 20061031
Fantastic insight into the Google/YouTube deal. Must read. via Jakob.
20061030
I upgraded Hype Machine to the Frequented list on my right sidebar. It's a MP3 blog aggregator, and for the past 4 months has been my primary source of new music.
Listening to ...
Born Ruffians - This Sentence Will Ruin/Save Your LifeThe Blow - True Affection Labels: Listening
Apes and Androids are playing tonight at the Oh My Rockness anniversary party.
20061026
Finally!
JetBlue is now offering service from JFK to Chicago's O'Hare. Apparently you can book fares for $36 each way if you buy within the next 36 hours.
Dawkins is so hot right now!
Richard Dawkins Tour Journal: Last night in Lynchburg, Virginia, home of the infamous Jerry Falwell, was memorable. The large hall at Randolph Macon Woman’s College was packed. I gave a fairly short program of readings from The God Delusion, and then the bulk of the evening was given over to much more than an hour of Q & A. The first questioner announced himself as coming from Liberty (Falwell’s 'University'), and he began by saying he had never been so insulted, yet simultaneously so amused, by any lecture. Many of the questioners announced themselves as either students or faculty from Liberty, rather than from Randolph Macon which was my host institution. One by one they tried to trip me up, and one by one their failure to do so was applauded by the audience. Finally, I said that my advice to all Liberty students was to resign immediately and apply to a proper university instead. That received thunderous applause, so that I almost began to feel slightly sorry for the Liberty people. Only almost and only slightly, however. We're hiring again
 This time we need a Director of Frontend Development. Listening to ...
Death Ray Charles - BouncedLabels: Listening Life/Work Balance
Reformed venture capitalist Brad Feld: My work – which used to overwhelm everything else I did – is still a central part of my life. However, it is no longer my singular focus, nor is it the most important thing to me anymore. The balance that I’ve discovered has helped me understand the value of other things, which has made my work and – more importantly – my life - much more rewarding.Countering, Fast Company says balance is bunk: Sigmund Freud suggested it first: Imbalance is part of the human condition. The father of psychoanalysis observed that anxiety is a crucial "signal" function, a response to danger -- either external physical danger or internal psychological danger.
Faith in common ground: "Claiming that our own beliefs are superior does nothing to promote understanding between people of faith and atheists."
Boy Scouts Add Antipiracy Merit Badge via Mitch.
20061022
20061020
(I'm an Eagle Scout, and I also share music on a daily basis.) Kid Gloves
Religions don't deserve special treatment via Ricky.
My IM conversations
They're more and more like this one I just had:me (1:59:06 PM): hey, can't chat, need to jam out real quick and dial into a conf call friend (1:59:11 PM): i'm on a conference call with comScore right now friend (1:59:12 PM): haha friend (1:59:14 PM): we're lame Heads up, Chicago
Dear Friends in Chicago: I'm visiting this weekend to see my friends in the NYC Ballet perform at the Harris Theater. I would like to see you, too. Let me know if you're going to be around ...
One of Jakob's Vimeo clips made ABC's 20/20. Hilarious.
CV Portrait: 26 and counting ....
Girl Talk chose Dan Deacon as his favorite show of the year. (Dan played the Round Robin show at USA last weekend). via Paul.
20061012
Thursday afternoon notes
 What's been going on with me lately: 1. Dance parties and rock shows 2. Germans visiting 3. My birthday 4. Bike-riding 5. Couple good movies 6. Winter trip planning 1. I've been dancing and partying. Notable moment: Getting roughed up and then escorted out by security at the Girl Talk show after I climbed on-stage to dance with Greg Gillis. It's cool, though, because he randomly stopped by our party later that night at the Universal Space Agency ... no big deal. BTW, that concert sponsored by Creative Commons, Wired, and Flavorpill was disappointedly overbranded. Hey -- who wants to go see Third Eye Blind play the Altoid concert series at the Apple Store with me this Friday? I'm done with sponsored events. 2. Germans everywhere. My best German pals, Fabian and Mareen, arrived within the same week of each other in late September. Fabian came to celebrate our birthdays (his 9/25, mine 9/26). Mareen is actually living here until December while pursuing photography experience. Check out her Flickr feed. Tonight, Fabian's parents, Lucia and Konrad, are arriving to spend a week with me. We've become close since I spent a Summer in Viersen in 2003. 3. I turned 24. Went to a cabin in the Catskills with some friends. Great friendship event. 4. While in the Catskills, Kunal, Paul and I took couple of killer rides through Woodstock and Phoenicia. It was tough. Sometimes we would ride 1 mile straight downhill, and all the way down I could only obsess over how much it would hurt to ride back up. We rode about 65 miles total over the two days. Here's a map of our first day route. 5. Saw Science of Sleep and The Lives of Others. I loved both. 6. This season, I would like to go snowboarding at Whistler and Jackson Hole, and visit my friends Jeff and Margot in Vail. Booking my weekends now. Need new board pants ... love the 2007 Volcom line. Clearification
Comedian Demetri Martin's new website sponsored by Windows Vista.
Wham City Round Robin @ USA
 TOTALLY HUGE NEWS. This Friday and Saturday, the Universal Space Agency is hosting the first two nights of the Wham City Round Robin Tour. I realize this doesn't mean anything to you yet, but let me explain what this is and why it is incredible. It's 16 Baltimore bands (by Baltimore, I mean not only the city, but also the adjective 'mind-melting') playing round robin over 2 nights. Round robin means that each band will setup along the perimeter of the space and play one song each for 4 rounds -- all you have to do is stand in the center and spin! The first night is themed FEET, which means loud, raucous bands, and Saturday night is EYES for the quiet and trippy stuff. If you didn't already know, Cex is one of my favorite live acts, and they are playing on Friday night. Do not miss the chance to see them in this unusual setting. Even better news -- USA has annexed more space to make this possible. Yep, we got the place next door, so now we're 4,000 sqft of space to share with everyone. The finer details: October 6th and 7th. 32B South 1st. 10pm. $5 at the door. Beer will be for sale. The line-ups: FEET (Friday) Blood Baby Butt Stomach Cex Dan Deacon Height OCDJ Ponytail Video Hippos EYES (Saturday) Boo Boos Cache Cache Ecstatic Sunshine Lizz King Ram Ones Sand Cats Santa Dads Sports Ghosts
Philips Photonic Textiles via Mitch.
20061002
Street Fighter: The Later Years
CollegeHumor looks into the lives of the Street Fighter combatants, 10 years later.
Listening to ...
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star.mp3My Brightest Diamond - Workhorse.mp3 Labels: Listening |
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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) |