Category: Culture

Greg Giraldo, RIP

Greg Giraldo passed away today from a prescription drug overdose. He was a great comedian. Here he is roasting David Hasselhoff recently on Comedy Central, via YouTube: Update: Viacom took that clip down, unfortunately. Below is a shorter clip of Giraldo from the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers, via Comedy Central’s website. Also, [...]

Regretsy’s 9/11 post

Hat tip to Cheryl for this from Regretsy, “The Mother of all 9/11 Posts”. Before clicking you may want to read this intro of the post which describes what’s to come:
To commemorate the 9th anniversary of what I like to call “The Unpleasantness”, I’m going to subject you to an extensive, handpicked assortment of Nine-Elevenalia. [...]

Updates and thoughts for 9/2/10

Wine is terroir

I had the pleasure of meeting Arnold Waldstein Tuesday evening at his local watering hole, Terroir. Nice place; don’t let the current iteration of their website throw you off. It was the first time I’d seen a bar have Riesling on tap, but I ended up having some Greek red, the name of [...]

Some thoughts and links

Iconography
Below is a proposed icon for the Portfolio Armor iPhone app. My design team ignored my suggested colors (silver, light blue, and gold, to stand out against the iTunes background) Update: my project manager informed me today that they tried my color scheme and found it didn’t look right. Let me know what you [...]

Notes from Cleveland

Stranded in Cleveland
Due to a few mishaps, I’m writing this from the airport in Cleveland, where I had a layover and am stranded until the next flight back to Newark, which won’t leave until after 6am. Now that the airport has emptied out, the WiFi is working faster, so I’ve been able to get a [...]

Flashback to 1998

Thanks again to those of you who voted for Portfolio Armor for iPhone in the StreetApps Challenge. I mentioned yesterday I’d put up a 1990s flashback post, travel permitting. Thanks to in-flight WiFi, travel permits, so here it is. By the way, if you haven’t voted yet, you can do so by clicking here. Much [...]

Crowd sourcing experiment

When I was in grade school, occasionally the cafeteria would have make-your-own peanut butter & jelly day. “Crowd sourcing” wasn’t a gleam in any neoligist’s1 eye back then, but it followed a similar general idea: provide the basic components, and let the consumers put them together.
I thought I’d try something along those lines here. [...]

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