With The Band

Watched a really interesting film on SnagFilms (a great startup, and JESS3 client!) this morning, regarding how America, since 2001, has been heading in the wrong direction. It definitely has a propaganda element to the film, but it raises a lot of very disturbing points, especially how some of the tactics, and exact terminology, used […]

Alex and I went to Disney World mid-June, as a graduation present. While I had been to Disneyland every year as a kid, I had never been to Disney World in my life, let alone Florida!

The logistics alone were amazing, and worth the prices. I checked my bags in at Dulles, and we never saw […]

I touched on this before, but Marc Andreesen’s essay about careers and creating and accepting opportunities rather than having a definite plan really resonated in me.
I believe a huge part of what people would like to refer to as “career planning” is being continuously alert to opportunities that present themselves to you spontaneously, when […]

This popped up on a picture I posted… Completely unrelated, but I wonder how they are doing it.

I doubt it’s any kind of recognition. My bet is it saw that I was attending these two events (or supposed to) at around the same time, and thought I might have taken it there.
May be more useful […]

I was reading the latest issue of Wired the other day in the gym, and flipped to an article about tilt-shift photography. Tilt-shift photography is a technique of taking a picture so that it looks as if the shot is of a scale model. This used to be done with expensive camera equipment, but recently […]

I first wrote about this here and here. But now, it’s done.Metro Times - Get DC Metro Train Times on Any Cell Phone - FREE
Fellow residents of the DC area! No more rushing to the nearest metro station, only to find the next train is 15 minutes away! Now, all you have to do is […]

I only show up on page 3 when you do a Google search for Zvi. Be on page 1 (possibly in top 5) by the end of the year.
Hrmm…. how does SEO work again?

I act like a giddy third-grader whenever I see something that people deem “futuristic” and “impossible”. When I saw this video, my jaw dropped. Unfortunately, they start out the video by showing you how it works, rather than showing the dazzling results first.
[via Engadget]

Why, of all the energy drinks (aside from the usual green tea that I drink), did I pick up TAB? Why am I downing them? Who knows..

Laughed my ass off for a good 10 minutes.