September 2008
107 posts
starting Monday by driving a carpool of five 4yr. olds has knocked me clear into Tuesday.
there’s either an underachievers annonymous meetup at Rice Eccles or the Utes are playing a night game. hard to tell which…
I’d like to think my kids don’t flush the toilet because they’re environmentally concious, but I know better.
only watched half of the debate so far, but what I’ve see has confirmed that I don’t like either of my choices. where’s the reset button?
playing hide and seek with a child who has gas is like shooting fish in a barrel.
love the mess the OSU/USC game will make of the BCS rankings this week.
any surprise that the guy next to me on the flight last night rocking these socks was wearing a Ute shirt: http://tinyurl.com/4hwtrs
is there a correlation between the pastiness of a developer and their likelihood of success? leaning towards yes on this one…
screw you Oracle for taking every decent room in the city. found silky leopard print boxers for purchase hanging in my hotel closet. classy!
who eats two fantastic dinners in one night you might ask? a truly dedicated board member would be my reply.
Watchis it just me or is there a striking resemblance to Nicholas Fain’s performance and the one Sarah Palin delivered in her Katie Couric interview.
“The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it...”
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was just referred to as @bryce in a totally none twitter related email. maybe prince was onto something with that whole name=symbol thing…
I like that in Max’s world all important deals are consumated with a pinky swear.
another daily deal site from my friends at backcountry.com, this one for mountain bikers: http://www.chainlove.com/
really hoping Max is mistating the situation when he says “I beat up my teacher today”. going to call in the morning just in case.
Is There A USV Effect? →
When Mark and I started OATV we stopped in NYC for a few fundraising meetings and a get to know you lunch with two people I’d not met previously- Brad Burnham and Fred Wilson. They had just finished successfully raising the first USV fund and I was hoping to pick their brains a bit on the fundraising market. To be honest, I didn’t know much about these guys. But, over the course of our...
talking to a good friend running a large ecommerce company. they are seeing nearly 10% of transactions coming from iPhones.
who’s ready to kick some wrangler butts? Cougs vs. Cowboys, let’s do this!
27-0 coming out of halftime here at Cougar Stadium- where the beer is Barqs and the Coke is caffine free
fun to see who’s parents are still working off the effects of last nights festivities at early morning soccer games.
thought: twitter’s redesign doesn’t lend well to ads. i hope this means the’ve a more interesting/less obvious business model in development
there are corners of NYC in which I’m too old, too married and too uncool to hang. trying to catch a cab out of one of those now.
big high 5 to all the NYC folks who made this trip rock. leaving, as I always do, thinking I need to get here more often. to JFK Jeeves!
making an @shakeshack run with too many @’s to list. throwing down the shake stack challenge gauntlet with @ceonyc!
the irony of the pairing a diet coke with a shack stack is not lost on me. now time for nap 2.0.
cool to watch flu symptoms move cross country via twitter updates. not cool to have them reach me. ugh.
after getting the run around from apple employees for over an hour, GetSatisfaction members come through in under 20 min. FTW!
buzzer beater of an estimated quarterly tax payment.
going to sprinkle some cash around to several FDIC banks, just in case. thanks for the tip @wesabe