I find most of his essays insightful, but not so much this one, and it's a problem which I particularly need some help with.
- Mr. Gunn
Yup, I'm in the same boat Bill. But it is easy to get distracted....
- Joanmarie
Exactly, Bill. So, I guess the internets aren't productive? Plus, I feel a lot *more* distracted when my computer is "disconnected from the Internet."
- Anthony Citrano
I feel your pain... Trying to get off the crack of Twitter, e-mail or FF for that mater is hard. I augment Gmail with GTD for Gmail extention which imprisons me in that particular environment even more deeply. Spending lots of time online is OK as long as you produce enough value (make money) within give amount of time. Once that link is broken and tickers keeps feeding your addictive neural pathways, there is a problem.
- Mindaugas Dagys
hi Paul, I have translated this post into chinese for noncommercial use. Following is the link:http://www.yeeyan.com/article... Please tell me if there is any problem with this, I will remove the translation. To be frank, your words inspired me a lot, though I am neither a programmer nor a hacker, the principles and the way you analyse how to start a startup is applicable to other industries than programming, too, Thank you, dude. Best regards, pestwave
- pestwave
Says the company that's so fond of sending me memory cards in boxes big enough to hold thousands of them.
- Eric P
Can they do this for children's toys too? Those things are like Fort Knox with all the tie downs.
- AJ Kohn
nobody thinks of the seniors that have to buy these hard to open products ///
- johnpiercy
I've never encounted a children's toy that used the tie down technique that was worth buying (IE: Fisher Price garbage). Our kids have received items like this as gifts and we stick it in the basement, wrap it up and give to someone else at the next birthday party.
- stretta
from twhirl
@stretta: While our favorite toys are books and puzzles, from time to time one of the plastic toys is decent enough.
- AJ Kohn
I've bitched about this before in so many places.. I've even seen packaging within packaging :S After a particularly nasty item dropped my way I felt compelled to make a video! http://www.alphaxion.com/?p=77
- alphaxion
Despite being careful, I've cut myself countless times on that stupid plastic packaging. It may be necessary in brick and mortar stores to prevent shoplifting, but there should be an alternative to online buying.
- jcunwired
On the other hand. Amazon shipped three camelback bottles from the same order in three over-sized boxes. So, safety is good, but wasteful shipping is bad.
- Stephen Pierzchala
@Thomas, I'll second that about kids toys! For the life of me I don't understand why every little piece of each toy has to be wired or tie wrapped to the box, covered with plastic and then shrink wrapped!
- Jeff P. Henderson
"Nike Hindsight is, put simply, like giving bicyclists a pair of bifocals for their peripheral vision. By using Fresnel lenses on the sides of eye wear, riders can detect motion in a field of view beyond the normal human limit of 180º. To get technical, high power, diverging Fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º of view on either side. In doing this, vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process."
- Dan Hsiao
from Bookmarklet
I very much want to try a pair of these out.
- Kevin Fox
I wonder how long it would take to get used to objects appearing in the wrong place. I could see these becoming a must-have. I won't bike without polarized lenses. (I want to know where drivers are looking, and whether parked cars are occupied. That's probably more useful in the suburbs though. In the city, "everyone is trying to kill me" is a reasonable approximation.)
- Seth
Ha, I had this idea a few years ago when I was snowboarding in the swiss alps!
- Tobias Boonstoppel
A featured dolphinarium with over 20 bottlenose dolphins flown in from the Solomon Islands was developed despite controversy from environmental groups and some residents of the islands that protested the decision to sell the dolphins, and the 30-hour plane flight to transport them to Dubai.
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
yeah, dubai basically equals hotels you-cant-even-believe-exist all over the place
- Melissa Maskevich
Been reading up the development over there for the last few months and it's amazing what they have put in place. Definitely heading there for my honeymoon!
- Joe Dawson
aside from the obviously expensive plane ticket, how expensive is a vacation in Dubai? You'd think with all that competition going on there for extravagance, the prices might be driven down a little.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
It's actually not too bad Mark but then again, I live in London. Pick the right time and you can enjoy a good week out there for not too much at all. The most expensive stuff out there is really the nightlife (drinks etc..) and property prices.
- Zee.
those people are crazy.. awesome crazy!
- Tim Hoeck
are there any spoilers? I've not done season 4 yet
- Toby Graham
There're quotes from 5 already, Toby... :\ Get off FriendFeed and jump on sidereel LOL
- Mona Nomura
HAHAHAHA. As soon as I started reading them, I could hear his voice screaming them! I love Ari.
