My old favorite drink: cranberry and vodka My new favorite drinks: * Tom Collins * Whiskey Sour * White and/or Black Russian * Mai Tai Don’t know if I like these or not, but all I ever oder is a cranberry vodka. What a dork I am. I need to expand my drinking horizons. Besides …
Author Archives: Steven Mandzik
I’m a daydreamer
“I’ve long noticed this phenomenon in my own life. I can’t remember a single friend’s email address. Hell, sometimes I have to search my inbox to remember an associate’s last name. Friends of mine space out on lunch dates unless Outlook pings them. And when it comes to cultural trivia — celebrity names, song lyrics …
Why America Fails Wikipedia
It’s kind of sad story, really. Here is this web phenomenon that has seemingly arisen out of nowhere. People are clicking to it by happenstance. Once they get there, they are often confused about what they are seeing. This confusion has led to a strong need to discredit, boycott, and even actively disrupt the world’s …
Youtube Playlists!
How do you use youtube? Do you occasionally visit it for a funny video a friend told you about, do you watch from other sites, or maybe get them sent to you. I know of many people, myself included, now use it for music and music videos. Finally, maybe you don’t use it at all… …
Welcome to the New School
I remember the day when my college stopped passing out a syllabus. Being the standard college slacker, I walked into my new class tired and hungover. I plopped myself down and waited for the standard new class introduction. I was hoping to snooze some, but I was out of luck. Class policies had changed and …
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
MIT is an amazing place to be. Check out this new research center. The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence starts off with the following research question: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?
Listen to these Podcasts
It is my ultimate goal to have podcasting take over the world. “Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?” – Pinky “Same thing we do everyday, Pinky. Try to take over the world”. – Brain Until that happens, or to further my goal, here are some great podcasts to listen to: 1. This …
I want a payphone
They are cool looking, I want one in my apartment. You know. And, considering that they are pretty much nostalgia at this point in time, I wanna throw that out there now, before they start taking them down. When they do I will be waiting with a truck and a smile. It is strange, but …
The Dawn of Community Based Video
Have you ever heard of the term lip dub? Chances are no. It doesn’t help either that the internet dictionaries are missing out on it too. Does this mean I am breaking new digital ground? /hopes. Well, let me tell you all about it, because lip dub videos are fun to make, awesome to watch, …
Moo Cards: the next fab thing
Have you heard of moo cards? They are business cards, but not the traditional ones we use. They are smaller and customizable. A company called MOO has a new service that will create some fab cards for you. One of their services allow you to create mini cards (see pic) based off of your flickr …