how much of a real-world benefit prestigious colleges actually offer graduating students. The whole time I’m reading this, I’m thinking, “Are you going to mention the impact of a student’s major? I guarantee you an engineering major from the University of Oregon isn’t exactly trailing an...
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Thoughts On Tron: Legacy
I’ve never seen the original Tron. I had planned on watching it before going out to see the big-budget sequel Tron: Legacy, but through some combination of laziness and forgetfulness, it just never happened. Welcome to my life.
Clearly, this was no great tragedy. Tron: Legacy isn’t exactly heavy on plot, and the idea that you’d needed to have seen the original movie to...
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“They also acted differently. Every so often, you would see one waiting on a...”
– A Financial Times piece on the estimated 30,000 to 35,000 stray dogs living in Moscow.
November 2010
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“TO: All employees of Batman Inc.
FROM: Bruce Wayne
Family photos help...”
– Batman Inc. Corporate Memos
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Zombies!
Several days after the rest of the world, I finally caught the premiere episode of The Walking Dead last night. It’s a show that’s taken on the noble quest to bring zombie fiction to basic cable television, and so far signs point to success. The pilot episode is definitely a slow burn, starting off at a pace appropriate of the shambling undead subject matter. But things pick up...
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“I was thinking of something simple, like the head of Buster Posey on the body of...”
October 2010
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September 2010
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A Stream of Consciousness Guide to Japan - Day 4
Today’s update is one that can really only be done justice in picture form. After talking about it the past few years, we finally made the hour-long train ride outside Tokyo to go visit the temples of Kamakura. For reasons beyond me, this small coastal town southwest of the big city is filled with ancient temples. It’s startling how quickly you can go from the main train station and...
A Stream of Consciousness Guide to Japan - Day 3
Having spent the previous day trekking all over Tokyo, today started off a little more subdued with some shopping in the area near our hotel. The neighborhood here is called Akihabara, a place to buy any and all electronics you can imagine. And sometimes, you find things you could never have imagined to begin with. As evidence, I submit to you this $10 impulse buy from earlier today. It is in...
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A Stream of Consciousness Guide to Japan - Day 2
When you visit a country on an annual basis, you tend to develop favorite places and establishments. Visiting these spots helps to balance out the foreign with the familiar, giving you the security of having a known destination at the end of a long day’s walk through unfamiliar terrain. Then there are days like today. Days when everything you know and love is closed for renovations until...
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A Stream of Consciousness Guide to Japan - Day 1
I utterly failed at using Tumblr to keep track of my trip to Europe a few weeks ago, so I’ll try to avoid making the same mistake with my trip to Japan. We just flew in yesterday on a rather undersold flight, giving me the chance to get some decent sleep on the way over and not have to worry about sitting next to a man smelling like the distinct mixture of feet, peppermint, and curry that...
August 2010
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I will never understand SF protesters
On my way back from getting lunch today, I managed to walk right into a fairly elaborate anti-oil protest going on at New Montgomery and Mission. Signs skewering BP, a rather fired up lady with a microphone talking about lobbying practices, police milling about—exactly the sort of scene you’d expect. More to the point: a protest with a sentiment I can’t help but agree with, being...
The Ultimate Explanation Of Inception →
As the title suggests, this is might be the best explanation of Inception I’ve read thus far. Bringing up visual clues 99% of viewers would have missed and drawing attention—somehow—away from the ending, this write-up is more than worth your time if you’ve seen the movie.
Also: minotaurs.
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Inception
Because I enjoy the quiet solace of being the last man on Earth to ever do anything, I finally made the trip down to my local mega cinema this weekend to see Inception. I was expecting a great film and that’s precisely what I got. Well, that might be a bit of an understatement. Inception is actually kind of fantastic.
I will say, though, that Inception is a movie that takes a very strange...
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July 2010
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Stranger in a Familiar Land
I enjoy visiting New England precisely because it continues to feel so odd despite all the summers I spent here as a kid. In fact, having lived in San Francisco these past few years has predictably made it even more foreign of an experience. Every house has an American flag in the front yard. People call you “hon” entirely regardless of gender. You can drive through an entire state in less than...
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