Software Development

• Too often I’ve seen code that made me lose my lunch.
• Sometimes source code is like the sausage factory where you don’t want to look what goes into an application.
• One developer’s corner case is another user’s daily workflow.
• Application logs are like money, you can always use more… Unfortunately they are like pennies, the more you have the more difficult it is.
• Fix the problem, not the symptom. Some developers prefer to fix the symptom because they don’t know how to find the root cause itself.

Team Leadership

• It is important to lead the way and then immediately get out of the way.
• If it doesn’t make sense to me it is because you are not explaining it correctly.
• Everyone has a right to their opinions but not everyone’s opinion is right.
• Great ideas don’t belong to any one person. Great ideas are not unique to anyone. Great ideas stand on their own.
• If you are safe in your comfort zone you’ll never be in the zone.
• Even when I think outside the box, I am still in the zone.
• There are no easy answers without hard choices.
• It’s one thing to make sense and a completely different thing to be clear.
• There are some things in life that are not meant for you to understand but to accept.

Product Placement

• Things Apple should buy: Evernote, app TLD, Square, and my blog.
• The Notes app on the iPhone badly needs an to support the undo and redo feature.
• The new Google+ is the new New Coke.
• If Google would have invented Polaroid, the film would be free but full of ads and a copy would be uploaded to the cloud.
• Some of Google’s UI often looks and feels like the uncanny valley of design, it has a plastic aspect to it.
• My other Tumblr is a Moleskine.
• So much of the content I see in Pinterest seems to come from Tumblr…
• Instagram has no ads, only available on mobile, Android support just added, not profitable, no web presence… Obviously worth $1 billion.
• Instead of paying a billion in cash and stock why didn’t Facebook just pay a billion in Facebook Credits and likes.
• Silicon Valley back of the envelop valuation math: Tumblr + Camera+ > Instagram therefore Tumblr + Camera+ = $10,000,000,000++.
• I don’t understand @McDonalds economics… A whole McChicken sandwich costs $1 but ask for an extra BBQ sauce and you get charged $0.50.

Silicon Angels

• Is it possible for the whole of Silicon Valley to jump the shark? If and when it does there will be a large splash.
• Silicon Valley valuations are relative to previous largest valuation.
• The Internet is paved with high valuations.
• Frothyness is the new truthyness.
• Frothy does a body good.

Randumb

• I want to see the world in HD.
• What do we want? Our way. When do we want it. All the time.
• If someone says something that is factually untrue, it doesn’t mean they lied… It means you lied to yourself by believing it. #truth
• One persons guest house is a other persons mansion.
• Some people build walls, others bridges, I build BS radar detection systems.
• Retweet, reblog, repin, remix, rinse, and repeat!
• I think in numbers.
• All language is a metaphor.
• Trolls shall inherit the earth.

Software Development

• Say no to consultant code. No to complacent code. No to sloppy and crappy code. No to cut and past code.
• Developing a machine learning algorithm so we don’t have to learn anymore.
• Hacking, art or science!?
• Great hacking weather… Well most weather is great hacking weather as long as your computer don’t overheat.
• What would an autonomous algorithm do?
• Sex, drugs, and hacking.
• You don’t go on Hacker News to show off your project, act arrogant that it’s a closed network, and not expect someone to hack a clone.
• Nothing worse than setting a test to run overnight only to have a Windows update restart your computer in the middle of the test/night.
• Refactor with conviction.
• Building on assumptions is like building on quicksand.
• When in doubt, step through it in a debugger.

Team Leadership

• Every problem is an opportunity in the rough.
• Mo’ money, mo’ problems. Mo’ problems, mo’ opportunity.
• Ask the right questions is better than making the wrong assumptions.
• Everything is mental, even when it’s physical.
• Being successful means you are only a mistake away from not.
• Don’t use the fact you don’t know a fact as a reason for not knowing it.
• Just because a team member knows one thing does not excuse the rest of the team from learning for themselves and knowing it too.
• A team is composed of a group of individuals, but a group of individuals is not a team.

