December 2007
77 posts
“dub!
whats up. nice german skills. what about your spanish. and who is the nice...”
– I love getting emails from my old friends from Germany. I miss Berlin.
“In basketball you have to shoot 50%. If you make an extra 10 shots per hundred,...”
– Mark Cuban (via Andrew)
A life without clicks →
I think shit like this is cool…but that user interfaces will ultimately change in ways we cannot even imagine.
De-sponded →
there should also be term for when you try and bury a lame post with a bunch of other posts, thinking that the further down it is, the more diluted the stupidty becomes because its gayness is spread between a few other tumbles. This post probably qualifies. Kottke says, If one doesn’t already exist, there needs to be a term for writing a blog comment or Twitter update, thinking better of...
“Peter…in futbol, you are my beeeetch”
– Javier, to Peter, in the kitchen, 3 minutes ago.
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out...”
– Le Rochefoucauld I ran across this Tumbn and it stuck a cord. The truth of this quote is the primary question of my life right now?? Do you think it’s true? How do you know?
“Trying stuff is cheaper than deciding whether to try it. (Compare the cost of...”
– kottke.org
Executive Meeting
peter imai says: Those are pretty awesome. I want the Polski one!! I'm using the "She's Puts Out" one as my myspace icon. There is a link to the store in my album. :)
James Whitaker says: who wrote that?
peter imai says: [redacted]
James Whitaker says: I love her.
James Whitaker says: people like our shirts.
peter imai says: y...
peter imai says: im not getting a lot of love from shirt review sites
peter imai says: probably have to get an affiliate prog up first
James Whitaker says: fo sho
peter imai says: come outside for a sec to get fresh air and look at this survey real fast
James Whitaker says: no worries..we'll build the bitch from the ground up...
James Whitaker says: like our granpappys did.
peter imai says: grandpappys rolling in their grave
Gringo Ass Robbed
I was just fully robbed at the grocery store by a little Bolivian grammaw. They are notorious for shady math when they add up your veggie tab on their dirty little gypsy fingers, but this one must have thought I was missing a chromosome. She told me cinco cinquenta (5.50), I gave her a 10 peso bill, and she looks me in the eye, smiles, and hands me back 30 centavos. And I’m too illiterate to...
“But ‘Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him...”
– I think these are the best 3 sentences Steinbeck ever wrote…
“The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that...”
– Pablo Picasso. This is a very insightful quote, and exposes a great deal about not only Picasso’s art, but his entire metaphysics and epistemology. Compare and contrast that with this http://www.cordair.com/larsen/ . Which do you prefer? Which one lets you wake up in the morning? ...
The Dr. Seuss Jumble: Naming Web Sites →
This is sort of a coincidence since I posted about this very thing a few days, ago. Peter and I are stuggling to find a name for a very cool clothing website that is very Web 2.0 (user generated content, community, etc). I think thinking of a good business name is one of the fundamental steps in formulating the business in your mind and wrapping your brain around it. The problem is, there are not...
Man Drinks Liter of Vodka at Airport Line - Nearly... →
After living in Berlin for all of last year, I’d love to say I was surprised, or that I didn’t already know this fool was from the Ost. I miss Germany..
“We need some granularity surrounding the reservation page”
– My friend Leroy, in a corporate email I was cc’d on, forever reminding me that I have never had a corporate job and thus never been forced to us the word “granularity” in a sentence. I’ll take working in my underwear and not shaving for weeks.
zetahydrae: The problem with tumblelogging →
This guys thoughts on tumbling are pretty accurate I think. I am still in the infatuation stage, where I think tumbling is the coolest shit in the world. But it’s also I think there’s a lot of fluff to dig through in order to find the good content. There’s also a lot of uncreative people who simply reblog the ideas of others. That said, the ease of posting along with the multiple...
Full Circle
Sometimes I think life is like being lost in the woods, where you walk and walk and walk; only to find that for all your afforts, you’ve just made a humongous loop and you’re right back to where you started. Only this time, you’ve got the experience of that first trip to help you as you head off in a new direction. This is exactly how I felt yesterday, when we launched our new...
BOOZING TEES LAUNCHES! Who's gonna be the first...
So we’re launching our new drinking shirt site today and it feels great. It’s a mountain of work to put these things together. There are still some minor things we will be working on over the next weeks and as issues arise we’ll address them. We’ve got 50 already designed shirts to add as well, and will probably be adding them a few per week after the new year. We’re...
Hot Points – A blog by Go Daddy CEO and founder... →
This guy is fucking hilarious. Peep his earring. — rickyv
“hey jim. us guys enjoy your fucking travels around the world. i gave grandpa a...”
– Another one from uncle Mark.
“i was just fucking around at work last night doing my work. any way this is...”
– My cool Uncle Mark. He sometimes has a couple beers after works and decides to write me letters.
One Nozzled Noozer , Web 2.0 enough??? →
Peter and I are sitting around and trying to come up with name for a really cool e-commerce site I thought of in the shower last night. It’s something totally cool that no one is really doing online right now. So we’re thinking of names and decided to try nonsense words for a while since it’s become harder and harder to find a good domain. This led us to this little gem....
Argentines are vampires
So Peter and I have been in Buenos Aires for a few weeks now, which isn’t very long. We’ve also been working a lot to try and get our new sites up so we haven’t been going out a lot. That said, I have some initial thoughts on the lifestyle of the Porteno’s, and to tell the truth, it doesn’t make any sense at all to me. It seems to me that all the Argentine’s...
The DubCorp Business Model - An exercise in self...
So I have been thinking a lot about my business model lately as well as the traditional paradigms for e-commerce sites. Typically, on the internet, people strive to be the best. They want to create the “next big” thing; the killer app that will revolutionize the way people buy or communicate online. In short, they want to be the #1 in their category, whatever that may happen to be. ...
Dex on "Negative Identification" →
I refer to this phenomenon as oppositionism. Imagine if I told you I had a new website that was “nothing like Digg”. Well, you would have no idea what it was. Saying what you are not does not tell me what you are. You can see this phenomenon in effect wherever our generation expresses themselves. The best example is Che Guevara T-shirts. The wearers think, “I am nothing like the...
“Do you know it’s almost Christmas…?”
– Me, to Peter…commenting that it’s damn near Christmas time and neither one of us remembers because it’s 90 degrees every day and there’s no orgy of preparation and merrymaking and hysteria. I, surprisingly enough, miss the hell out of that shit.
“Necesito tomar un grande piss.”
– me. On trying to decare my need for a piss, but instead telling loudly our new roommates that I need to drink a huge piss. I’ve become the house clown with my attempts at Spanish and they bust up every time I say something…
Small world
Today, on two seperate occassions, Peter and I were each IM’ing with software engineers in India. They are freelancers we found on Craigslist. One of them wants us to pay her $3 an hour. This is after I woke up early to send help desk tickets to our programmers in Russia, which is 6 hours ahead. I can’t help but think that the world is getting smaller and smaller and that can only be...
“I saw the light… I’ve been baptized by the fire in your touch and...”
– Peter, singing Brooks and Dunn in the shower right now…
