I just had the pleasure of running into Adam on my way to work this morning. He was looking quite dapper and I was looking like I just crawled out of my dorm room. I enjoy the casual work place, but sometimes I wish I was forced to reconsider my wardrobe.
Regardless, it reminded me that this city isn’t so big after all.
Last year at this time I basically thought I was going to die. (cue overdramatic music) I’m not a paranoid hypochondriac nor am I one to visit doctors (ever) but I had basically diagnosed myself with some long term funk. Long story short, it included some of the worst pain I’ve ever felt and no one could tell me what was wrong with me. (Where is House when you need him?)
Many blood tests and a few steroids later here I am. I told myself after it was over that I was going to start eating well, getting in shape, etc. and I’m trying to kick start that again. Hopefully I can find the self discipline to do it.
Here’s to another day. (I don’t ask for much.) Turns out me not visiting a doctor was the problem and how the whole thing started in the first place.
Everyone take the next 4-5 minutes and listen to some Skynyrd. It made me feel much better and quite relaxed on my commute home and I hope it does the same for you.
I’ll even give you 15 minutes for the live version of Free Bird.
(usually these type of things mean it’s really time for me to take a trip home…)
“Lord I can’t make any changes, all I can do is write ‘em in a song.”
Don’t judge me.Wikipedia was just updated.
On August 19, 2008, it was announced on the TMZ website and elsewhere that Moore died of complications from his injuries in the ATV accident.
(Saxophonist for Dave Matthews)
Muxtape too expensive to run?
A tipster tells us Muxtape investor Jakob Lodwick has been heard to complain that the site’s hosting bill alone amounts to $30,000 per day. That figure seems high — could our tipster have misheard Lodwick saying the bill is $30,000 a month? After Muxtape’s first day, Ouellete posted the site’s stats, reporting 8,685 users uploading and playing 19,731 songs over 35,000 visits cost Muxtape $118.17 with Amazon’s S3 online-storage service. Extrapolate that first day over a month, at Amazon’s standard rates, and you’ve got a $3,545 hosting bill. Compete.com confirms that Muxtape’s user base has grown at least tenfold since then, making a $30,000/mo. hosting bill not just plausible, but likely.
The bill is also far more than Lodwick or Ouellette seem to have expected. In an accidentally published investment term sheet, Ouellette estimated three months of hosting would cost $18,000. That’s about $72,000 off the mark, enough to eat through Lodwick’s $95,000 investment and shut down the site, angry letters from the RIAA or no.
via Valleywag
I find it really hard to believe that people thought this was actually going to work. There are sites backed by much more money than this that can’t even stay afloat. Pandora is contemplating shutting down and they have millions. People can fight the grass roots campaign forever and hate RIAA all they want, but until laws are changed I think it’s going to be a hard business model to crack. Copyright Board proceedings have taken place over the last year and hopefully by October there will be rate in place for streaming royalties to songwriters and music publishers (not RIAA). This won’t be negotiable and is protected by law. We all knew this day was coming. Even if they do cut a deal with the RIAA, royalties will still need to be paid.
Discuss.
- totally awesome and confidently badass?
- or, sad and pathetic.
Confidently pathetic? (do it anyway)
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to do when you grow up?
10. Who/ what do you love most in life?
11. Choose one word that describes you?
12. What is your Flickr name?
via lfarm and others
I watched my fair share of daytime soaps in college and never really thought that much craziness could happen in real life. Today I realized that it can and will happen, possibly minus the murder but that has yet to be ruled out completely.
Thank you all for making my life seem ridiculously normal.
It does have me thinking about disclosure and the question that gets thrown around here so often of “How much is too much?” It seems that most of us have boundaries that we won’t cross when it comes to putting out personal information about ourselves and our ‘so-called’ loved ones, yet other people have no problem in laying it all out there. In a way, I admire it. I’ve said many times that I usually write better when I know my audience doesn’t know who I am, but I don’t have that option anymore nor do I want it. The reason my name is on this page is to keep myself from crossing the line of ‘too much’. I don’t feel like I’m hiding anything from anyone, but just respecting myself and my friends. No one should have a fear that they are going to end up the topic of a random blog post just by hanging out with me, dating me, etc.
I think this whole social experiment is fascinating and I feel fortunate to be a part of it in the small way that I am, but I’m going to leave the intense story lines to the rest of you.
Nick, email me. I’ll totally sacrifice all of this for a book deal.
I left my iPhone at home today.
Eve? Eeeeve?