Product Placement

• Google used to be a search engine and return search results now it wants to be an answer engine and return you the answer.
• What do you call a Pinterest user? Pinner? Pinhead?
• Facebook IPO: it’s complicated.
• How hard is it to add filters to Flickr’s iPhone app?
• These @calottery lotto ticket should have a QR code so that I can quickly scan to see if I’m a winner.
• The Google of today is the sort of operation that Sergey and Larry originally set out to disrupt.
• Somewhere some evil genius is building a super computer out of a cluster of The New iPad.
• AT&T is in the phone business, so of course when you call customer support they will always have you call someone else who transfers you that gives you a different number that redials…

Quote

• P.S. GitHub sorry, I was bored. — Egor Homakov, the guy that hacked GitHub
• I have never seen someone try so hard for attention while looking so atrocious at the same time. -Anna Wintour on Nicki Minaj
• I would give my life for her but she also wants me to do the dishes. – Hellboy

Questions

• Are you killing time or is time killing you?
• Do The Simpsons pay royalties for basing their episodes on popular movies?
• Why do single people love cats?
• Why is it that sometimes when you don’t do a thing people notice, but when you do they don’t?
• Which would you prefer, an iPad with a keyboard or a net book?
• If you could only attain one thing which would you choose, money, happiness, or longevity?

Randumb

• Fear is free but it will cost you opportunities.
• Ideas are cheap, but originality will cost you.
• Hot sauce makes everything better.
• The odds of you being a loser are better than you winning the lottery.
• There are people I follow on Twitter that I would never follow in real life, who I would rather push of a cliff in real life.
• Complainers are worse than haters.
• College is not for the uber successful.
• future obituary: died of chili cheese fries.
• “Really? Really?” Is the new “Oh My God”
• The term “gateway drug” doesn’t make sense, if you are already doing a drug, you are already past the gateway for drugs.
• Power drinks are the new gateway drugs.
• Power drinks are making me fat and jittery.
• All advice is relative, especially advice from a relative.
• Life is a journey not a destination, death in the other hand seems like the destination.

Software Development

• Kids lunch snacks sound like Java interfaces, Uncrustables and Lunchables.
• 99% of software is hardcoded defaults.
• Software will shape the future.
• I don’t count lines of code.
• Code less, debug even less.
• Every few years JavaScript goes through a renewed renaissance.
• Sometimes life does not compute. #dividebyzeroerror

Team Leadership

• Success is a dish best served with champagne.
• Don’t let circumstance beyond your control control you.
• Just because it’s widely accepted that Steve Jobs was difficult to work with and a genius doesnt mean you have to be difficult to work with.
• Negativity is like cholesterol, to much of it can kill you.
• Most important lesson in my life: Learn to appreciate what you have and do not agonize about what you don’t.
• Corporate titles mean nothing, that is why I put Chief Creative Business Developer Principal Program Scientist on my business card.
• The biggest lesson one can learn is to listen.
• The universe doesn’t hate you, it doesn’t even know you exist.
• Try harder. Do better. Go further. Think Bigger.
• Forget stopping to smell the flowers, I stop to reach for the stars.

Product Placement

• I’m going to start a search engine for ego searches and call it egoogle.
• Google is a giant keyword router in the cloud.
• Android uses food related codenames for its different versions, such as ice cream sandwhich. I hear next release will be named leftovers.
• Why is Gingerbread still the most popular/common version of Android In new phones? It’s like two releases behind latest version.
• I think it is safe to say that G+ is a successful flop. I would compare it more to MySpace than Facebook.
• Missing Feature: I wouldn’t be surprised if the Kindle reader would allow you to tweet a quote right from an eBook.
• If Apple would design single family homes it would cost over $1 million and only be 800 sq/ft but I would want one really bad.
• iPhone or iMole: whatever data or contact or image you have on your iPhone some hacker, service, API, law enforcement, or app will access.
• In today’s day and age, no person should be executed for tweeting and no person should have to go to jail for downloading a song.
• Blue Ivy Carter sounds more like a brand name of vodka or energy drink put out by Jay-Z than the name of his kid.

