You just have to sit back and take stock of things, and right now I couldn’t be much happier. My 20’s have been quite an unexpected and amazing journey, yet I feel like I’m finding stability, comfort and an overall grasp on my life that I didn’t have a few years ago, let alone ten.
Though she lives literally on the exact opposite coast, I have fallen in love with an amazing woman who loves me an incredible amount for just being the man I am. I also have the greatest group of friends I could ask for. Friends that I’ve made out here, friends I have somehow been fortunate enough to already have in the bay area, and friends who still care enough to make the effort to see each other no matter how far away we may live. Friends who I know will always be there for me - and vice versa.
My job could be more challenging, and in the next year I will likely move onto something that is just that, but for the time being I am content with the job security and the ease of what I do. It has allowed me to focus on other parts of my life that are ultimately much more important.
In the next month I’m going to Las Vegas to celebrate meeting my best friend there ten years ago to the weekend with him and his wife as well as some of our closest friends, followed up by a trip to one of my favorite cities and events in the world, New Orleans Jazzfest where I’m going to cross off two more bucketlist artists (Santana and Clapton), while seeing Phish and a plethora of late night collaborations. At the end of May I’m going to camp, hike and kayak the Moab/Canyonlands area of Utah for my girlfriend’s birthday, and in July I’m going to see my favorite band in New York and Chicago on consecutive weekends.
To say I feel blessed right now would be a complete understatement. It’s taken more patience than I thought I had, and more work than I care to recall, but the path I took has brought me so much love and so many amazing people that I will never regret any of it. In the end it’s just being happy with yourself and your life that matters, and I feel like I’m only beginning to enter the best years of my life.
Longtime Republican strategist Mark McKinnon, who has advised the presidential campaigns of McCain and George W. Bush, said losing Leno is a loss to ‘bipartisan political comedy.’
'Conservative candidates are justifiably going to be more cautious about other [late-night] platforms,’ he said.
The changed politics of late-night TV
Boofuckinghoo. Just another reason it’s nice to have Jay Leno, his ugly chin, and his shitty jokes off television.
The richest 85 individuals in the world hold wealth equal to that owned by the poorest half of the planet’s population, according an Oxfam report.
Take just a few minutes today and reflect on how this is possible and what it means. 85 people together have the same wealth as half of the world combined. On top of that, there’s an estimated $21 Trillion that the wealthy are hiding in offshore accounts presently. Slavery may have ended worldwide quite some time ago, but when half the world is working to match 85 people? Seems more than a little fucked up.
I bet you think the mobile internet is open. That if you write the next great mobile app there is nothing that can stop it from fulfilling its destiny. That if you create a mobile content app that blows away netflix there is nothing that can stop it.
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Yes, let’s tell companies what they can and cannot allow on their platforms just cause they’re successful. That’s a solution. Sorry Cuban, but you offer no viable solutions and are simply pointing out the reality of things.
What about making an effort to make markup languages become so powerful that you can run an app as smoothly over the web as you can by downloading it to your mobile device? Why don’t competitors bring to market mobile operating systems that perhaps force both companies’ hand a bit? Also, Google has let pretty much anything onto their marketplace and it’s made for a hellish experience on many users. While Apple’s app approval process blows, I feel like I can trust what apps are on the store now more than I could a couple years ago and certainly more than Android.
This is a free market and the idea that any software or hardware maker should be forced to open up their ecosystem to anyone and everyone should be decided by consumers with their wallets, not government interference.
What the hell does that have to do with being an idiot driving 60 MPH when there’s 6 inches of snow? Or the morons who got out of their cars endangering their own lives? Or the dozens of other idiots who thought they should drive through the accident? 5 minutes of people not paying attention, or simply not caring. Idiots. Every one of those people.