I realized when I was finishing up my taxes last week that TurboTax is basically boiled down complicated tax forms into a text adventure. They ask you hundreds of questions, you fill in some numbers, and you’re done.
I’ve been using TurboTax online for six years now and I typically work on my taxes in [...]
Today I noticed that I quit using an email client and I probably won’t be going back any time soon. I spent the past week using Gmail directly in a web browser instead of my Apple Mail client, because I’ve moved to a desktop iMac and I was traveling with my old laptop. Gmail doesn’t [...]
I like Malcolm Gladwell. A lot. But I had no idea he felt the same way I do about Vegas. From the ESPN interview:
Simmons: Second question: Can you explain in one paragraph why you’re against Vegas?
Gladwell: Where to start? You get there. You can’t get a cab. Last time I waited 30 minutes in line [...]
Two days into the Olympics and I can barely stand NBC’s entertainment-as-news style of reporting. NBC seems to approach the games like it’s a snapshot of Hollywood, elevating a few people to superstar status and covering their every move (Kwan, Bode Miller, etc). It quickly reaches a saturation point while at the same time piling [...]
I hate to sound cynical, because it is a cool app but….
2000: Make a really kickass powerpoint deck, get the Stevester down in marketing to shop it along Sand Hill Rd, make $15 million in the first seed round before you reach the end of the street.
2006: Create an ajaxy alpha app, sell to [...]
It’s been interesting to watch the “four things” meme spread. It took several days between the first time I saw it and the time someone actually threw me into it, and it sort of came from LiveJournal and seemed to move from less trafficked blogs to more trafficked ones.
Anyway, I looked over the stuff and [...]
I’ve been thinking about this and this which was prompted by this, and hearing that modern hiphop diss songs date back to vikings and even inuit people is really amazing. I love the idea of an Inuit diss song. I couldn’t get this out of my head, so forgive the following, which flowed forth a [...]
My year in cities:
Las Vegas, NV
San Francisco, CA*
Portland, OR*
San Diego, CA
Austin, TX
New York, NY
Toronto, ON
Not as many as most years, due to the baby putting a serious dent in my travel time, but at least one new place in another country got added.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed that I’m increasingly coming back around to old cliches and sayings — stuff grandparents and parents and parents of friends’ would tell me back when I was 15 and I never believed a word of it. Some of it is profound, life-changing stuff that I ignored all those years [...]
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