Written on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 with
OK, to be completely honest, any rioting that has to do with a sporting event is just plain ridiculous. As is plainly obvious, I’m a huge Habs fan, and was totally Tom Cruising (jumping off the couch) during their 5-0 win against the Bruins on Monday. But I was somehow able to restrain myself from tipping over my plasma and throwing something through my front window. It’s an embarrassment to Montrealers, Canadians, the Habs team, and its fans to have to read/watch stories like these (echoed here). For shame.
Written on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 with
Saw an article on TechCrunch this morning regarding Google’s philosophy of “not being evil” which included:
This is most likely not a precursor to an official move away from the motto. I imagine it’s little more than a venting of a frustration that Google continues to be held to a promise made six years ago, when they were under significantly less scrutiny than they are today. Google can’t ditch the motto (the press would eat that up), and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to live up to it. What can they do? Not much.
I don’t think I agree with Mike on this. In fact, not “being” evil is fairly easy, as there really are few companies who “are” evil. There are few people who are evil. Being evil is a fairly tough endeavor. Doing evil, on the other hand, is quite a different story, and while this might be a matter of semantics, I believe it’s a very important difference.
Plenty of good people do plenty of evil. They do it fairly frequently in fact. It’s extremely challenging to not do any evil in one’s life, whether it’s lying, cheating, taking advantage of others, etc. These are all evil things, even if at varying degrees.
I’d love to see a company step up to not DO any evil. Now that would be a noble challenge.
Written on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 with
It’s 2002. Game 6. Montreal leads the series 3-2. It’s 6:30pm on the West Coast and I begin watching my TiVo’d game, timeshifted by about 2.5 hours. About 15 minutes later, my phone rings, “CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?” exclaims the excited relative.
That one was understandable.
It’s 2008. There should be no such calls. It might be harder to celebrate (especially bicoastally), but if you know someone is (1) a huge fan and (2) has a DVR and (3) isn’t always able to watch games live and in real-time, just don’t call. Wait it out. There’s plenty of time to yell and reminisce.
Game 1 is in the bag. 15 more for 25.
Written on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 with
Holy cow!
Go Habs Go!
Written on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 with
My wife and I don’t get food delivered all that often, as we prefer to cook. Partly because we enjoy cooking, partly because we enjoy the taste, party because of the healthiness of knowing what is in our food, and partly for the ecological/sustainability issues around buying local, etc. BUT, when we do get something delivered, we tend to sift through our pile of menus, often reordering (accidentally) from places we don’t like.
Until the other night, when I found grubhub, a site that h
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WordPress killed my original draft and I just don’t have the energy to rewrite it. So… I like GrubHub. The End.
