- Celeb style haircut
Went back to Arrojo today for a model cut (only 20 bucks!) and felt like a bit of a model. My stylist Nicole Obert was apparently on a reality tv show/competition called Shear Genius.
I was in dire need of a haircut and wanted to look good to meet Becki’s parent’s tonight at Passover dinner. Should [...]
- Monolingual
I worked with Neal on Friday, and we used a tool I haven’t worked with before- Monolingual. In this case we were cleaning up an Apple 10.5 computer to use as the base for an image that would then go to dozens (or maybe hundreds) of other computers. We wanted this base system to be [...]
- Heat, please.
Winter came quick and the wind chill is 17° today in NYC.
On Wednesday Becki and I had spent a quite lovely day coworking together. Becki was diligently working on some stories for myyearbook while I distractedly worked on invoicing & leftover cleanup projects for some clients. But the kitchen was so chilly that we had [...]
- Adsalespros
I approached Jason Horowitz about working together on a fledgling new idea he had for a town hall destination for advertising sales professionals. Jason is a respected career sales professional himself.
The previous AdSalesPros.com site was built statically in HTML, using tables instead of Cascading Style Sheets. This would require recoding for every blog post [...]
- WhartonAngels.com
I was asked by some of the top executives of the Wharton Club of New York to assist them in designing a web destination to attract entrepreneurs and manage deaflow for the Wharton Angel Network.
Having already interacted with the Angelsoft system I utilized this as the platform for interested entrepreneurs to submit business plans. Wordpress [...]
- China kids video
I had the great joy of spending six weeks in China back in 2003. When returning from my time spent there I really had the desire to go and live in China for at least a year. The culture is so distinctly different from the US.
It was getting off the beaten path, away from the [...]
- Further proof of drug use at NASA?
As much as I wanted to, I never did get to go off to Space Camp when I was 12. I had to make do reading and re-reading the Time Life book series on the various planets.
It brought me right back to those days longing to be in a spacesuit as I read the tripped [...]
- The NYC hamster wheel vs. the hamster wheel of the Valley
Reading about the endless hamster wheel of Silicon Valley made me reflect on this effect in NYC.
New York has the same effect espoused in this article- to endlessly drive you to ever higher echelons of wealth. But the effect is less-pronounced due to other factors, at least from my experience.
While the very wealthy are always [...]
- Time tweaks
New York is a city of multi-taskers. Most of my peers in the tech industry (media, publishing, advertising..) all have a variety of jobs, gigs, tasks, etc. My friend Nichelle was quoted in the Times in an article about being able to juggle several varying kinds of different work at once. She manages to handle [...]
- Persistence
When I was young I had the good fortune to travel on one nice trip per year. It wasn’t because my family had the money to- we were just scraping by- it was because my mom had the “luck” to win supermarket and manufacturer contests for free trips.
Now in reality it wasn’t luck at all- [...]
