Words can never hurt me. |
"That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking."
– Nietzsche
Words can never hurt me. |
"That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking."
– Nietzsche
Staging for Google street view |
Earlier this May, some folks gathered on Smithsonia Way on the North Shore near the Mattress Factory while the Google van drove by to record pictures for google street view. There were samauris, a marching band, a large chicken, some firemen, and a bunch of other random things. check out the project website, a street with a view. here is a direct link to the google street view.
Defending the gift card – Your opinion is not better than mine. |
If there’s one thing that I hate most, it’s when people tell me things have to be a certain way, "just because." This post is not directed at any 1 person, but at 1 particular thought. When someone says that gift cards are cheating or call me lazy for giving gift cards, what they are not realizing is that their own actions are offensive to me. I’ll try to keep my defense of the gift card in a bulleted list.
And to debunk the nay-sayers:
The neutralizers, or reasons I can understand:
I’m a little frustrated with group think, I think you can tell. When email first came around, do you think people said, "oh my, don’t email me, write me a letter, that’s how it should be done." You bet your arse they did. Does that mean they were wrong? No, but it doesn’t mean it was right either. People have opinions, and people have feelings. Sometimes the two collide. You can either learn to love people for their difference of opinions, or try and change them. How about you work on the gift of understanding, K?
Times have changed |
heh, just browsing through the old posts on my blog and found this: http://www.sixf00t4.com/article480.html Pretty funny considering the timing and my recent thoughts on turning 26. I don’t remember writing that post at all, and that is why I love documenting my life.
the latest gadget or guessing the next bandwagon |
Tim, Jordan, and I were down at Rock Bottom wednesday night and we were talking about facebook applications and their new found popularity and demand. Facebook itself has transmogrified itself from the first incarnation as a Harvard thing, then a college thing, then branched out to include high school students, and now it’s just for everybody. It beat sites like Linked In to their own idea probably just from the sheer size of their userbase.
I personally enjoy facebook. I hate the phone, I’m always on a computer, and I have friends all over the place. It lets me stay "close" to friends, and lets others do the same with me. The problem that myspace ran into was ads, poor UI, and corporate saturation. I’m not sure facebook will meet the same demise, but it’s coming close. businesses are realizing the market(ing) opportunities that facebook possesses, and they want to tap it like a keg. They want new applications written and added to the functionality of facebook, just like how every company wanted a web URL back in the 90s. "You’re not cool unless you have a .com" Now you’re missing out until you have facebook. Take a look at Papa John’s new marketing strategy of offering a free pizza if you become their friend on facebook. College kids will eat that up, literally.
So instead of getting the sunday coupons in the mail, we’ll get group invitations on facebook. At least it’s paperless, right?
Money Money Money Money – – – – Muh nay! |
So many new announcements going on in Pittsburgh! We just have to find out how we’re going to pay for it all.
The New Granada theatre nears it’s financing goal of $1.1M. It’s a block from my house and it is such a sad thing to see it falling apart. If they can get the rest of that money, it would be amazing. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08317/927187-53.stm
The David Lawrence Convention center just released plans for an $8.5 M project to connect the bike trails from point state park (affectionately known as pennisula park). They just don’t know where the money is coming from yet… http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08325/929364-53.stm
The Majestic Star Casino will officially be called the Rivers Casino after Don Barden lost the license and Neil Bluhm took over. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08325/929355-53.stm