Cash Angels

• Who needs $3 million to run a WordPress-powered tech blog? At these valuations my blog is definitely worth $10 million.
• Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are modern day alchemists turning virtual goods into real cold hard cash, IPOs into billions.
• A frothy market is a tasty market.
• The future is in crowd financing.
• It’s raining stock options in Silicon Valley. #makeitrain
• All the people of Palo Alto rejoice at news of Facebook IPO, in a few months their rents will go up 30%.
• To much Facebook IPO analysis on my feed. If you aren’t a preferred investor you ain’t making money.
• 1. _________. 2. $#%#%$*(&. 3. ?????? 4. Profit.

Question

• Can software refactor the world?
• How can people wave their constitutional rights be agreeing to a terms of service they didn’t read or understand?
• Breyer’s or Dreyer’s?
• Who will be the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of 3D printing?
• Forget “where’s the beef,” where’s the 100 Mbps broadband?
• Who is Waldo?
• If corporations are people does it mean a man can marry a corporation?

Equations

• Principles > Politics
• Generous > Gorgeous
• Cheddar > Chatter
• Worrier < Warrior
• Sex On Fire > Heart On Fire

Software Development

• Even I’m surprised to know how many people use code that I wrote and tested on a train ride to my work.
• What will be the preferred web development platform in 2012?
• The default should always be opt-in.
• legislation != innovation
• Data to the people.
• Technology is democratizing idiocy.

Team Leadership

• If knowledge is power, than data is the source of power.
• If you think your business model is finished, you are finished.
• Doers gonna do.
• Most managers have 20% time, the time spent not looking ignorant about some aspect of technology.
• Better than picking your battle, pick the time of the battle, better still pick the your combatant, even better still put it on pay-per-view
• In space no one can hear you scream, in the interwebs no one will let you forget it.
• I had a dream that I had woken up at 10am and that I was late for work, I panicked and woke up from the dream and it was only 5am.
• I absolutely hate absolutism of any kind!
• If you want to have your cake and eat it too it is best to bake it yourself.
• So-so is the enemy of awesome.

Product Placement

• I wish there was a entrepreneur version of television show Deal or No Deal.
• Green Burrito is the worst name for a fast food fastaurant.
• It’s clear that @Google has Facebook envy, especially with their new privacy policy.
• I’ll never use a social networking site if it requires a government ID for me to log in.
• How can Google claim that G+ supports pseudonyms if they may review and require government ID for you to prove that is your real pseudonym.
• People forget that Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto is an abbreviated form of “Don’t get caught being evil.”
• Would William Shakespeare publish his works on the Apple iBooks platform?

Question

• What is worse than bullshit or bullballs?
• Why do bills arrive faster than cash?
• How do you become the thought leader on thought leadership?
• In what food group are gummy bears in?
• Is it really made in the USA if it’s made of Italian leather from Spanish cows?

Randumb

• Old hippies never die, they just cut their hair, take a shower, and become The Man.
• If it was up to the movie/music industry, all Americans would have to pay a Copyright tax off 5% across the board.
• Only one of the infinite parallel universes will end on 2012. Which universe are you in?
• Many people on Hoarders are not true die hard hoarders, they are lazy and messy.
• Complaining about the use of the #FirstWorldProblems hashtag is a #FirstWorldProblem.
• I like cats but dislike cat people.
• Just like haters gonna hate, cheaters gonna cheat.
• The key of love is to know when to let go.
• Fame made me do it.
• Haters love me.
• The future has no past.
• Each day you die a little.
• I like watching the future in reverse.
• At the Hispanic section in a Chinese store.
• If time flies, it must have lost its luggage.

