Unemployed or Lack of Passion?
I am not a sage, nor am I a millionaire, but I am doing what I love for a living, working from home, and waking up excited about every single day. Keeping that in mind, read on:
We have all heard that the unemployment rate is getting worse, and the reasons why are obvious. Banks and businesses are folding left and right in this Grizzly Bear of a market. You can find one individual’s tale about unemployment here. The latest figures I have seen from the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts 24-54 year olds at 4.8% and growing everyday. 25-29 year olds are at 6.5% and 30-34 year olds at 5.2%; virtually unheard of since I have been alive. Hundreds of thousands are losing their jobs every month since last summer, and it will only get worse. … Continue Reading
Romeo and Juliet at The Met Theatre
It’s the classic tale performed in a classic style at The Met Theatre in Los Angeles.
With a few exceptions.
Despite an awkward opening that eliminates the classic prologue in favor of a cast melee (replete with several actors yelling at the Stage Manager in the far back corner of the theatre – confusing), director Louis Fantasia’s unfussy handling of the material kept the language and action in fluid thematic focus. Fantasia is also Director of The Huntington Library in Arcadia, CA. Howard Schmitt’s elegant, straightforward costumes helped keep us within the period and did not distract. … Continue Reading
13 Startup Tips from Paul Graham
This came from Paul Graham’s website, www.PaulGraham.com, and they are some of the best tips I have ever read for launching a business. My co-founder and I are trying our best to use them in our new business venture, and so far they’re working. Just wanted to share them:
1. Pick good cofounders.
Cofounders are for a startup what location is for real estate. You can change anything about a house except where it is. In a startup you can change your idea easily, but changing your cofounders is hard. [1] And the success of a startup is almost always a function of its founders.
2. Launch fast.
The reason to launch fast is not so much that it’s critical to get your product to market early, but that you haven’t really started working on it till you’ve launched. Launching teaches you what you should have been building. Till you know that you’re wasting your time. So the main value of whatever you launch with is as a pretext for engaging users.
3. Let your idea evolve.
This is the second half of launching fast. Launch fast and iterate. It’s a big mistake to treat a startup as if it were merely a matter of implementing some brilliant initial idea. As in an essay, most of the ideas appear in the implementing. … Continue Reading
Zoë Keating and Just One Cello
I read something interesting on Wil Wheaton’s blog over at www.WilWheaton.Typepad.com (poor guy effed up his site or something so he’s stuck at that crappy URL until it gets fixed). Wil Wheaton, some of you may remember, played Wesley Crusher, Dr. Crusher’s snot-nosed son on Star Trek: The Next Generation. More importantly, however, he was the kid who liked to write in the film classic, Stand By Me.
The Worst. Search Result. Ever.
Still with this crap, eh Google?
I first noticed this little jewel in my search results back when I started this site in ’07, and still nothing has been done. I appear on all of the other results (thank God in the first position, too), but what is it going to take to get this damn sexual offender in Florida the hell away from my name??
This is growing tiresome. As is the fact that the guy looks like my Dad without his beard.