Bill Simmons, on his new web site Grantland:
Fact: If Miami blows this Finals after choking away Games 2 and 4, after everything that happened since The Decision and The Gratuitous Party One Night After The Decision, the Internet might explode. I’m not kidding. You’re going to log on the next morning and there will just be a picture of a mushroom cloud.
I’d like to see that…
Michael Wilbon on LeBron’s performance in the finals and Stevenson’s comments:
DeShawn Stevenson, a player with zero pedigree and no filter, actually said yesterday that he thought LeBron “checked out” in the fourth quarter. Seriously, if Stevenson said that about Michael Jordan 15 years ago Jordan would put 50 on him and do it in such a way that embarrassed everybody ever named Stevenson, back to Adlai.
I agree. Let’s see if LeBron comes out crazy aggressive tonight…
I haven’t tasted any of their beers, but this quote
We found that turning up at the bank wearing a suit whilst pointing at a series of useless numbers on a spreadsheet is the best way to get a business loan.
made me laugh. Maybe it was the use of the word “whilst”…
The oddest thing happened the other day. For reasons that are still not explained, I stopped receiving instant messages from one of my partners, Tim. I could IM him and he would get it, but his responses simply didn’t come through. It happened with one other colleague, but no one else. It was totally bizarre.
It made me totally realize how dependent tech geeks are on IM. Tim and I regularly have conversations via IM. Email would be too clunky. Of course we could actually pick up the phone, but being tech geeks we hate that.
I regularly use the phase, “I was talking to Tim about that”, when in fact we did not talk at all, we simply IM’d. It is truly the optimal medium for developers.
Thankfully our IM started working again as mysteriously as it stopped. God forbid I actually talk on the phone…
So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, because I have publicly said those words were inaccurate and unfortunate.
– Newt Gingrich
That is truly high praise, but c’mon, this stuff is gold…
Google has announced it will begin splitting data transmitted via the Real 4G protocol into four “flavors”—Smart, Dumb, Retarded, and Banana-Strawberry Blast.
The whole thing is hilarious…
This was the scene I missed this morning, right outside my office as hundreds of Brits gathered under the Manhattan Bridge to watch the royal wedding.
Sleep was better…
While I do actually know someone who is invited to the Royal Wedding (he actually dated the bride), strangely my invitation was apparently lost in the mail.
But no worries, there is an outdoor public viewing under the archway under the Manhattan Bridge about 100 feet from my office. It’s at 5:30, so I’ll definitely be there.
Wait, 5:30 AM? Seriously? Oh, never mind…
One of the things I’ve always liked about Amazon as a company is their disregard for Wall Street. Their approach has always been, “we’re building a company for the long term and we don’t care about your quarterly estimates”.
Yesterday Amazon announced financials, and they had a big miss from the Wall Street perspective. See their revenues were $360 million more than expected. Yeah, that’s got to be bad.
But seriously, their operating income was $43 million below expected and earnings per share $0.17 below expected (that sounds small but is a big miss). Apparently, among other things, Amazon hired a few thousand extra people. So Wall Street initially freaked out.
Jeff Bezos, their CEO, issued a long commentary. If every CEO on the planet could speak this well about technology we’d be in good shape.
There was one line that everyone should etch into their brains. And ask how any technology company they work with is applying it:
Invention is in our DNA and technology is the fundamental tool we wield to evolve and improve every aspect of the experience we provide our customers
Amen.
His full text is here.
And by the way, the next day Amazon stock was up 14%.
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