When worlds collide..

Found this video of my old grad school buddy, Mark Marino. We were in the English Dept at Notre Dame together back in the day.
Mark has gone on to become a professor at (the otherwise much hated) University of Southern California.. from what I've seen of his work, he's been doing some interesting research into the nature of narrative and exploring how an internet-enabled world is affecting how we think about stories.



But this presentation kind of turned my head. Perhaps if he's reading this, Mark can comment on his scholarly trajectory here... source code as literature.. interesting, but, speaking as a software development guy and former literary poseur, I have to ask..
can you guys be serious?

"Friends you know.. or pretend to know.."

...only you me and Michael Arrington will understand this..
Yes, we have beer cozies.

Best. Ad. Ever.

Dudes...

Good stuff.

Lost Awesomeness..

"Mr. Friendly throws like a girl..."

Extraordinary, Revolutionary, and Better...

Nicely done by Mahalo Daily

The SleepyDad Anthem

A sublime elicitation of the state of being a SleepyDad...

"If I were you, I'd just buy some bigger shirts.."

I'm not great Peyton fan, but the man has comic timing... and he is the face of the NFL, no doubt about it.

We are all Rockstars...

Rack him!

Frank Caliendo appeared on Mike and Mike this morning and he had me crying I was laughing so hard as I was driving Aidan to school this morning.. bless ESPN for putting this video up on their site today..


Love the Jim Rome impression... they don't keep it in this clip, but as he was signing off, Caliendo went back into his Rome voice and said "That was a good job by you, better job by me.. Rack me!" Priceless.

Follow me to freedom!

While we're on the topic of favorite commercials..

"I smell an astronaut!"

Hey Manundso.. don't ask me why, but when I saw this, I thought of you...

Inbox Zero

Great presentation by Merlin Mann at Google on how to manage high volume email.
Several lessons for me in there..




"Don't let your Blackberry turn into exploding cats."