I’m reading the book, Viral Loop, a copy of which I was able to borrow from my public library. While I have only read the Prologue, the Introduction, and the section on Facebook in Chapter 11, I have been fascinated by the stories of Hot or Not, Tupperware, and the early days of Facebook. However, [...]
Or, just work out like one. These videos show you how:
Lindsey Vonn’s workout
Apolo Ohno’s workout
From the Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, by Brian Ashcraft, product description on Amazon.com:
“From manga and anime to movies, magazines, video games, advertising and music, Japanese schoolgirls are everywhere. For years, schoolgirls have shown up in internationally popular anime such as Sailor Moon, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Blood: [...]
From the screenplay by Eric Roth, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (find out more about the screenplay here):
“…What I think is, it’s never
too late…or, in my case, too
early, to be whoever you want to
be…There’s no time limit, start
anytime you want…change or stay
the same…there aren’t any
rules…We can make the best or
worst of [...]
About two days ago, I set up a new e-mail address on my GoDaddy domain. I have received one e-mail at the new address (a welcome message from GoDaddy), but I have not sent any e-mails from the new address nor have I used the new e-mail address to register on any websites.
Today, I used the [...]
It’s a beautiful day in Florida; 61°F in the shade at 10 a.m. The cold winter was hard on most of the ornamental plants, but the annual rye grass that I threw down in November loved it. Here is a picture (taken within the last half-hour) of our green grass and freeze-damaged plants.
I was in my car in the parking lot outside a doctor’s office waiting for someone. To kill time, I got my camera out and experimented with make-shift macro-photography. I took this picture of a nickel sitting on my thigh.
Taken with a 55-200mm zoom lens, set at 200mm, through a 60mm lens handheld backwards against [...]
This 2-minute video illustrates how to tell a story in the style of 60-Minutes:
I left my car in the Blake High School parking lot and walked over to the University of Tampa to try to catch a glimpse of the President. The security was impressive, with SWAT-type guys on rooftops and lots of cops and secret service types on the ground. Then a huge motorcade arrived with about [...]
I’ve read this lyric three times now and I can’t say I understand it. My assessment is that this song is important to my son’s orchestra conductor not because of the lyric, but because the music is predominantly string orchestra, one of the few such songs (the only?) to go number one on both the U.S. [...]