December 2010
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The One Where I am Happy to be Happy
Beyond Gladwell, George Saunders is my favorite writer of essays. I recently finished “Bill Clinton, Public Citizen” which recounts Saunders’ time traveling through Africa with Clinton and members of his health foundation. As they poshly jetted from one rural diseased region to another, meeting people of high spirits and unfathomable optimism, Saunders began to ruminate on his...
Dec 29th
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Well this is just painful… 
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I want...
Saw a little girl on the street screaming over and over, “I want ice cream! I want ice cream, I want ice cream…” Then her dad took her to get ice cream. It made me think that I should start shouting out the things I want a little more.  First things that come to mind in the next 60 seconds: A one bedroom apartment in NY in the village.   Cute female international students as...
Dec 24th
Home Alone Sequels, IV - X →
VII hits too close to home… Home Alone VII Kevin McCallister, 26, fidgets in the teachers’ lounge of Old Trier, where he has been employed as a substitute history instructor for almost six months. “It’s not just frowned upon, it’s against the law,” says Mitch Murphy, his closest friend on the faculty. “I’m begging you, do not send her that...
Dec 24th
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Party like it's 1999...
A coworker posted this fantastic essay published in The Sunday Times back in 1999 about this new thing called ‘The Internet’. It’s pretty indicative of all the challenges Facebook (and any new social technology) faces today. My favorite part: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you...
Dec 22nd
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Oh what up! Finished a new video on Tuesday this week. This was an amusing project in the way it evolved, or rather, devolved over the course of its creation. Act 1 - The Concept The biggest challenge with this one was drilling in on a concept in the amount of time we had to make the video (about 8-9 days). The goal was to make a complimentary video to our ‘end of year’ memology...
Dec 18th
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It's 4am...
I can’t sleep. I feel like I’ve reached the ends of the Internet. I’m still at the office. People are mopping. I hear sounds in the distance that sound like screams. Could be an owl. I bet that’s what an owl sounds like at this hour.  Here are some notes from my iPhone from the past couple days: • Raki is the answer. I don’t remember the question.  • Hangar fresh...
Dec 14th
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Don't even reply...
Best one in a while: http://www.dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=98
Dec 13th
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Massimo Vitali - A beautiful portfolio... →
Dec 13th
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OH @ Facebook
“Do you know how to do this in Photoshop” (points to screen) “I don’t, but ask him” (points to guy one pod over) “He designed Photoshop”  Always nice to have guys like that on hand. 
Dec 10th
Ambling Awkwardness
Surfing your Tumblr dashboard in public is always a gamble when you follow thingsthatexciteme. 
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