Code and Design

• Remove Multiple Null Values From a List in Java
• Launch Default Web Browser and Email Client in Java
• How to Print the Alphabet in Java
• Java String Conversion Puzzlers
• Find the Current Working Directory in Java
• Can You Spot the Infinite Loop
• Run-on Code Statement
• Common Causes for Out of Memory Exceptions
• Fix Common Java Errors
• Access Drives From Remote Windows Computers
• Create SQL Server Database and Database Tables From a File
• Copy Records From One Database to Another
• Copy Data Between Two Databases Tables

Reviews and Rants

• Avoid Overloading Meaning to Existing Database Columns
• Worst Software Bug
• Never Underestimate Your Users
• jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap
• Chipotle Online Order System
• Save on Merchant Fees
• Email Share
• Missing Feature: The Mobile Device Self Destruct Button
• Reclaim Disk Space with Spacie
• The Google Chrome Notebook
• Android Lacks Polish
• Microsoft Bizspark
• Does Lenovo Use Thinkvantage Toolbox to Spam Users?
• HP Printer Driver Wants to Phone Home
• Apple Ruined My Neighbors Christmas
• Google Starts Towards the Path of Evil
• Has Google Jumped the Shark?

Retweet 2011

• Retweet December 2011
• Retweet November 2011
• Retweet October 2011
• Retweet September 2011
• Retweet August 2011
• Retweet July 2011
• Retweet June 2011
• Retweet April 2011
• Retweet March 2011
• Retweet February 2011

Year in Review

• Year In Review 2009
• Year In Review 2008
• Year In Review 2007
• Year In Review 2006
• Year In Review 2005

Software Development

• Being into computers today is not the same as it was in my day when you had to solder chips into boards, now it means you are on Facebook.
• I don’t know why you would fake such a thing but there are a lot of fake self described geeks.
• This holiday season remember to backup if don’t already have a backup system in place.

Thought Leadership

• Life has a funny way to keep you humble.
• Focus on simplicity, complexity is overrated.
• Whether I see the glass half full or half empty largely depends on what is in the glass to begin with.
• To much of a good thing is a bad thing. Not enough of a good thing is also a bad thing.
• No brain, no gain.
• There is no such thing as cheap thrills, only cheap tricks.

Product Placement

• I just realized that I have five phone numbers connected to my iPhone.
• Not feeling the new Twitter app. It feels like it requires too many clicks to do anything.
• Every parking lot should be covered with an array of solar panels. Some parking lots take more area than the base of the building.
• I hate when sites and apps require Facebook Connect to sign up. #pinterest
• I bet that Taco Bell taco shells are made in China.
• Like a true politician, Go Daddy flip flopped on the issue and now claims it does not support SOPA. #WhoDroppedTheSOPA
• Google Grinch: No Ice Cream Sandwich for Galaxy S, first Galaxy Tab, or original Nexus.
• The one feature that had been overlooked in Android is the ability to take a screenshot of your Android device.

Quote

• I’m putting you on the do not kill list. – Bender Bending RodrÌguez
• The truth is often stupid. – Bender Bending RodrÌguez
• Follow the fucking money. When a VC tells you what’s good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers. – jwz
• Let’s go and invent tomorrow. – Steve Jobs

Question

• Who moved my cheese and then cut said cheese?
• Who is doing some last minute shopping?
• How many domains do you own?
• Church’s or Popeyes?
• Ancient Aliens or Modern Morons?
• If you could go back in time and would be stuck in prehistoric time, what skill would you need most to survive?
• If Mr Grinch is so mean what do you think Mrs Grinch is like?
• If the world is flat why aren’t international phone rates flat themselves?
• A touch device is a complicated device with many components, what are the chances that the Galaxy Tab would look identical to the iPad?

