I love this video.

I like flickr because of things like this. They have a sense of humor, and almost a personality. Of course flickr is owned by Yahoo, but they have managed to hang onto their identity. I think more companies need to be more human. Just because you are a company doesn’t mean you have to be a faceless huge corporation. Show us who you are!

So Kevin Rose gets some leaked Tesla shots and posts them. He gets a polite take down notice from Tesla a few hours later. By that time the photos are everywhere and all the top hits on google for any combination of “kevin rose leaked tesla” gets you the photos. Information wants to be free.

 Also, it is interesting that there is an issue about leaked shots. Since when was the last time people were looking at leaked shots of a Ford? Tesla is doing the right thing in making the new car more like a consumer electronic device. Something cool that people want to get a look at. The more like an iPhone you can make a car the better. The new Model S even has a touch screen!

I don’t know what it is about love. Seems like that is the only thing artists can sing about.

 However, from human behavior perspective it makes sense. Everyone has experienced, or wants to experience love, and or a relationship sometime in their lives. This makes it a shared experience that everyone can relate to. It also evokes strong reactions that other themes can’t. We all have shopped at a grocery store but I don’t think a song about shopping at Safeway would evoke the reactions that Taylor Swift’s Love Story does.

Maybe he’d be able to fix the economy. At least the Force would be with him.

Amazing how fast it changes. On Saturday it was almost 70. Dropped 20 degrees on Sunday and snowed today. Weather keeps life interesting.

Josh

I recently sold a Mac Mini I had won in a film competition. I posted it on the new facebook marketplace (which is way better than the old one) and on Craigslist for 500 dollars. Within minutes of posting, I received this message.

hmmmmmmmm. Why would someone offer to pay me 250 dollars more than what i requested, and request an urgent response, and give me a long back story about a graduation in Africa? The whole thing was fishy to me and became more so the more I looked at it. There was no way to respond to this message. This was a new member of facebook, and hardly anyone goes without a profile pictures now. And when I searched for this person, I couldn’t actually find them.
 
I ended up selling it thru Craigslist to a local guy. I met up with him at a local Subway Sandwich and that was it. Trust is hard to come by, giving local options the edge. And it is amazing how many people out there just want to take your money.

I signed up to get the daily local newspaper a month ago. The salesman was one of those nice high school kids with lots of reasons why I should sign up. How its a win win for all parties. Something about him getting money for college, a discount for me, etc. But the paper never came. I never tried really hard to get it to come. Just wrote down my address on his form. I got a couple of calls from the paper asking if I had received a paper yet. I told them no, they asked questions like if my apartment complex had a gate etc. (It doesn’t) But the paper never came so I called to cancel. It was easy enough and in a couple of weeks I got my 8 dollars back. In the form of a check. From Lee Procurement in Davenport Iowa.

 How does that work? My guess is that the paper outsourced billing to these guys. Makes sense. Now I am not a privacy watchdog but it was interesting that this random company in Iowa has my name, address etc. It is amazing how interconnected our world is.

I love soccer.  I was so happy to hear that Seattle had finally gotten an MLS team.  Last night the Sounders pounded last years MLS Cup finalists, the New York Red Bulls 3-0.  Seattle really showed its love for soccer as the 32,000 seats sold out in days.  I am excited to see some matches after this semester ends and I head home. 

I love Apple. I also love the environment. I lived in the Bay Area and now in Seattle, so I guess it makes sense. But my two loves were recently at odds with one another. When I bought my iPhone, they took the wall charger out because a couple of them were faulty. I filled out the form and a couple weeks latter this package came for me.

  3 and a half inches of foam on every side. For a little wall brick? Isn’t this a little overkill? You could almost stick this thing in a manilla envelope and it would be fine. I am a fan of less packaging and less waste. So I saved the box to send something else. Something important that actually needs a ton of padding.