This weekend Tellme launched a new web site and press about having closed their initial investment round. The news hit it big - cover stories in several places, A4 of the Wall Street Journal, and something big on the New York Times. The web site hit 700M of traffic. It's a good design, as web sites go. The best part, imho, is that it doesn't suck. I have my own standards, but not committing major sins like relying on Java Script for dynamic content and other stuff just makes me feel good.
Not a bunch of amateurs.
Anyways, the management types are very happy about it all. And while it benefits me, it's not my party - I'm not in to all this investment and business deal making and stuff. Tellme business and development types can kick a lot of butt doing their thing, and I'll kick butt supporting them in doing their thing. The news server collecting mail sent to jobs@tellme.com is my party. Not that awe-inspiring, but these things need to get done.
The SysAdmin behind the BizDev behind the spin.
And Be went public today. Go Be!
So, I checked out Tellme's web site yesterday in the morning and what did I
see when I clicked on Join Us
?
Well, it made my ego swell 'til I realized that my picture was selected at
random from a bunch of pictures. Cool,
said I.
And well, we take some stuff from Tellme, we take some stuff from Beth:
And now we quiet down those of you who complain that I aint got enough pictures around the place.
So uhmmm ...
The Adam Sandler movie where he adopts a kid is really funny. Wild Wild West I enjoyed because I knew darn well to ignore the plot, and there were scantily-clad ladies, though not too much of it. The acting was great, but the movie was dumb. Uhmmm, oh South Park is a total blast - go see it! And I saw Eyes Wide Shut.
Well, it's Stanley Kubrick's last film, and I'm not sure he finished it before he left us. I found it interesting, but rather long and seeming to lack a point. Maybe its the sort of thing like 2001 where it'll be more appreciable down the road after I've had a long time to digest it and have read the book. There's some interesting stuff in there about eroticism and sex and relationships between men and women and sex and sex and so forth. Probably a good late-night getting-to-sleep-dozing-off-on-the-couch sort of affair.
What other movies have I seen lately?
Run Lola Run kicks complete butt. It's this German film where the red-haired protagonist spends most of the plot running desperately to get 100,000 marks to save her boyfriend from buying the big one inside of twenty minutes. It's very fun and the techno/industrial soundtrack sounds really good, and I'm not even in to that sort of thing.
It's the kind of movie Goth Dan and Brijeet would really enjoy together.
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