Randumb

• Looking forward to the future!
• Old Internet memes don’t die, they go remixed, go viral, and trend.
• It’s rumored that the same maker that built a weight scale with a built it twitter client that tweets your weight is working on a toilet.
• Money can’t buy you love but it can sure buy some lap dances.
• When it comes to teenage love, forever doesn’t last long.
• The surprise is the prize.
• Empty space is the enemy of clutter.
• You are the chaos/cause of you.
• You are the cause of you because you.
• It is what it will be and it will be what has been.
• Happy whatever the fuck you celebrate tonight.
• The Internet was invented for the sharing of funny cat videos and pictures.
• Make a right at the 3rd dimension and you are here.
• The best part of nothing is everything.
• Negative ideas manifest into real feelings
• Gift wrapping ain’t going so merry.
• If there is a way to hurt yourself with a tape dispenser I’ve done it… Why is my lip bleeding!?
• I think that The Terminator is the beginning of a long war against the machines that culminates with The Matrix.

Overheard

• OH: Annoying people are really annoying.
• OH: I would love to enjoy my own depression if I only I didn’t have to deal with other people’s depression.
• OH: I wish my life was an 80′s movie.
• OH: To be honest, I’m not being honest.

My personal pet peeve with Android devices is the craziness with moving apps from the internal device’s memory to the external SD card. Even relatively recent Android devices such as the Google Nexus and Dell Streak 7 have less than 1GB internal memory so if you download a lot of apps you’ll soon need to move apps around to the SD card. But some apps you can’t move to the SD card so that presents a different issue.

Who cares if the phone’s memory can be extended by using higher capacity SD cards if a one year old device can’t even be upgraded to the latest Android version. So the whole thing with extensible SD cards and moving installed apps from the internal memory to the SD card I find completely and frustratingly useless. The whole concept of an Operating Systems is that best manages the resources of the device, the Android OS should best manage installed applications in either the internal memory or SD based on some intelligence. Why am I doing Android’s job?

Another concern I have with Android devices is that they usually come with a lot of pre-installed apps. For example, my Dell Streak 7 came with Kongregate Arcade app which I can’t remove and reclaim the wasted internal memory. Similarly, carriers and vendors add and customize Android so that no two devices have the same user experience.

My last concern with Android’s lack of polish is its dark goth color scheme. Most application’s menu and option screens are as if they were designed by a goth listening to The Cure. The Android UI design is not “Just Like Heaven.”

Software Development

• To checkin or not to checkin a large changelist five minutes before you go home, that is the question?
• A test like a good movie, has three parts: the setup, the car chase, and the test of the results.
• Testing is like a tax, you have to pay 5-10% to have a good running infrastructure or system.
• Testing takes time, make sure you make the time, because it will save you time in the long run.
• All programmers have a black belt in hubris.
• One bytecode to rule them all.

Thought Leadership

• Your miles may vary, but it often depends on your attitude.
• Passion + Perseverance = Possibilities
• Sometimes you can’t afford to lose a client, but there are other times you can’t afford keep your client.
• Just like there should be no hard coded strings there should be no unwritten rules, or assumptions, or specifications.
• The dumbest people I’ve ever encountered are those that think that the rest of the 99.99% of people are a bunch of idiots.
• If you are unique no one can compete with you.
• Team meetings should not feel like an AA meeting, “Hi, I’m bob and I work here.”

