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Doodling is a Morning Shower Equivalent

Doodling is a Morning Shower Equivalent - A week or two ago I spent tons of hours in phone interviews and while deep in conversation I found myself doodling. And yet, hiring employees is THE MOST important thing I do at work. Literally nothing that I do is more important. Its just the most synergistically enabling thing possible right? But if I hire the wrong person - it could be the entropy enabling thing that I could do, right?

Random Thoughts On the Gone Girl Movie

Random Thoughts On the Gone Girl Movie - Random Thoughts On the Gone Girl Movie - The latest Gone Girl trailer and the resultant churn around it has been really fascinating to me. "OH MY GOSH - Did Ben Affleck's new role kill his wife?!", "He's being investigated for murder?!", "Why'd he take this role?", "Should I read the book and ruin the movie?", "I can't wait!". Etc, etc. Really makes me chuckle. What they don't realize is that Gillian Flynn re-wrote a different ending from the book for the screenplay. Did you catch that? The movie ends differently than the book. Hard stop. For those of you who haven't read the book... that is the end of this blog post for you. Thanks for swinging by. I'm diving into spoilers for you - ie, I'm going down a layer. Go away already.

Ridley Scott The Martian Blade Runner 2 and Prometheus 2

Ridley Scott The Martian Blade Runner 2 and Prometheus 2 - But now Ridley has his hands full with three new enormous movies under his purview. The are two that I am incredibly excited about. The first one (not in any particular order) is The Martian. The Martian is a brilliant Robinson Crusoe type of story with a man that is accidentally abandoned on Mars by himself. The book was written by Andy Weir. The Martian was unlike any book I had ever read before. I kept expecting it to be something completely different than it was. And it continued to surprise me time after time. Just a fantastic and clever book end to end.

Automata Movie Dystopian Glory

Automata Movie Dystopian Glory - Automata totally looks like an even better Blade Runner dystopia than Blade Runner 2 could ever be. It looks really tight. Very interested. And the plot looks fantastic as well. Not sure about having Puss and Boots, Antonio Banderas play the lead. But he used to be a huge box draw. No? Eh. What worries me though is Melanie Griffith. Did you see her in that trailer? Oh my holy botox backlash Batman. What went wrong there? Sheesh. Eventually actors and actresses are going to realize that its just better to sag than stay frightfully and unnaturally taught their entire lives. Just say no to cosmetic surgery folks.

Banksy In New York Book Available

Banksy In New York Book Available - “Banksy in New York” by writer and photographer Ray Mock is the ultimate companion to Banksy’s month-long project on the streets of New York in October, 2013.

The Great American Ennui

The Great American Ennui - I'll come in again. Robin Williams. I've been thinking about him, his death, and this issue since I inadvertently Chromecast his suicide into my living room a week or so ago. Remove the celebrity from this situation - which is obviously impossible to do - and there will be around 40,000 others that will erase themselves from the map over the course of 2014. De-mapping now accounts for more deaths than does car accidents, which is somewhere in the 32k range +/-.

The Death of the American Pantheon

The Death of the American Pantheon - Growing up, I fell in love with comic books as most American teenage males did. I was a pretty big Batman fan. No, that didn't come out right. I was an amazingly out of control Batman fan. I walked side by side with Bruce as The Joker emptied Arkham and Bane broke his back. I was there as Robin died. As a new Robin was recruited and died again. I saw as the books turned darker and darker... the epitome of noir. And watched as the comic printing presses just pumped more and more books into an already over saturated market. I'll get back to that point in a moment.

Get The Bird Box Scared Out Of You

Get The Bird Box Scared Out Of You - Occasionally you find a book that you dig and so you tell a few people about it. Right? And then you forget that you've even read them. And when people ask whether they should read it you say... yeah, sure. It's good. But whatever you are reading right now instantly over rights that particular recommendation. MOST books are kinda like that. Right? They are good. You enjoy them... but when they are gone they lose some of that intensity.

Paper Laser Cutting Magic

Paper Laser Cutting Magic Take some high quality stock paper.  Add an expensive laser cutting machine.  And then add a...

The Heart of a Comet Revealed

The Heart of a Comet Revealed - Pardon me, but this news is just not getting nearly enough coverage. The European Space Agency has just completed a momentous achievement. Rosetta, ESA's spacecraft/probe has now become the very first probe to orbit a comet. As Rosetta approached the (terribly named comet - Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko - I say we rename it to the more aptly named - 'Wobbling Duck') comet it became clear that there are two main sections connected by a neck that holds it together.

Conclusive Proof Facebook Doesn’t Delete Your Deleted Account Data

Conclusive Proof Facebook Doesn't Delete Your Deleted Account Data - I guarantee you, in no uncertain terms... that when you delete your account Facebook definitely does not delete your information. There aren't even TRYING to hide the fact that they know you intimately still...

Happy 4th – Fireworks Filmed with a Drone

Ever wondered what its like to be a firework, and what a firework sees? Well here you go! Happy fourth everyone. Stay safe and try not to detach any body parts playing with fireworks!

Americans Don’t Get the World Cup

Americans Don't Get the World Cup - Americans just don't get what being fanatical about a sport even looks like. No. We just don't. When I moved to England for a bit I experienced a whole lot of amazingness that I just didn't have context for coming from America. Zero. For example, watching the winter Olympics with students from fifty different nations? The Brits were calling the French, Frogs and the Norwegians were calling the Brits pacifists, and the Brits were calling the Norwegians Whale Killers... it got intense up in there real fast. I remember walking out to go get something to eat with an ex-member of the IRA after watching some Olympics. And we were joined by a member of the police that hunt the IRA. Seriously. And they both had me check under the car for bombs. HAHAH. What does one look for when looking under a car for bombs? Needless to say after I checked, they both checked.