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Archive for November 23rd, 2009

Ali! Ali! Ali!

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

What a great documentary. I loved this film. It made me feel young.

Ali is the greatest personality of our lifetime and the world’s most recognized human being.

What a wonderful film. Check it out.  It is 77 minutes of your time. You will smile. “I am the greatest!” So sayeth Muhammad Ali. Truer words were never spoken.

To a Few Folks That Comment on My Blog

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Read this article. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Injuries do take their toll for any and all teams in the NHL.

Like it or not.

And luck does take it toll, too. We hit three posts this weekend. One of those shots goes in and we have another standings point, too.

And we still are in first place in the East so it is what it is.

Onward and chill. :-) Go Caps!

I Broke Down

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

I broke down and bought an iPhone from Apple yesterday.

I will still use my cell phone as a stand alone device to talk to people. But I will now use my iPhone as a web device and a device that will let me post to Facebook; update my blog; and read and respond to my email.

I went into the Apple store - the first in the nation, I might add - in Tysons Corner and worked with an associate and bought a high end 3 GS iPhone. In less than 30 minutes, I was registered and signed up with AT&T. That was kind of spooky as AT&T wanted to talk to me on the phone for a credit reference and asked me about a lease on a car from 1995 and asked if I still or ever worked at Redgate Communications, a company I founded in 1986. Who knew their records went back that far?

The store was packed. The associate really knew his stuff. I am downloading apps like a mad man now. There are more than 100k apps as many of you know that are available to the public.

The iPhone is an integrated platform. I find the service so far to be fast and intuitive and efficient.

The film on SnagFilms called MacHeads reignited my passion for Apple. I worked on the launch of the Macintosh back in 1983/84. I love my iPod and now I have an iPhone. I am back.

Now no one can give me grief anymore that I use a Treo to do my email.

I have joined the ten million other people using an iPhone. So far, so good!

What is the First Rule About Fight Club?

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Don’t talk about Fight Club.

But Kim Morgan talks about it after the fact - ten years after the fact. Wow, a decade has blown by us. You need to read this piece if you are a fan of this film!

Fight Club, I agree, is a seminal piece of work. It is dark, depressing and uncommercial in its blatant commercialism. It is one of the greatest films of the last twenty-five years.

Kim nails it. I don’t know who Kim is but she is one smart and insightful writer. Check this one out. Kim - come and work with us at indieWire. Check out indieWire here.