As promised, this will be my last post to this blog. It was basically just for fun and I never really expected it to get serious, but it was fun learning about how difficult these things are. I have a new respect for people that keep up blogs on a daily/weekly basis with good content.
I will be moving on to focus more on some of my personal hobbies more, along with a new cool web project.
Don’t worry, if you read this blog, you’ll hear about the new site we’re working on when it’s ready in the next week or two.
I didn’t realize how much work you’d have to put into a successful blog
Writing is kind of fun, even though I’m not the greatest (or even that good)
In the next 2 weeks, I will have two exciting announcements so huge, this blog will be left in the dust. Instanttaylor will still exist all over the internet, just not here.
Keep an eye out for the happenenings. If you read this blog, you know me pretty well so you’ll probably hear about them pretty fast through twitter, facebook… blah blah blah.
I’ve seen tons of graphs and articles talking about Twitter and how amazing it is, and how it’s growing and growing recently. Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter. It definitely has it’s place and time. Below, however, is a graph that I think all of us know too well.
Let me explain this graph a little. The red line cooresponds to the right y-axis. This is the amount of months I was dating a girl in relation to the timeline below. The blue line cooresponds to the left y-axis and is my weight during the months on the x-axis.
Conclusions:
Girls make you fat and lazy
The best diet not only includes exercising and eating right, but also, breaking up with your current girlfriend, no matter how good it’s going. This is why they don’t let people on The Biggest Loser talk to their family members at home.
I seriously need to get out more. You’ll notice that many of those months are at a pathetic “0″. It’s ok though. Those were “me” months. I needed to get that weight down, to fix the cycle. Thanks, Dr. Phil.
Once you date for >1 month, it’s not a linear relationship to get your weight back down. It’s more like a boulder going down a mountain. It’s only going to stop when it slams into a ski resort.
Deep analysis:
Actually, what this says is I get lazy when I get into relationships. That’s no way to live. For god sake, if you’re in a relationship, work out. You’ll feel better and look better. And when that divorce finally rolls around, you’ll be ready to hit the dating scene again, ripped and sexy.
Wow. I’m terrible at blogging. I could blame the ADD, but I’m going to blame the fact that I have a few cool projects in the works that will eventually be taking up a ton of my time. I think all 5 of you are going to really enjoy them when they’re ready.
I’ve also started a lifelong dream of learning piano from a fantastic teacher right down the road. I haven’t decided what I will do to produce some kind of content from this project, but there are ideas brewing.
I give real bloggers credit. It’s hard work to write something good every day/week/random frame of time. See you soon.
This song was way ahead of it’s time when we put it out. You can tell by the dial up modem tone at the beginning of the song. We wrote this when DRM was becoming a big issue and Metallica was trying to destroy Napster.
You can see, unfortunately, we predicted correctly in our song.
This is off of the “Wit Happens” album. Enjoy!
Just click the arrow and watch the magic
or download to put on your mp3 player of choice!
Recently at work, I’ve started doing weekly calls with the people I manage. These calls are very simple, and can never be longer than 10 minutes. There are a few important points with these calls:
They are mandatory and higher priority than everything in a person’s professional day and must never be missed.
If some emergency comes up, the call must be reschedule no later than 24 hours later
The questions of the call are pretty much “Did you meet your 3 objectives last week.” To which the answers are Yes/No.
The final question is “What are your 3 core objectives for this week?”
These calls allow people to really focus on what’s important to them on a weekly basis and get help from me as needed.
President-elect Obama is doing something similar to this with his weekly address (On YouTube, iTunes, Change.gov and many other outlets). I hope this continues throughout his presidency and morphs into a weekly “Priority Call” with America. Obama would tell us if he met his three core objectives from last week, and what his new ones were. If he needed help from us to say, call our Congressman/woman to get something passed/supported, he could simply ask.
I’m excited to have more transparency and communication with our new President and hope that he embraces as many technologies as possible to involve American’s in their government.
Because I’m infinitely lazy, and I produced all of the wonderful things that will come out of my life when I was 18-22, here’s another song from my old comedy band, Lord of the Pants.
In this song, we explain the wonderful mystery known as the Dewey Decimal System, enjoy lovelys.
Just click the arrow and watch the magic
or download to put on your mp3 player of choice!
I just wanted to post something short about something that I should’ve been doing for a long time. Taking naps. More and more in life, I find myself with less energy when I come home from work. This kills any type of motivation that I have to do the things that I want to in my spare time.
Recently, I’ve started taking 20 minute naps when I arrive home from work and wow. It’s amazing how just closing your eyes and laying down for 20 minutes can recharge your batteries for the rest of the night. It’s giving me the energy to do something pretty cool, which I’ll tell everyone about in a new blog post soon enough.
So, when you’re done reading this, if you’re a little tired, go set a timer for 20-30 min and take a quick nap. You’ll thank me when you wake up.
Hey all,
Yep, I bought an iPhone 3G and let me tell you something. It rocks. I don’t care that it’s buggy, it crashes, and sometimes, at night, I feel it standing over me with a knife… I love you iPhone 3G. I don’t really have to think anymore because it does all of my thinking for me. For example:
Where’s the closest dry cleaners!? Google Maps integration to the rescue!
Holy jesus, what day is it? Calendar tells me.
I can’t decide on a place to eat, and I don’t even want to pick from a list: Urbanspoon: Press a button, and a random restaurant in your area is chosen.
I’m standing outside and wondering what the weather is like: A quick look to the Weather app validates what I’m feeling and seeing in REAL TIME… it’s sunny and hot.
What’s that alluring music I hear in the elevator? SHAZAM! An app that listens to what you’re hearing, and tells you what song it is. Seriously, it’s amazing.
Boy, this trip to the airport men’s room is boring: GAMES! All kinds of games for your sitting pleasure. (No, I didn’t forget an ‘h’ in that sentence you sick ass)
But, my FAVORITE app so far is an app that, sadly, I cannot have. See below:
Yep. The app is the MAXIMUM amount of money any app can be in the iTunes store. “What does it do?” you’re asking. It must do all of those wonderful things that you described above in ONE APPLICATION!
NO! SHUT UP!
It’s a beautiful floating red jewel that you can walk around with to show people that, in fact, you are rich. If I had it, I would wear it on a lanyard all of the time.
I love you app store.
Below is the review I left on the iTunes store.
5 STARS
I would love to have the glowing red jewby (jewel + ruby) on my iPhone, but alas, I am not rich. I’ll tell you what though, I’m going to work extra jobs and sell personal belongings to purchase this app.
And let’s all be clear on something, all of you people giving this bad reviews… you’re just pissed that you didn’t think of this first.
