July 10th, 2008
Problem: You’re a hostile state and have decided to demonstrate your might by firing off some missiles and photographing the provocative event for the world to see, but in the big moment, only three of your four missiles take off. How embarrassing!
Solution: Hey, you can just photoshop the picture and nobody will be the wiser!
Problem: While you may be a pro at enriching uranium, your photoshop skills totally suck. Who’s got yellowcake on their face now?!
Read all about it at the Lede.
July 1st, 2008
We went to a horse show in Westport over the weekend and I took pictures!
May 23rd, 2008
Apparently there is a word in Danish (and other Nordic languages) — arbejdsglæde — that translates to happiness at work. In Japan they have a word — Karoshi — which translates to death from overwork. Just thought this was interesting… (via Chief Happiness Officer)
May 19th, 2008
Did you know that John McCain is old? This new blog points out just how old he is by listing various things that are younger than the Arizona Senator. The list includes Penicillin, Telephone Area Codes, Nylon and Alaska.
May 8th, 2008
This photo, from Harvard’s ‘Baby Lab’, had to be posted. You can make up your own caption…
May 8th, 2008
Apparently it’s pretty easy to enter yourself in the NBA draft, as Zachary Feinstein recently discovered.
“The short story is that I, Zachary Feinstein, have declared for the 2008 NBA Draft. As a 5′8″ 130 pound Caucasian, I am the perfect candidate for professional basketball.”
Zach has put together a scouting report for himself, obviously to assist NBA general managers who may be unfamiliar with his game. Under strengths he lists Decision Making, Strong Work Ethic and High Basketball IQ. Under weaknesses he includes Lacks Actual Basketball Skills, Ability, and Experience.
Read more about how you can enter yourself in the NBA Draft.
May 2nd, 2008
I took this photograph of my car the other day. I think it’s a particularly nice photo of my car, actually. Perhaps now, when people ask me what kind of car I have, I’ll show them this nice photo of my car. I think that’s a great idea.
April 10th, 2008
GreenStrat is now two months old, and so it’s time to revisit the progress that was made over the month of March. First the numbers:
GreenStrat’s visitor numbers were down slightly from February. The site averaged about 19 visits and 59 page views per day (down from 22 and 73 a month ago). That works out to 3.08 page views per visit, down from 3.28 last month. On a positive note, visitors still spent the same amount of time visiting the site, at just over 4 minutes per visit. Additionally, ad revenue more than tripled from a month ago. I nearly earned enough in March to buy a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee (though a cup from Starbucks is still a ways away). There are now 37 pages of content on the site, though I only added one song during the month.
During March I focused most of my time spent with GreenStrat on redeveloping the site design. GreenStrat got an entirely new look focused on making the site cleaner, repositioning valuable content, and making better use of ads. I think the numbers from March reflected this work: with less new content being added during the month, visits dropped slightly. However, the redesign paid immediate dividends in increased click-throughs on ads. I’m also really excited about the new design and think that it makes GreenStrat a significantly better site.
Another reason for the slowdown in content is that I began planning for my wedding this month. On my list of life’s priorities, my wedding now ranks slightly higher than GreenStrat. But work will continue slowly and steadily on the site, and I’ll revisit again next month to see how things are going. Until then, go check out GreenStrat!
April 1st, 2008
The problem with predicting the end of the world is that you look really stupid when it doesn’t happen, as illustrated in this article from the New York Times, which is paraphrased in brief below:
Fourteen members of a Russian doomsday cult on Tuesday abandoned the remote underground bunker where they had been hiding for nearly half a year awaiting the end of the world.
They said that God had given them a signal to leave,” said Oleg Melnichenko, deputy governor of the Penza region where cult members have been holed up since October. “All are in good health, considering they have spent half a year underground,” said Melnichenko.
The sect is an ultra-devout splinter group of the Russian Orthodox church. They reject processed food and say bar codes on products are the work of Satan.
Cult members had refused to come out of their bunker before the apocalypse, which their leader Pavel Kuznetsov — now undergoing psychiatric treatment — predicted would happen in April or May this year. Kuznetsov did not join his followers in the bunker, saying God had different tasks for him.
