January 2014

Archive

Tony Rice

He hasn’t really been able to talk well or sing for 19 years, but this past September at the IMBA awards he stunned everyone with something he’s been “working on”. What a hero.

It’s Raining

“I’m going to wash my car.” “But it’s raining!” I’m sure I’ve bore witness to hundreds of versions of that conversation in my lifetime. It’s this weird generic response that everyone seems to intuitively understand, tying together car washing and raining. I’ve never quite understood though. I think it means one of two things. Why […]

Netflix

Interesting: Netflix’s big problem, it seems to me, is that it can’t afford the content that its subscribers most want to watch. It could try to buy streaming rights to every major Hollywood blockbuster in history β€” but doing so would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and could never be recouped with $7.99 monthly […]

Disappointed

This basic email transaction is common for me recently: Email: Hey Chris, are you interested in doing this thing? It’s a fairly major request that will take lots of your time. Me: That thing sounds awesome, but I’m afraid I’m just too overcommitted already to add anything new. Email: We’re very disappointed. It was already […]