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For mobilephone users traveling abroad: Global GSM Coverage Map.
IM Convo
KevinC: What are you doing this weekend?Me: Going to Nicaragua. KevinC: Is that in the Hamptons? Nicaragua
 Tomorrow I am leaving for Managua via San Jose, Costa Rica. My friend Paul will be waiting at the airport with an old car he rented, and we'll drive to San Juan del Sur to meet a group of surfers and photographers. From there, we will continue down the Pacific coast to an unnamed beach to spend six days. For the group, this is a surfing trip. For me, because I have never surfed, the obvious purpose is the photographic opportunity (although, I intend to get surfing lessons from the pros, as well). Paul and I are camping on the beach, outside the group's bungalow. To make room for camera equipment, I'm packing light and taking only a couple of tshirts, shorts and a hoodie amongst other trinkets of survival like iodine, bandaids, deet, and a flashlight. I have never been south of Miami and know only a few words of Spanish; The cultural experience will be unprecedented. I am wholly prepared to be a respectful and quietly observing gringo; to eat lots of rice, beans and corn totillas; and to drink plenty of Tona, a Nicaraguan beer, which I hear is the best in Central America. Otherwise, I'll be taking plenty of pictures, and will be sure to share them when I get back on the 3rd. PS. Experienced advice is appreciated. Student's Start-Up Draws Attention and $13 Million
TheFaceBook in the NY Times.
WTF? Indiana senator Evan Bayh has a flickr account and lists me as a contact?
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He must not realize my ultimate plans to stage a coup and remove him, the governor and the legislature from leadership. Maybe he's keeping enemies close? Evan, some advice: Keep pictures like this far from the public domain. via Nancy.
Amir's brother proposes!
No Surprise: Friendster is Failing!
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German Kai is in town visiting.
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I am back in New York.
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Over the weekend, in Fort Wayne, I celebrated and/or observed two coming-of-age pageants with my sister Taylor. 1. She turned 16, despite my protests with Old Father Time and Mother Nature. I wrote formal letters to both, asking them kindly, but firmly, to reconsider her annual increase of age and instead have her ratcheted back one to 14. I received no reply. 2. As a sophomore, she attended her first Prom. She was asked by a junior named "Nick". While waiting for her date to arrive, I told her that I would like to preemptively cut off his arms before the dance to prevent any misbehavior. She became upset by the idea and pleaded with me not to do anything like that. So, I didn't cut off his arms. Needless to say, both events were hard for me! I have only begun to realize how much I regret being away from home while she and my younger brother grow up. These emotions underscore my own confused feelings of getting older and accepting some loss of innocence and irresponsibility. Pensiveness aside, I had a fun weekend. My shoulders and neck are burnt from playing baseball with my brother Noel on Saturday. It was unusually hot -- so much so that he continuously urged me hit every pitch into the pond so that he would have a reason to dive in, cool off and take a break. It excited me to see him walk around all weekend (and even dive for baseballs!) without his crutches. His walking is improving so well. My mom made two killer homecooked meals, complete with corn on the cobb and rhubarb pie -- making me ever so aware of what I just can't get at restaurants in New York. And my dad sent me off with a dozen vinyl records from his collection, which he recently refound in the attic -- I'm looking forward to listening to the Tommy James and the Led Zeppelin albums most. The weekend outfitted me well. I am refreshed, as though I just swabbed myself down with one of those 'clean wipes' they give you when you order chicken wings -- which afterwards make you smell lemony and feel a bit tingly too. Labels: Fort Wayne
I'm in Fort Wayne today.
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Labels: Fort Wayne My Year in Tags.
 I left college one year ago today, and since have moved to San Diego and finally to New York where I've been for 10 months. So much has changed! My friend Kara Canal recently posted a picture of her Flickr Tag Cloud with the comment, "Flickr is a Barometer." This caused me to consider how incredibly true this might be! I tend to photograph both the interesting and mundane minutia in my life, and my tag cloud reflects nicely. It's really fun to look at. Let's make a list. Leave a comment with the top 5 tags from your Flickr Cloud. Be sure to include a link to your full cloud, as well. Spinto Band's "Nice and Nicely Done" to be released
Whoa! Amazon is accepting pre-orders for the first label release of Spinto Band's Nice and Nicely Done. via Jeff.
