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March 10, 2009
Going To SXSW!
In a few days, I am going to SXSW with my company, Troubadour Mobile. It’ll be cool. It’ll be awesome. I’ll miss lots of school.
Ever since I heard of SXSW, probably from Valleywag, I’ve wanted to go. There’ll be cool music, parties, swag, nerds, etc. I’m pretty stoked.
If you are also going to SXSW and you want to “follow” me (on the custom social network for conference attendees, my.sxsw.com, which is kinda cool), you can find me here.
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March 08, 2009
Jonathan Coulton Show in Ann Arbor (The Ark) 3/6/09
I have written about Jonathan Coulton in the past. Last Friday, I got a chance to actually see him perform live, in front of my own eyes! First, however, the opening band had to play for a while. The band in question was "Paul and Storm," which I like to call, "Paul and the Storm." But apparently Storm is a human being. And it's a guy, not the female X-Man (oxymoron?) who controls lightning. Their first song was about how they're the opening band, and no one paid to hear them and we hope that they leave soon so Jonathan Coulton could get on stage. At least they have a good sense of humor about it! Their songs were pretty interesting for the most part. They had a way of choreographing things (Paul was always doing something with his hands) that kept it interesting and their harmonies were pretty sweet. They also gave out random prizes like an uncomfortably small Batman mask and monkey keychain that lit up and made monkey noises. More …
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March 03, 2009
Managing Rejection (And Success!)
Over the past few years, I've found myself in a number of situations where I've been rejected. I read an article via BoingBoing on why some people see failure as crippling, while others see it as a motivator. Pretty interesting stuff. I guess I fall into the latter category as I haven't really let my numerous failures drag me down. When I was fresh out of college (for the first time), I got an amazing opportunity to interview at Google. If you were a CS major in 2006, Google was pretty much the holy grail. In my mind, it definitely was (well, maybe second to Facebook, but they never got back to me). Like many of my adventures, I wrote about this in a blog post. Long story short, I was rejected. I think at that point I was a bit cocky and thought Google was a sure thing. You should never have a sense of entitlement; that leads down a pretty depressing path. Getting rejected was a good wake-up call that I needed to improve myself if I wanted to end up with my dream job. At the time I thought I had missed an amazing opportunity. This may have been true; I'll never know what my life would be like if I had started working at Google. Looking back, though, I think the rejection was really a blessing. More …
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February 21, 2009
Nacho Libre: Spam Magnet
Maybe I'm on some kind of "spam roll" right now. But after checking my spam bin in Wordpress, I noticed that about 100% of my blogspam was directed towards an old post I made about Nacho Libre. More …
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February 20, 2009
Will Smith: Web Redesigner
For some reason I decided to look at my spam in Gmail and this was the first spam message:
Apparently when he’s not rapping, Will Smith redesigns people’s websites out of the kindness of his heart (though I guess he also works it as a side business).
Oh my god. I just realized I made an almost carbon copy of this post regarding George Lucas and spamming. Am I that predictable!?
