If you aren’t familiar with Theo Geisel, maybe you know him as Dr. Seuss. I am reading plenty of Seuss books these days and flat out love his rhyme scheme. If I could walk around all day talking like either Yoda or Dr. Seuss, I think I would choose Dr. Seuss. Today was his birthday […]
The Gray Lady has an article titled Low-Tech Fixes to High-Tech Problems and one problem that they discuss happens to a lot of people: dropping your cellphone in the toilet (or in my case a cup of beer while at a NJ Nets game). My phone in that instance was ruined but maybe it didn’t […]
Oh lovely – even more reasons to be afraid in this recession. The Gray Lady is reporting that China is spending money like a drunken sailor and buying up all sorts of commodities. The scary opening quote reads as follows: China is taking advantage of the economic downturn to go on a major shopping spree, […]
Elephants are social animals and so are dogs. So, it isn’t the most unlikely scenario that an Elephant and a Dog can become best friends though when it does, about a thousand people go “awww” at the same time. The clip below is way too cute. With so much bad stuff in the news (or […]
Jonathan Jarvis has put together a super slick short and simple explanation of the current credit crisis. His goal? To give form to a complex situation like the credit crisis in order to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. As my friend Erik states, “Towards the end it gets […]
I never read John Updike until after he passed away and started to because numerous media outlets wrote lengthy tomes about his genius. “If I am a writer and a serious student of literature, I must read him” I thought. One thing consistently stood out in all the obits / reviews: he wrote flowing, lovely, […]
One SNL bit that I find consistently funny is the “Really?!?” segment that Seth Meyers does from time to time on the Weekend Update portion of the show. When Amy Poehler was still in the scene, they partnered for a very funny one concerning Rod Blagojevich and while Seth is no Dennis Miller, he thankfully […]
Fake Steve Jobs, aka Daniel Lyons, has an article in Newsweek this week titled Time to Hang Up the Pajamas in which he states that growing rich by blogging is a high-tech fairy tale. I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them. […]
In honor of last week’s frakkin awesome Battlestar Galactica episode titled “Blood on the Scales” (which really should be considered part two of an episode they should call “Mutany!” as it picked up exactly where “The Oath” ended), here is a link to a Gizmodo post titled Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably […]
Many people have been baffled by the NYT’s idea that the weekend starts Friday morning. Finally, someone has poked fun at their commercial which advertises this edition and the good people at the 92YTribeca did a bang up job in doing so. See below: Via Neu via The Gothamist