Product Placement

• I’ve used the iPhone apps for Google Voice and G+ and I have to say, Google does not know how to make a good iOS app.
• I’m not liking the new Google Reader look. I would not be surprised if the next version of Google design has ribbons.
• Leave no smart phone behind. Google won’t upgrade the Nexus One to Android 4.0.
• Google is set to update its motto to “Do no evil if you ain’t getting paid for such evil.”
• Android is to Google what Internet Explorer was to Microsoft in the Browser Wars. MS gave IE for free just to take out Netscape.
• Siri is to Apple what Kinect is to XBox what Facebook Connect is to Facebook what Circles are to Google Plus…
• Every time I upgrade a MS product an angel loses his wings.
• Is Amazon also adopting social networking features? I just noticed that Amazon has a like button on its product pages.
• Facebook should update its mission “to trick people to over share and make the world more open, connected, and trackable.”
• Google should update its mission “to organize the world’s information about our users and make it accessible and useful to our advertisers.”
• @att has two options in terms of text messages. Pay as you use for $0.20 or unlimited for $20. What about a third option, disable texting altogether?
• Why does it cost half of the price of a stamp to send or receive a text? It’s endemic of an industry that has no competition or innovation.
• The Kindle Fire tablet is a modern day physical shopping cart for Amazon’s virtual online store.
• History is being made every day, yet @historychannel airs reruns of Ancient Alien.

Quotes

• OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. – Steve Jobs’ Last Words
• I’m so embarrassed. I wish everybody else was dead. – Bender Bending Rodriguez
• Goodbye monobrains – Bender Bending Rodriguez
• There is no recession for great companies… – Jason Calacanis
• Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free. – Linus Torvalds
• Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is a process; working together is success. – Henry Ford
• When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. – Walter Lippmann

Randumb

• On Monday mornings we are all zombies.
• Why am I listening to old school British punk rock? #GodSpankTheQueen
• The truth is that truth is absolutely relative.
• And then God said, “Let there be bacon,” and there was bacon. God saw that the bacon was delicious.
• You’re so vain, you probably think this tweet is about you.
• Fist pump for peace.
• Anybody that gets lost in a corn maze is an absolute moron.
• I hate Lifetime movies!
• Business is legitimate thievery.
• Some of the most common elements on earth idiotum and dumbtonium.
• meta-disrupt: Disrupt those disrupting disruption.
• I am, therefore I meme.

Thought Equations

• Meaning > money
• problem = opportunity
• means != ends
• Success > Perfection
• Experience != Information
• Thinking > Knowing
• Do > try
• Platform > product
• Creation > criticism
• Passion + Perseverance = Possibilities

Million Dollar Ideas

• Million Dollar Idea: Online Speed Dating Site
• Million dollar idea: a news channel with nothing but news tickers…
• Million Dollar Idea: self cleaning floors.

Software Development

• Code. Money. Respect.
• Software bugs don’t take anything personally.
• Code more, sleep less.
• DONT THREAD ON ME

Thought Leadership

• Just having a goal is often times more important than the goal itself.
• Word programming, i.e. writing TPS reports.
• Code Complete = Tests + Implementation.

Product Placement

• Google is the casino, or better yet the Goldman Sachs, of online identity, ads, and search. You don’t bet against the house.
• What is cloud-accelerated web browser? Learning about Amazon Silk, the web browser in Amazon’s Kindle Fire.
• The project code name for the iPhone’s auto correct is auto cucumber.
• Spike TV should rename itself to Star Wars TV and the History Channel to Ancient Aliens Channel.

Money Angels

• Dr Evil is starting a venture fund.
• If Dr. Evil would have taken his Evil Corp. Public he would have made $1 billion on an IPO. And maybe Google would have bought his company.

Question

• How many uses can you think of for a paper clip?
• Where in the food pyramid is candy corn?
• Is Meg Whitman the new Carol Bartz?
• Are you changing the world or is the world changing you?
• What is the person equivalent to having your car lifted up in the air and balancing its tires?

