*The post that makes you feel like you’re a hero. Every Monday morning.
A very funny story, told by Malcolm Gladwell.
Tight structure, insightful descriptions…this story was taken from the Moth storytelling series. Stories are told onstage, with no notes or props – pure performance. Check out their podcast.
Malcolm Gladwell writes for the New Yorker and has written a few best selling books: The Tipping Point, Blink, The Outliers….
If this is what the upcoming Facebook movie is about – it pretty much sounds like a tech geek version of Bridget Jones’ Diary.
…Harvard sophomore Zuckerburg, a comp-sci major, had gotten the idea for doing an online facebook when he was slightly drunk on a Tuesday night. He’d just been dumped by his girlfriend, he was looking for a distraction, and he hacked into a Harvard database….
Birthday greetings to David Zuckerman.
From Garrison Keillor’s daily journal – the Writer’s Almanac
From today’s Very Short List:
But be sure not to miss Endgame, the fantastically suspenseful movie that chronicles the bizarre circumstances that led to Mandela’s 1990 release from prison (available on DVD 2/9).
Endgame, from British director Pete Travis, centers on the unlikely gatherings that eventually brought South Africa from white minority rule to its first democratic elections, in 1994. The extraordinary situation involved a British businessman who risked his life and his career to broker a series of talks between the president of the African National Congress (superbly played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) and, through an Afrikaner philosophy professor (William Hurt), the National Party. Though many shots feature the frustratingly common “shaky camera” style, the film is worth seeing for its standout performances, crisp dialogue and intimate perspective on an improbable moment in history.
Waaaait….so the Eskimo lady is yelling at the Eskimo guy….and the walrus says: Hey guys! Clean my blood off your knife with Sunbrite cleanser!
And check it out…you can see my severed spinal cord in the cross section of my neck!
*For those of you under 40 or not in advertising - Mad Dogs & Englishmen was an ad agency. The one person I know I don’t have to explain this to is Jeff Greenspan.
Thought it up. Made it happen.
And…this pretty much sums up what I’m looking forward to seeing in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland.
Here’s the description of the crib from the Italian eBay site – just to make you love it a little bit more.
ENG (with google translate) : It goes back to 1875 this cradle Thonet, Thonet catalog bears the date 1830. was done by me personally restored by early 2007: stripping, antitarlo syringe and buffer, stucatura, polishing. The cot is in excellent condition, something important: to restore the run but I did not give any final finish or color. This is because I wanted to give the new owner the choice of color. I advice beech natural color or a simple rubber lacquer. Perfectly usable and a prestigious gift.
Personally I find the nest so beautiful with the natural actions visible, but the fact remains that with a few tens of euros and 2 in the hands of shellac over the cradle can return virtually “new” depends only on personal taste.
The cradle have all the original screws and especially hubs to make it wobble are original dell ‘era, also restored. the cradle still the original pin to lock the oscillation.
This object is not only a valuable investment that is more usable and livable, I have bought to restore it and use it for my son …… now it is grown.
I believe it can also be an important gift of impact.
….the Twins….the Twins!
It’s a salad of Tim Burton and Jean-Pierre Jeunet with a touch of Edward Gorey dressing.