I am going to start reading Atlas Shrugged again tonight. I read it every year and haven’t done it this year with the new job and all. Plus- I think I could use the encouragement I always derive from that experience.
My friends at CanDo have some pages on their site that you should check out: Money and Gold.
If only one good thing comes out of this Palin debacle I’m happy that it was a renewed chance to see Tina Fey on SNL.
See here for the SNL VP debate skit.
I don’t talk about work often in the blog… it isn’t a work blog (which is obvious if you look at all the posts about MTV shows) but there are a couple fun things coming out of Current these days and here is the first:
We’ve got an interesting project going on this Friday where you can disuss the debates on twitter by adding #current to your tweet and your comment may end up on the Current broadcast. For more information and details on how to participate, check out http://current.com/debate
My favorite thing to do is to spend time with people I love.
I was going through a bunch of pictures on my iPhone (one of the many ways I distract myself from my hour commute in the morning) and I was pretty pumped to come across this pic. It was taken during our wedding weekend up in Portsmouth, NH and while I was freaking out on the inside about the big life event about to happen I couldn’t help but enjoy this moment. It is funny to realize that Corinne was the only person who knew everyone else in the picture before this meal. (This was pre-Facebook where you social networks didn’t cross as readily.)
I only have a couple things I would have wished to be different (a few of my friends living in CA couldn’t make it, Jen and Jason would arrive a few minutes after this and just missed being in it, Paul, Jen, Amelia, Kitty and a few others hadn’t arrived yet) but that is like a 1st world billionaire wishing he had change kinda problem.
The next day we were able to have the picture that got a lot closer to my perfect picture requirements.
(I’ll try to remember to replace these images with the higher quality versions later… not the versions that were optimized for the iPhone.)
Anyway, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped give me these memories but especially Alice who pulled it all together.
I twittered this earlier in the week and got a decent response so I’ll add it to the blog for posterity, for the folks who don’t follow me on twitter (I hear there are some), and so I can use more than 140 characters. 
I want my work to be fun and for my fun to never be work.
While it may sound short and simple and perhaps a bit random, if you know me then you know this is a pretty good assessment of how I try to live. My favorite thing is spending time with amazing people. Because this is what interests me I try to pick jobs that put me in groups of smart people trying to do good things and then I try to get as much enjoyment as I can from the situations that follow.
So… It has been a pretty funny week and I plan to write a longer post over the weekend about all the good stuff that happened. I’ll just drop this as a preview.
Was at dinner last night and was learning about a new friend when we finally hit the intersection of “Where did you go to undergrad?” and “Holy crap, you’re that much younger than me?!?” when I realized we had a friend in common from his undergrad and my FairMarket family. She is on my favorite people list (oh yes, there is a list) and I don’t think they know know each other but that we’re sitting in San Jose drinking wine without any sense of previous commonality and all of a sudden we have a point in our unique pasts that crosses is pretty interesting to me.
I’m not going to write much text now but I’ll write up the dinner summary soon.
While funny it does make me sad. See The Daily Show’s take on George Bush’s take on Russia invading Georgia (the country)
PS- why does my hosting provide have a blog config that still prevents me from using embeds? This + my inability to influence NS and layouts may actually drive me away from this hosting provider.
I was going to write a longer post about this commercial I just saw for this 9/11 commemorative but a quick Google and here is a nice summary. I guess I’m just curious how things like this are legal to market the way they do. If you have to advertise that you’re “currency” isn’t associated with the mint or the government then maybe you’re crossing a line.
A couple things I do want to point out:
The BBB doesn’t have any confirmed details on National Collector’s Mint, the company selling the commemorative, but you can read what they do have in this BBB report.
I feel like asking Adam Nash to give me his opinion on this stuff… I bet he either would have a ton to say or that he would just say, “Don’t be stupid” and leave it at that.