 20061130 Amazing Comeback
Ridiculous footage from a 1994 H.S. Football game in Texas. Plano East is down 41-17 with 3 minutes to go. Totally insane.
Drive-thru rap
Fast Food Freestyle. Filmed in Fort Wayne at the Dupont McDonald's.Update: Interview with Joe Wood, the videomaker, on Fort Wayne's Majic 95.1. Labels: Fort Wayne New Shoes
 I purchased a pair of these Clarks. I like them. Good materials, even better construction. Recommended to me by Pepper Watkins.
MyTunes works with iTunes and allows you to save music from other computers on the same network to your local hard drive.
AirTran doesn’t choose Fort Wayne. Cruddy Phoenix instead. via Ryan Lengerich.
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Labels: Fort Wayne Babel
Even if you didn't like the movie itself, the Babel soundtrack is pretty good. (I liked the movie, too).
Oh, you can scroll by pressing up and down!
Everything beautiful about the Nintendo Wii can be summed up in one embodiment: The Help Cat. Living deep within the Photo Channel, this is my 2007 vote for the greatest, weirdest, most terrible, wonderful User Interface Design idea of all time — contextual help you have to catch. Something about this is so totally Nintendo, totally ridiculous, and totally a great use of the Wii Remote. While we're easily amused, make no mistake, people: we spent five minutes having fun just trying to catch a cat that gives you help. What more can be said about the Nintendo Wii?Watch: Wii Help Cat via Andrew Pile. 2 years away ...
Talby. Only available in Japan. I'm a heartbroken mess.
Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever
#7 is hilarious.
Most Popular Cameras in the Flickr Community via Ricky.
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My Favs
 Here's a slideshow of my favorite pictures I've taken (a mix of good shots and good memories).
Michael Richards apologized on Letterman.
I am in Fort Wayne.
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New Google Cafeteria via Sonya.
Vimeo gets better and better. Original video clip by user kschaal.
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Big month for magazine mentions
New Life Goal
Speedflying ... half-parachuting, half-skiing. via Kottke.
Did anyone else in NYC buy a Zune?
 The Zune is an iPod-competitor released by Microsoft this week. I purchased one because I am interested in its sharing feature. Users can send photos and music to other Zune devices in the immediate area via Wi-Fi. If you have a Zune and live in the city, please let me know. I would like to arrange a meetup so we can experiment with the community capabilities of these things. Reactions after 24 hours: Cool
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BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti's new site, designed with help from Kottke. From the About page:BuzzFeed only features buzz that is detected by our technology and selected by our editors. We do not accept payment for coverage and we refuse to link to any blog or news source that takes money in exchange for writing positive commentary. Our aim is to aggregate authentic excitement that captures what real people are saying about the things they find most interesting.
Fort Wayne gets non-stop service to Orlando on Allegiant Air:
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It will operate 150 seat MD-80 jets out of Fort Wayne International. Service could be expanded to Las Vegas and Tampa if the initial service offering to Orlando is successful. Labels: Fort Wayne
Webcam Snowstorm via Ben.
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The Mattoid - HappinessLabels: Listening If you see any band this year ...
Come see Apes and Androids tonight at Gothamist's Movable Hype Party.
Little Old Wake Forest - Not anymore! This weekend, the Demon Deacons handed Bobby Bowden his first ever home shutout in a completely dominating 30-0 waxing of the 'noles in Tallahasee - and now lead the ACC with a sparkling 9-1 record.
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America's Top Colleges
CollegeHumor published its first annual Power Rankings, naming the best schools in the US for having the maximum amount of fun while putting forth the least amount of effort. Criteria includes the percentage of girls in relationships and the number of all-male vocal groups on campus.The state of Indiana placed two schools in the top 10: #2 IU and #5 Purdue. Listening to ...
Professor Murder - Free Stress Test (remix) via Nick.Labels: Listening
Aries Spears' rapper imitations. Uncanny.
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Jordan uploaded a video from the early days of the Universal Space Agency (8 months ago). We were assembling our table saw.
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Menomena - Wet and RustingLabels: Listening We love our town this much
 Last week I posted a note about AirTran and how they're considering expanding routes to include Fort Wayne. They're conducting an online poll to gauge the interest of residents in their potential new markets. Going the extra mile, some guys from Boyden and Youngblutt (a saavy Fort Wayne ad firm) campaigned to residents downtown to create awareness of the poll. Keep in mind, they weren't hired to create this stunt -- they're just excited to do what they can to make this happen. Cheaper flights to and from Fort Wayne will substantially increase the city's livability, and thankfully they realized they could contribute to the effort so creatively. Truly good deed, B&Y. I appreciate it. See more photos. Labels: Fort Wayne Cable beware! Verizon isn't just talking, they're doing video now! Tivo wake up!
