Some good friends of mine run a site called IdeaMensch.com, “Featuring people with good ideas from all over the Internet.” . It’s a great site with some great potential… My interview went live today. You can check it out here.
It’s been a long time coming, but after seven months we’ve finally unveiled our new digs at Think Brilliant. We’ve pined over this design for a long time, and after bailing on two previous concepts this layout successfully emerged.
SoulPancake is number four in WIRED’s “What’s WIRED This Month” playlist in the January 2010 issue. Rainn graces the mag with a little shot of his near perfect Michelangelo-esque physique, and we get a nice blurb as well! It’s on page 48 in the magazine.
Posted in Insanity, News, SoulPancake, Ze-awwn-line-inter-toob, lifeisawesome at December 17th, 2009. 2 Comments.
I wanted to setup a place to share my thoughts. Twitter doesn’t give me enough “oomph” and I usually ramble about Apple, Google and other tech stuff there. Every once in a while, I try and write down something I’d want my (non-existent) children to hear. Avha.me is where I will (attempt) to save these thoughts.
Posted in Evolution, Insanity, Thank me later, Ze-awwn-line-inter-toob at November 19th, 2009. No Comments.
This photo of Jobs resonates with me. His intentions look pure, and his eyes look focused. Not to mention the Mr.Burns like hand position.
Posted in Didn't Think I'd Have An Apple Category, MyFanboySide, Ze-awwn-line-inter-toob at November 6th, 2009. 1 Comment.
It’s really no secret that I love 37signals. I religiously use their products and I like to think that we run our company very much the same way they run theirs. That’s why when SoulPancake was mentioned on the 37signals Product Blog, I was almost more excited than when we were profiled on ABC’s Nightline.
Posted in Insanity, MyFanboySide, SoulPancake, Ze-awwn-line-inter-toob, lifeisawesome at November 5th, 2009. No Comments.
In September, the entire SoulPancake founding team got together at Rainn’s house to spend some quality time together… Nightline was there to film most of it. Visit this page to watch the entire segment
Since our entire team is spread out across Portland, OR – Los Angeles and Nashville, we don’t get to see each other too often. That means that when we are together, we enjoy our time with each other that much more.
Below is a video with the almighty Rainn Wilson visiting Jay Leno. I trimmed the video down to the start and end point for when SoulPancake is talked about.
From film.com: The Office’s Rainn Wilson sings about the birds and the bees on the Cartoon Network’s adults-only comedy series.
Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show (Great Job!) is a show that’s difficult to just blanket recommend to folks. The cable-access-outtake format requires a certain taste in comedy that a large majority of the population never acquires, even those familiar with Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup. It can often seem just weird for the sake of being weird, but through the insanity many great moments of surreal comedy bubble up.
Take the Rainn Wilson guest appearance as child singer Bobby Stoan, showcasing his limited knowledge of how to make babies (see video below). The visual joke of having Wilson’s face digitally placed on a real toddler is funny enough, but having him sing “do you really have to pee in a girls mouth to make babies?” is beyond funny. Kids do say the darndest things, including this misinterpretation of the birds and bees.
This is easily the funniest video I’ve seen in months. Just watch. Read More…
One of my great friends Tom Fite found this original pie chart on this blog. Since the quality was so bad, but the chart was so incredibly amazing, I decided to enhance it a bit and make it readable.
Over at SoulPancake, there’s some hilarious yet amazing stuff going on with Rainn, and Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. Digest this video below, and then dive into the discussion.
If you’re not familiar with Digg.com, here’s the jist… Members of the site find good content from around the web, other Digg members then vote it up or down, if a story gains popularity it makes the homepage, thus resulting in national exposure.
In theory this sounds like a great concept. However, sites primarily driven by user generated content can quickly turn into a sticky mess of bullshit. When these same sites are centered around an ever-revolving popularity contest that has absolutely no meaningful or stimulating interaction at all, they implode…
Welcome to Digg.
While checking in at SoulPancake today, I was turned onto SIA for the first time by SoulPancake user coffeeyesplease. The intriguing discussion can be found here and has some great music discovery if anyone’s interested in finding some new stuff.
If you have some time this weekend and are in the mood for some serious laughs, here are the latest two episodes of The Office. Titled “Lecture Circuit: Parts 1 & 2″ the series has really been delivering the goods this season.
Watch the videos >> Read More…
A little introduction: Over at Think Brilliant, we use a suite of web-based applications to manage our company’s communication, directly reach our clients and partners, and generally stay organized. It’s been developed by a great company based out of Chicago called 37 Signals, and for the most part we have no complaints.
But… The one feature missing from a crucial piece of the puzzle is becoming a nasty liability. One too risky for us to keep avoiding. We’ve tried to keep our mouth shut for months because we know there’s a wall around 37 Signals and they don’t like listening or taking requests for new features. But, we are long time partners who are deeply entangled with our BaseCamp centralization. By this feature being missing, we are considering doing the unthinkable, well until now… and leaving 37 signals.
37 Signals makes 4 pieces of software that can be grouped and used together, or one by one, depending on a particular person or company’s needs. The products are called Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire. In this post, I’m talking about Campfire.
Posted in Insanity, Opinions, SimplyStaggering, Think Brilliant, Ze-awwn-line-inter-toob at January 22nd, 2009. No Comments.
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