Archive > June 2009

Hodgman: Obama, a Nerd President

The White House Correspondents Dinner has been a source for entertainment over the last few years.  First, it was Colbert tearing George W. Bush apart, from 10 feet away, in front of a large national media.  This past Friday, John Hodgman, a correspondant for The Daily Show and the PC character on the infamous Apple [...]

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Too Good to be Trulu

Traditional commerce is dead.  As a quick reminder, the model went a little something like this:
Step 1) Make a good product or service
Step 2) Offer said product/service in exchange for money
Sprinkle in some marketing, and you’ve got yourself a business.
Those were the days.

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A Really Horribly Bad Idea

Yesterday, I successfully ran 26.2 miles.  Today, I will not get out of bed.
There are two general lessons that I gathered from this experience:
1)  You will pay the price for taking short cuts in life
My training period was roughly 20 weeks shorter than what most programs call for.  I figured that I could push myself [...]

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