January 15 marked the second anniversary of Rubyred’s official launch. Woohoo!
The original vision for the company was to do whatever we thought was fun, and that vision is still very much alive.
We also have a policy of implementing the dumbest ideas we could come up with. Here are a few examples:
Start a company with no […]
I seriously thought this headline on GigaOm was a joke: “Update: Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too.” It turns out Goboogie is changing its name to Lypp, while the Foonz team will be focusing on Utterz.
This has to stop.
Here are 3 rules for naming your internet company.
Use real words.
The companies I’ve worked with over […]
I’ve been following a developing story on GetSatisfaction.com about T-Mobile turning off Twitter. The most interesting part of the story came from a post by Brian Humphrey, a firefighter with the LA Fire Department. He’s been using Twitter to publicly log emergencies and communicate with people around the city. This is a rare example […]
A few of my old friends, including my original design mentor Tony Rose (of digitalwave.com), have been working on a cool project over the past few years. It’s called Back to the Beach Boys, and the basic concept is to reconstruct Beach Boys recordings as live performances. From the website:
No details were spared to recreate […]
“I want to be you”- The coward Robert Ford, according to my guess as to what may be the next line after the one in the preview
I spent the weekend driving around LA looking at apartments, and let me tell you there are some shitty-stank-ass dwellings in that town. This is another thing I’ve gotten […]
“Do you wanna be like me, or do you wanna be me?”– Jesse James, according to an ad for that new movieIf you’ve always wanted to be like me you can start by moving into my apartment. I’m going to move to LA as soon as someone takes it, so you can pick up my […]
The weather.How come nobody told me it would be beautiful every day? The down side: when will I get to wear my collection of fur hats that I accumulated while living in San Francisco?
The smart people.In addition to their general goodlookingness most of the people here are also interesting, hilarious and, yes, smart. They are […]
Move to Los AngelesActually this isn’t so much a “might” as it is a “when.” Los Angeles has many repellent things and many attractive things, but it pretty much comes down to one issue for me. If you’ve met her I’m sure you understand. San Francisco has given me 7 good years, and I’ll probably […]
I have too many things, and as of today I’ve implementing a plan to reduce the number to 1000 by my 30th birthday. It’s not that I don’t like things — I love things — but I think they make me less happy, so I’m going to set up a structure that will keep stuff […]
I’ve had a few blog posts floating around in my head and I want to write all of them. The only way to keep things on track is to make a commitment to you, my dear readers, and have you complain to me if I fall behind.
8 Things I might do next.In this one I’ll […]
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