Verizon close to signing deal with YouTube to distribute on-demand video over their mobile and FiOS networks.Why isn't Tivo in on this yet? I just sent them the following email: Dear Tivo, Update: Forbes agrees. They wrote a similar letter. Notes from the South
Nick picked me up at the airport, but before we left, we grabbed a sandwich from the massive food court attached to baggage claim. I noticed Nick had mostly ignored his sandwich and was busy observing the scene around us. As though he knew I was watching him, he said without looking back at me, "The airport is the closest thing to a big city for me. I don't see this many people at once very often." I hesitated, then I confessed that the Atlanta aiport is the closest resemblance to shopping mall I've seen in a long time. It seems the gates are crowded in every direction by something like a Panera Bread Company or an Eddie Bauer outlet store.Confirmed: The traffic is worse than LA's. It took us 90 minutes to drive the 30 miles from Hartsfield to Nick's Alpharetta office. I told Nick that I would move from Atlanta before having to suffer this commute for a week. He said, "Good call, because there's only two ways to waste time in life: In traffic and a bad marriage." I visited Nick's office at Flight Display Systems. The company is owned by his family, and they design and manufacture entertainment systems for aircraft (like flatscreen displays). Their 20+ employees is a double in size since my visit last year. Nick's dad just returned from a trip to Southern Texas, where he had chance to tour the new Google 767 outfitted for Larry and Sergey. On the way to Nick's house, we pulled into a gas station and parked. Nick asked, "Can you imagine why I've stopped at a gas station when my tank is already full?" "You play Powerball?" I wondered. "No, for BBQ," as he opened up his car door. I followed him inside reluctantly. Earlier, I asked that we eat some BBQ, because I miss it in NYC since moving away from school in Winston-Salem. Sure enough, inside the station, a man behind a stand was selling buns and pulled-pork by the bulk . It was constructed like a booth at a country fair, with a set of stools and a bar on the side, where a family of three was dining. I admit I was skeptical because the place was nowhere as charming as the sawdusty restaurants in North Carolina, where we would famously order a pound of meat and gallon of sweet tea every visit. Nick asked, "It's pretty good, right?" Yeah, it's pretty damn good. We took the sandwiches home and watched an episode of Discovery Channel's Atlas. I had never seen it before, and now I'm eager to start recording it on my DVR. This week's episode was about Australia. The photography, and narration by Russell Crowe, was excellent. We headed out for another snack. We drove to a seafood bar to get oysters done Southern style: steamed and served on saltine crackers with cocktail sauce, horseradish, and Tobasco. Washed down well with a Budweiser. Then, for the final act of the night, we drove out even deeper into the sticks to The Lantern Inn to see an Elvis impersonator. The place looked like a old dancehall, or a stripmall church, and in front shone a flourescent sign announcing "Elvis Lives!" Inside, we found that his act hadn't started, and instead a country rock band was playing songs like Three Dog Night's "Never Been to Spain." Our attention was quickly grabbed by a group of 12 tipsy, at least 35-year old women who were dominating the dance floor. Seeing as that they were all dressed up nice and in a place like this wearing identical gaudy gold-rimmed sunglasses, I guessed they were here for a bachelorette party. Turned out it was birthday, and they were all VERY excited for Elvis to come on stage. They were fun to watch as they rotated between finishing off margaritas on their table and laughing uncontrollably as they flailed their arms to the wailing of the cover band. They must have all been thinking, "If only my husband could see me now!" Then, suddenly, that one song started playing, you know the one that is famous for introducing Elvis, but is also used by a game show -- The Price is Right or Let's Make a Deal, I can't remember which -- and the table of women became hysterical chanting, "El-vis! El-vis!" And just as promised, out came Elvis, dressed fit in a gold sequence jacket. He grabbed the mike, and everyone went hush, and then Elvis pointed at an Asian man sitting in the frontrow and shouted with a thick Georgian accent, "Who let Kim Jong-Il in here?" (I admit, the guy looked a lot like the North Korean despot). The audience was bewildered, and nervously laughing, but mostly sat quieted. Then, one of the party ladies, this one name Wendy, shouted back, "Sing Elvis! We came to hear you sing!" Elvis snapped back, "This ain't no singing show. I tell jokes. Believe me, if you hear me sing, you'll just beg me to start telling jokes again." Then Nick clued me in. This was a gag the locals loved. All the Atlanta surburbanites hear of this Elvis impersonator and come out in droves expecting a Vegas-styled lounge show. As it turns out, he's only a crass, homophobic racist who slightly resembles Elvis. The birthday women were completely sullen. Anyway, it turns out he did sing a little bit, but not with effort. The show was meant to make the audience feel awkward, and the women would never forgive Elvis for it. 60 million fans now minus 12. If you're interested in a more thorough account with pictures, see this Atlanta blogger's post. *** We're heading over to Athens today to see some other college buddies of ours: Jake, Jenny, and Everett. *** Listening to Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - I'm Winging My Way Back Home and Atlanta's Eagle 106.7 FM. Labels: Listening Atlanta
 I am going to Atlanta tomorrow morning, and I am wondering what I should do there. Do you have ideas? Cheaper Thanksgiving flights appreciated
AirTran is conducting an online poll to help determine which cities it will add routes to next, and Fort Wayne is one of the options. Vote for us!About 340,000 passengers boarded flights from Fort Wayne International in 2004, but a study has shown that more than double that number would fly from FWA if the flights were cheaper (right now, a lot of Fort Wayners drive to Indianapolis, which is 100 miles away, where the flights cost about half as much). So the good thing about AirTran, and other low cost airlines, is that when they enter a market they drive competitiveness. AirTran, for example, reports that in new markets, demand typically increases 150 percent and competitors’ fares typically decrease by 50 percent. FWA approached AirTran a few years ago, but the airport ended up striking a deal with ATA Airlines that included a $2.4 million incentive package. The Indianapolis-based airline declared bankruptcy less than a year later and pulled out of the Fort Wayne market after just seven months. Source: The Journal Gazette Labels: Fort Wayne |
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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) |
