This is quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. I realise that statement doesn’t make much sense, but this is funny. Click through to YouTube to see the other episodes. Thanks for the tip Tom.
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
As I suspected, my application for Y Combinator was not successful this time. In some ways, I’m relieved, I’m not sure if I was ready for the commitment of a full-on startup. So now I have time to focus on my work with SmartHippo and see what else I want to develop.
Any ideas for web based, remote businesses are most welcome!
I saw Halle Berry and Benicio Del Torro in Things We Lost in the Fire a couple of days ago. It was a special advance screening, thanks George.
It’s a seriously heavy emotional drama. I could explain the plot in 90 words, never mind 90 minutes. Having said that, it’s beautifully acted, wonderfully shot, and it feels like a well crafted piece of cinema. But I spent the first half hour bored to tears, and the rest wondering when they were going to get round to actually telling the story.
In summary, if heavy emotional dramas are your thing, you’ll love it. If not, I’d save yourself the 2 hours.
The movers had some difficulty emptying the 2 bedroom apartment I posted a photo of earlier. They enlisted some industrial help…
[Edit: Yes that really is a tractor in the background! :)]
Amazon EC2 has added two new instance types. Their standard instance has 1 virtual CPU and 1.7Gb of RAM for 10c (USD) per hour. The newly launched Large Instance has 4 virtual CPU cores (2 cores x 2 CPUs) and 7.5Gb of RAM for 40c per hour. The massive Extra Large Instance has a whopping 8 virtual CPU cores (2 cores x 4 CPUs) and a 15Gb of RAM for 80c an hour.
One of the beauties of the system is you can bring appliances on and off-line as you need them. You can even script your application to enlarge itself. However, the system is not without it’s drawbacks.
Here’s a sneak peak inside the average Montreal apartment. The tenant slept in the bed until this very morning when the moving men arrived!
[Edit: Can you find the bed? It's just behind the microwave if you're having trouble distinguishing it from the rubbish!]
There seem to be very few smart dressers in Montreal. Most people are dressed more functionally, slightly dowdy even. I see few young executives wearing sharp suits and brightly polished shoes. Few bright shirts and dynamic ties.
It’s a completely subjective statement, perhaps the sharp dressers drive to work, or take the metro at different times to me (I try to avoid peak times). But so far, my impression of the average Montrealer is someone dressed fairly averagely. A nondescript, functional dresser wearing warm clothing and sensible shoes.
Is a nation less obsessed with fashion a good thing? In my view, probably.
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