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Halloween coffee shop warning

Action Hero morph

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TK421: Pay Attention. This is how you drink beer

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GWS: Making Halloween fun again

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Steak is sexy

"It’s not hard to understand steak’s role in sexy meals. Steak is the visceral, naughty taste equivalent to a good, hard fuck."

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Parking inflation for world series

Dear Rangers Fans. Welcome to SF. Have a nice day

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No-SQL Joke

I'm at a tech meetup in Silicon Valley tonight. Topic was "No-SQL" with a panel of 10 people. Invariably, a geeky joke was crowd-sourced:

Person 1: "So we're seeing a shift from MySQL and traditional RDBMS systems to NO-SQL"

Person 2: "Yes"

Person 1: "But what came before we had SQL?"

Person 2:" No-SQL"

Crowd erupted into laughter. I laughed 3 minutes later when I finally got the joke

A NO SQL evening in Palo Alto. The romance never stops

Psyched to see Andy@basho here!

Joyent at PayPal conference

Listening to Robert Scoble on FAILCON privacy panel. Thinking of giving him a Roman name like "Maximum Interruptus"

Apparently there are 2 Nima's here at FAILCON. This in and of itself is actually a huge WIN. The Nima singularity is at hand!

Glad to see Joyent partner Codesion sponsoring at FAILCON today

I'm at FAILCON in SF. If you love me, come say hi.

The Business Model canvas

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Great way to think quickly about your business. Reference at www.steveblank.com

I guess I picked the wrong day to stop eating really yummy but big meals

Echo (Arnold + Meg)

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Hilarious.

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Stanford snuggie!

Stanford Football - a great way to spend a Saturday

Koningshoeven

Quite possibly the best beer I have ever had

DOGGY PARKOUR

 

Dear Starbucks. First your coffee! And now you lock your bathrooms?

cats + Bullitt = awesomeness on the internet tubes

The new video from Holy Fuck "Red Lights"

 

I wish someone would make a full movie like this...Im super seious.

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Kids....

From a parent in my old daycare:

Me: This pillow's lumpy.

Stormy: In the time of the dinosaurs, they didn't have pillows; you had to use a duck or a cat.

Me: I choose duck

@JacksonWest is in the house and taken over the asylum better known as www.joyeur.com.

I haven't been this excited about blogging since Ben Trott gave me my own TypePad blog (yes this very one) and showed me how to syndicate out to Twitter and Facebook. 

Go Jackson Go!

hmmn... great lunch with @royako then rush back to office so I could help take a picture of @izs because we needed a "real coder" and not "Nima"

Don't fake it.

Don’t Fake It

Early in Mule’s existence, I learned an incredible lesson from a client. He cancelled an hour before we were to give a presentation, because a job they’d been preparing for one of their clients wasn’t up to his standard of quality.

Be ready to impress. If you aren’t ready, postpone until you are.

Yes, rescheduling is a pain in the ass. But it can be handled properly and is much easier to recover from than walking into a presentation with anything less than quality. Could you wing it? Possibly once or twice, maybe more even. Every good designer should be a little Don Draper in the boardroom. But your clients aren’t paying you to wing it. Treat them with more respect than that.

So what do you tell them? Tell them the truth. “I need to postpone this presentation because the work’s not at the level I’d like it to be and I don’t want to waste your time.” Then buy your project manager a really big fucking cookie. In the end, it’s easier to recover from rescheduling a presentation than from bombing. If you have the right sort of client, you may even gain more of their respect. You know…the first time, which is best if it’s the only time

via weblog.muledesign.com

If you are good at what you do, don't do it for free

Man, that stuff took time. A lot of time actually. And a tremendous amount of effort, as well as expertise. Expertise that came from a combination of training, which I had to pay tuition for, and experience. I’m good at this because I’ve done it a lot. Sure, there’s some natural talent there, but by and large I’ve gotten good at my job the same way every other worker has. By experience, by focused effort and by learning from my mistakes.

Luckily I’ve been able to earn a modest living plying my trade by exchanging my efforts to clients for fair value.

So as much as I’d like to just show you the greatest logo I’ve ever made for anyone (…and trust me, if Paul Rand himself saw it, he would realize he was merely the Pippen to my Jordan.) I’d like to be properly compensated for it. Because I put a lot of time and effort into it. And it’s how I earn my living.

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What my EE class in college felt like

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