- Trish R
Yup, I'm on this like flies on a turd.
- Toby Graham
My favorite Ari Gold moment (not quote) was when Lloyd quit because his boyfriend left him and Ari lied for Lloyd, giving him an alibi for cheating and got his boyfriend back to make Lloyd come back to work. LOL!
- Trish R
My favorite was when Ari was going to leave his old firm a la Jerry McGuire. He asked Llyod to come with him and Lloyd said (paraphrasing) "do you promise not to make any more gay jokes?"...Ari replied "No, but I'll try my best" have to blog this...
- Ryan
Every moment with Ari is GOLD. I love the way he interacts with his wife. Love him and Lloyd. Love watching him, Turtle, and Johnny Drama. I just LOVE Ari. I think my ideal man is Ari Gold haha!
- Mona Nomura
I love all the characters. The show wouldn't be as great as it is if there wasn't all those great characters with all those great lines. Billy Walsh cracks me up, too.
- Trish R
The Ari character totally makes this show. Oh, hai mona! BTW, the story line in Entourage echoes actual events surrounding Troy Duffy (Boondock Saints) See doc. "Overnight" ... Wahlberg, Weinstein, esp., got burned... this is sweet revenge...
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
from twhirl
If this was about the GOP, there would be talking heads vomiting bile on TV about how the email from "Mom" was sexist and insensitive since Barack's mother died a few years ago.
- Thaths
offtopic , but... hey, how did you put here 4 pictures and one title same time? and how did you put pictures without URL for original page? there is no bookmarklet reference.
- A.T.
On the beta FF, you can post pictures directly, silpol.
- Yolanda
These STILL make me laugh and Susan wtf hahahhahahaha
- Mona Nomura
Snake Oil refers to the old practice of selling shit in a bottle (snake oil) and promising Fountains of Youth, Cure Alls, etc. (common practice of the late 1800s - often peddled by gypsy wagons and other wayfarers ready to make a fast buck err penny)... snake oil! augh!! these ads are all crap! just like the old snake oil bottles!
- Susan Beebe
hahahahah I'm googling right now, Susan!!
- Mona Nomura
Except that we're not more secure without those things.
- Paul Buchheit
Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Yet another reason not to vote for the GOP. They could have held up our freedom, but instead chose to gleefully throw it away for false security. That said, the dems haven't been much better, but they weren't in complete control for most of the time since 2001...
- Internet's Tad
My second thought after I saw the news that a plane hit the World Trade Center - "OMG - there go our freedoms! The government will use this as the perfect excuse to take them away... we'll be under martial law in a few days." Well at least the last part didn't come true...
- Her Lindsay-ness
Does Mona actually sleep? I happen to stumble upon her every time i m in!
- Hayk H.
Well the explains it. I couldn't understand why there weren't any Mona N posts when I logged on earlier today ;)
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
No - still running on no sleep. I have no clue how and why I'm still functioning. I'm drunk. I'm going to bed... Gotta wake up in like 5 hours... G'nite and see y'all tomorrow. :)
- Mona Nomura
Nite Mona...sweet dreams and get some sleep! :)
- Emma
:( bloody hell. already leaving us..? Ok, Ok, catch up with your sleep!
- Hayk H.
Don't be afraid. Be unafraid. Be bold. Be crazy. Be different. Burn your neckties. Give your suits to a homeless shelter. Wear black T-shirts. No matter what anyone working for you does, tell them it's not good enough. Tell them it's shit. Tell them they're shit. Threaten to fire them. Annoy your superiors. Irritate your colleagues. Insist on perfection, and then, when you get it, insist on making it more perfect. Got it? Good. Start today.
- Michael Leuker
Eh, the real reason behind this sort of thing is that consumer philosophy changes across regions. It has nothing to do with the iPhone's quality. Some things sell great in some areas and not so great in others. Items that sell like crazy in Japan might not sell very well here in the US, for example.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva it has got nothing to do with consumer philosophy in this case. The hacked, illegal version of iPhone 1.0 must have outsold the legal 2.0 version multiples of times over. It has got everything to do with price. Pure and simple.
- Paresh Jain
"Technology is taking such rapid strides forward at such a blurring pace that what is considered a marvelous novelty turns into a mundane common object within no time. To classify and bunch a set of man-made marvels from a world that is being constantly altered is a pretty tough job. Finding them is easy enough in a world filled with man-made wonders but the relevance of such a compilation will be short-lived compared with a list from the ancient world. Yet we embark on a journey across the planet and beyond to try and find out the best the world has to offer—our own creations that leave us in awe."
- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet