Having once played football against (and losing to) Millsaps College on this very field, this win holds a special place in my heart. It’s great they made ESPN too. Not my alma mater, but these two teams do play in the same conference.
Add comment October 28th, 2007
Bill Maher on the iPhone price cut:
“Early adopters always pay a premium. “Early adopters” being a business term meaning dipsh*ts who stand in line for 6 hours…for a freaking phone. It’s not a price cut, it’s a repeal on the nerd tax.”
“If you didn’t have to be the first on your block to have the latest gizmo, you would now have an extra $200 to spend on your imaginary girlfriend.”
Add comment September 17th, 2007
Hej Du! This post is for Grizz, who seems to repeatedly lose the email message that contains his favorite video… I wonder what my grandkids will be teaching me someday?
Add comment September 13th, 2007
And Apple didn’t even go as far as showing the iMac with the optional wireless keyboard and mouse.
I love the new, thinner iMacs (and keyboard!), although the black rear panel is going to take some getting used to.
Add comment August 7th, 2007
One year ago, yesterday, Smirnoff launched it’s award-winning Tea Partay viral video advertising campaign on YouTube. The purpose being to promote it’s Raw Tea malt beverage product. The video used a hip-hop theme to exploit the stereo-typical east-coast preppie style. Something about this video made me, and a lot of other people, watch it repeatedly and talk about it (the true sign of a successful viral marketing campaign). The YouTube Tea Partay videos alone have accrued more than 3.5 million combined views. That is a whole lot of (nearly) free advertising.
Yesterday, in an attempt to repeat the success, Smirnoff released the west-coast response. This time, it is a Green Tea Partay. I am not sure this attempt will prove as successful for the Smirnoff crew, as this video is just not nearly as fun or catchy. But, who knows, sequels do tend to make money in the box office, because people can’t seem to pass them up (regardless of not typically meeting expectations). In addition, YouTube certainly has more users than it did last year at this time. Could that make a difference? Time will tell.
Add comment August 3rd, 2007
With travels, I have not found much time to post. But, here are some new and old videos that I have been enjoying recently…
Flight of the Conchords - If You’re Into It
Ok Go - Here It Goes Again
Goat Girl - Not Just Pretty
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger.
P.S. - Notice the clean design and full screen mode on the Vimeo embedded video (last), as opposed to the YouTube videos…I love it.
Add comment July 21st, 2007
In science, absolute proof of a theory is considered impossible to achieve (you know like global warming…and gravity), but I think we have proved my theory that people in this world are absolutely, without a doubt, weird.
As if we needed proof, here he is in all his glory, the professional line-sitter, Greg Packer. Already well-known for his desire to be first in line, Greg starting sitting in front of the 5th Avenue NYC Apple Store this past Monday at 5 AM, waiting for tomorrow’s release of the much-anticipated iPhone. Does he care that much about the iPhone? Not at all (see video below). So what does this guy love so much about always being the first in line? Maybe he was always last in the lunch line in school, or maybe he makes a bundle selling Wii’s and signed Brandy posters on eBay…who knows.
Regardless of how weird he may be, I still find myself envious that he will have an iPhone and I (living in wonderful Vermont) will not.
1 comment June 28th, 2007
A friend’s email just reminded me of this classic quote:
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to
alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?… the Great Depression,
passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?… raised tariffs, in an effort to collect
more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know
the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the
Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what
this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve.
Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve,
you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is
very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in
1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. “Voodoo” economics.
Bueller?…Bueller?
1 comment April 23rd, 2007
Apple announced today, that they have sold their 100 millionth iPod.
That is a whole lot of iPods! To put that number in perspective, here are a few stats I came up with. Disclaimer: I can’t even remember when I last took a math class.
The average cost of the iPod, since the October 2001 release date is $296.20. So, consumers have spent more than 29.6 billion US dollars on iPods - more than many countries GDP.
The average length of an iPod (taking all current models into account) is 3.07″. If all the iPods ever sold were laid end to end, they would stretch from Los Angeles to New York City, wrap around the Fifth Avenue Apple Flagship Store, and head back to LA - only to stop 73 miles from downtown Los Angeles. This is approximately 4850 miles of iPods.
Any others? Who wants to calculate the landfill waste or diminishing marginal utility for each additional iPod one acquires? I’ll leave that to the Freakonomics blog.
1 comment April 9th, 2007
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