No Data party this Saturday, in our building. Remember to RSVP.
Patrick put 320 by 240 online today. It represents his collection of unique music videos, as he finds them.
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Love the domain.
On the Beach With Dave Chappelle:
The first thing Chappelle wants is to dispel rumors—that he's got a drug problem ... The picture he paints—and it seems a fairly honest and frank assessment— is of someone struggling to come to terms with a new position and power who's still figuring out how to come to grips with how people around him are reacting to the $50 million deal he signed last year with Comedy Central. Stock Flop
Nick learns a hard lesson and accounts it well.
The work week:
114 hours and counting ...
Inflection Point
Essential Read: This Week Changed the World of High Tech Forever By Robert X. Cringely.
Interview with Mareen Fischinger (in German).
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New Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
 Anxious for this album, albeit I am bummed that he skipped over Indiana. Download an mp3. Cupcakes!!!
Some delicious desserts arrived for Kunal and me today. Melissa, thanks for responding to our plea.Night #4 rolls on ... next stop, 6AM. Back to school
My FIT summer schedule came in the mail today. Starting June, I am taking a night class every Tuesday and Thursday. The course is just a basic 'intro' prerequisite that I need to take before anything else! My hope is to be influenced by nice New York fashion kids, and learn some new words and concepts that will help me grow our clothing (tshirt) businesses. I am excited about Defunker for its potential to move beyond tshirts, and I am eager to meet people at FIT who might inspire ideas.
When developing a new website, I use the Lorem Ipsum generator to make paragraphs of dummy text to serve as placeholders.
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T-Mobile Configurator
I was having trouble programming WAP, MMS, and Internet settings on my new gray-market phone, until I found the T-Mobile Configurator. After you select your make and model, the free service sends an update to your phone, and makes it online-ready!
Congrats Dens! Google Acquires Dodgeball!
Conversate lets you create instant online discussion spaces. "It's simpler, faster, more polite, and less annoying than group emails." via Jakob.
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Good photo.
If Ray Bradbury photographed Manhattan, it would look like this.
What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano by Michael Ian Black.
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Up late.
I am on a marathon... Kunal and I are camping in our 3rd Floor office until we finish a certain company project. This way, we expect to finish a one-month project in 8 days. It's like exam week, complete with the stress, urgency, and late-night smoothie runs. No joke, I am really excited for this. I'll take some pictures once we unroll the sleeping bags, or once Kunal falls asleep at his desk -- whichever comes first. PS. We both appreciate notes of encouragement, and cupcakes. Clustering
Clusty groups search results by topic.Whoa whoa whoa. I like this BETTER than Google. There, I said it. Labels: Fort Wayne
Yay, FOUND Magazine moved in across the hall!
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Last night I saw Mike Doughty, formerly of Soul Coughing, at the Bowery Ballroom. I was excited to finally hear True Dreams of Wichita performed live, but the neatest moment of the night was when Mike asked everyone to hold up their cellphone so that he could take a picture. I wish I had my camera with me because the resulting scene proved to be incredible, if not a little bit scary, as hundreds of glowing blue-screen devices shined above the crowd. He posted a few of the pictures online (if only he had had a tripod). You can see me just right of center in a few of the pictures, with a blue sleeve holding a Sidekick.
Sigur Rós Acoustic Cover
Bill forwarded me an acoustic cover of Sigur Rós' Untitled #4 (a.k.a. the nothing song) by another Wake Forest student who goes by Bristopher Crowder. It's pretty good. I like to play to it immediately after listening to the orginal, which you can also download for free.Labels: Listening
By Accident or Design, Selling T-Shirts Is Big Business on Web: Busted Tees/CollegeHumor on the frontpage of the Wall Street Journal today.
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Danceoff Clips
A couple are online:Round Two: Stage-diving via Marta. Round Three: Seduction via Janelle. (Mom, don't worry, it was just pretend.) I was completely sober, no joke. |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt  June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007  Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |