I sure hope I don’t haunt your dreams…
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Archive for January, 2010
like a man possessed
Sunday, January 31st, 2010under pressure, with care
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010I found this video absolutely fascinating. I’m a sucker for the junction of art and process, and this video highlights just such a situation that also happens to involve the making of good espresso. Here in Richmond, I’ve only experienced this level of care in coffee making at Ellwood’s Coffee at the top of Carytown. The first time I ordered a cappuccino there last year, in fact, the barista scrapped the initial shot of espresso because she didn’t like the way it was extracting. It took a little longer for my coffee, but the result was worth the wait.
Espresso, Intelligentsia from Department of the 4th Dimension on Vimeo.
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Conan Stands Up
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Oh man. I hope he doesn’t fade away from television or entertainment, or whatever. But I’m so glad to read Conan’s statement (through the New York Times) regarding NBC’s bone-headed move to shift the late night schedule around.
I’ll watch Conan on any network, any time slot, and I respect his decision not to participate in the sinking of a great ship as executed by an aimless network with a management team that seams to be as creative as GM’s design department.
the good don’t last
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Well the fun had to end some time.
Tomorrow I return to work after a nearly 2.5 week absence. I also start my second semester of business school. I’m not excited about going back to work at all, but truth be told I’m rather tentative about my first class of the week, too.
I’m trying very hard not to be cynical about things – after all, I was loathe to take an accounting class but ended up loving the course because of a fantastic teacher – but this is a bit different. It’s a course on marketing. And one of our books is about “leveraging social media.” Be still my lunch.
What I’m worried about is that we’ll spend a significant amount of time hearing about how “social media” is a magical nebulous tool that all businesses must learn to harness lest they fall perilously behind their competition. I’m afraid my classmates will leave the course believing that they need a Facebook page or Twitter account for their entrepreneurial endeavors. I’m afraid it will be more Comcast than 37 Signals.
I’m afraid it will further contribute to the sour image many have about MBAs, especially in the web-centric side of the IT community.
But what do I know? This is likely just anxiety, and I hope to be terribly wrong. I hope if, unfortunately, my expectations are even halfway met, that I will see it as an opportunity to research sound material for classroom discussion. I’ll start to get a better sense of this tomorrow evening, I suppose. Until then…
Stream Vampire Weekend’s new album online
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Less than a week until Contra releases, but until then you can hear the new hotness direct from the source: