February 2008
Where Are The Posts on Business, Buddy? →
My last several posts have been dealing with a variety of subjects:
- Diversity
- My Quest to be the #1 Douche Bag on Google
- Job postings at Lijit
- VCWear (a snarky/satrical take on…
Forgetting Diversity →
My friend Andrew Hyde launched VC Wear recently. Before it went live, we were sitting at Trident and I tweeted about the experience.
“Dude,” he giggled. “Can you write a blog post about it?” so…
Crazy - Cassandra Wilson One hallmark of Jazz is...
Rules for Normal Living - RJD2 I found RJD2 while...
Every day I post the first song that plays when I...
MobLogic's Marketing Plan →
lindsaycampbell: Sometimes you have to cut out the middleman and take your marketing plan to the streets! (via moblogical) When I was a kid, television shows, music videos and the like were so magical. One would imagine that with the advent of camcorders, computers and software, that the magic would be gone. For some reason, even this video, which I imagine was done for 1/billionth of the cost of...
Ever Dream of Working With Me? →
Now is your chance. Lijit is hiring several developers and a community catalyst/marketing/evangelist.
Lijit is at an interesting time in its existence. For the past year or so, a group of highly talented folks have been working on a really cool product. Now that we are bringing that product to market, we are finding the demand is accelerating at a pace we didnt expect. While positive, it has also...
Nothing Compares 2 U - Prince. Sinead...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-24) →
Stevie Wonder
The Magnetic Fields
The White Stripes
U2
Radiohead
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Friendly Intelligence - February 23, 2008 →
My sister, Natalia, and her boyfriend, Ted, were in New York City for their first time this past week. Ted had bought a week vacation for both my sister’s birthday (Feb 20 - see I remembered!) and for Valentines Day.
On Friday, I get a frantic call from Natalia telling me that the weather in NYC had scuttled their travel plans, and did I mind if they came to Colorado for a couple of days before...
iTunes iChing: Dreams - Sebadoh I listened to this...
Haunted - Sinead O’Connor & Shane MacGowan →
fred-wilson:this song (via tumblr) is amazing I always wonder what would have happened if Sinead didnt ripup the picture of the Pope. She is amazing.
Bangers and Mash - Radiohead (Live in Copenhagen...
Douche Bag Quest - I Want To Be The #1 Douche Bag →
I need your help. I recently read about how people are ranking for their names in Google, and telling folks that they are the #1 “insert name here.”
Well, I am #1 for Micah Baldwin, so its time to turn my focus on a much more important honor.
I want to be the #1 douche bag in the world.
I want to be the first result in Google when someone types in “douche bag.” When that happens, I will make...
Watchlindsaycampbell: (via adamelend) I’m not sure who made this or how Adam found this but not only is it awesomely art- directed, it has a funnay punchloin. Please hammer dont hurt ‘em.
iTunes iChing: Busby Berkeley Dreams - The...
VCWears On My Ass →
So late last week (or maybe early this one, I kinda dont really keep track when its Andrew Hyde. After all he is so bland, that its difficult to remember specific conversations) Andrew told me about his “awesome new idea.” How he and (whatever name he decided to drop) were doing StartupWeekend Kalamazoo and they were getting pitched ideas. After all, we all know that Andrew is really a top notch...
Stanford drops tuition for some students →
gtmcknight: Stanford University will announce today that it will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year. (via christmasgorilla) This is beautiful. When Stanford started it was free for the first some number of years. The idea was always to provide a free education. Glad to see they are getting back to it.
5 rules from Wieden + Kennedy
didyouevernotice: ** Act Stupid. “Our philosophy is to come in ignorant every day. The idea of retaining ignorance is sort of counterintuitive, but it subverts a lot of [problems] that come from absolute mastery. if you think you know the answer better than somebody else does, you become closed to being fresh.” states Jelly Helm, creative director. ** Shut up. “The first thing we do when we meet...
iTunes iChing: If Your Poison Gets You - Frank...
Inkage
pop17: Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404 on Vimeo. wow. just. wow.
Lijit Uncovers a Douche Bag →
This afternoon, I am sitting with a good friend of mine, Jim Turner, at The Cup in Boulder, CO. We were talking about Lijit, as we often do, and I asked him if he saw that his top search was “social media douchebag.”
Laughing, he said that he hadnt, and wondered aloud who would have done such a thing.
“Have you checked your Lijit stats?” I replied. “After all you can see where the searches have...
iTunes iChing: Mr. November - The National...
Its important to be specific
micah: she will have to have sex with for it tho. just so you know
danny: sex with?
micah: I guess thats up to her. dammit. I need to be more clear next time
5 Lessons Learned From Gordon Ramsay →
First, I have never met Gordon Ramsay, but I have watched him on television. I watched Hell’s Kitchen pretty religiously, and then enjoyed watching Kitchen Nightmares. After moving to Boulder, I finally got my TiVo setup, and one of the first shows it recorded for me was Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares from BBC-America. So, after 3-4 episodes were recorded, I finally sat down and started to watch...
iTunes iChing: Nobody’s Baby Now - Nick Cave...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-17) →
U2
Stevie Wonder
Amplive
The Beach Boys
Bob Dylan
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Friendly Intelligence - February 16, 2008 →
I have put up a new page called HamSwords Members which lists all the blogs that my friends write. Some are very prolific, and others post more infrequently, but all of them post things that I find really interesting. Except this week.
I take this to be the fact that most of them have been busy around Valentines Day and other activities that have taken them away from blogging. I look forward to...
Why I Moved to Boulder →
Right now I am sitting at my kitchen table with Andrew Hyde, Charley Hine and Danny Newman, the original HamSwords.
Is there a better reason?
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