Randumb

• The Internet made me do it.
• It’s easy to earn money while you sleep, if you sleep on the job.
• You are more likely to die due to medical error than a car accident. So if you are in a car accident, don’t go to the hospital, just walk it off.
• If I could get a nickel every time someone gives me their two cents I would arbitrage people’s opinions.
• Living the Internet lifestyle.
• If you don’t want your naked picture hacked from your phone don’t take naked picture of yourself on your phone.
• There are proposed bills that will make activities such as posting a lip sync video on YouTube a federal crime punishable with jail time.
• Forget the war on drugs, in the future there will be a war on content.
• History is not made, it is written, edited, scripted, and appropriated by Hollywood as a blockbuster movie about mutant super heroes.
• I predict the past.
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, behold yourself.
• This is not Sparta!
• Love me, hate me, but you thinking of me.
• Love it or hate it, take it or leave it.
• I love love and hate hate.

Overheard

• OH: When you frown you look like a Klingon.
• OH: Is everyone in the call on mute?
• OH: My dress code is to try not to show my butt cheeks.

In Da Future

• In the future, everyone will be a product guy.
• In the future, Facebook will be your permanent record.
• In the future, the revolution will start with a single tweet.
• In the future, when people say they are going outside the grid, they will mean they aren’t logged into Facebook.
• In the future, Android developers will need to program using the Android SDK and the phone maker’s proprietary SDK, and the carriers’s SDK.

Million Idea

• Million Dollar Idea: A treadmill with a weight scale.
• Million Dollar idea: there is so much artificial flavoring, color, and seasoning in food. Patent dinosaur meat flavoring.
• Million Dollar Idea: Car alarm system that steams video of the surroundings of your car and scans for perps faces.
• Million Dollar idea: wasabi guacamole
• Million Dollar Idea: Carfax for people, including driving record, background check, work history, etc.
• Million Dollar idea: pepperoni pizza flavored breath mints.

Software Development

• More code, more problems.
• Code. Money. Respect.
• Code war is the new cold war.
• The programer-designer is the philosopher-king or our time.
• Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to gold farm and he’ll eat for a lifetime.

Team Leadership

• When the world is flat and information freely available there is a premium on creativity.
• There is no such thing as free lunch, especially if it’s lobster.
• Give a silicon valley startup founder a lemon and he’ll make a social networking site for people that like lemonade.

Product Placement

• I hope Twitter doesn’t become the next MySpace.
• There is no i in Apple.
• Google is buying Motorola for $12.5 Billion. Google is also developing a autonomous car, so in a few years it might buy Ford.
• It’s not Thanksgiving, so why did Google pay so much for a moto turkey?
• AT&T charges for services you use and most importantly for services you don’t, and they sell you out to the feds on top of that.
• I know that many G+ users are still in the early adopter stages of denial, but honestly, Google does not know how to do social right.

Quote

• Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. – P.T. Barnum
• Wall Street is now a huge mathematical game of chess where individual companies are just pawns. – Mark Cuban
• Search is dead. What people want is an answer. … You don’t need Trip Advisor, you don’t need Yelp. – @Jason, #TWiST 171

Questions

• Got Woot?
• You think Papa Murphy’s is related to Papa John’s?
• Has Flash lost it’s fizzle?
• If G+ was spun out of Google as an independent company it would be valued at $50 billion.
• What company will be around in 25 years, Apple, Zynga, Facebook, Google, eBay, Microsoft, …???
• Now they are making movies in 4D… What is next, 7D?
• If this is your third startup, are you really still a starting up?
• I just want to know, why are those birds so angry?

Randumb

• When life gives you bullshit, make lemonade.
• Untangling headphones in the dark.
• Current Status: somewhere between FML and IDGAFF.
• Zoned out from being on the zone for so long.
• The future is retro.
• Don’t trust your shit to chance.
• MTV has as much expertise to produce MTV’s Music Awards as the History Channel’s has to produce Ancient Aliens.
• It’s ironic how many people misuse the word irony.
• Even though I haven’t gone back to school for a while now, I can’t resist a good Back To School sale!
• I tired of Shark Week. When will they have Turtle Week or Salamander Week?
• If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were to be created now they would have been known as Angry Turtles.
• Total Retargeting
• Shift+Happens