Yay! I had a surprise birthday cake! Also, I am at the beach! And then my girlfriend flew out from LA and drove five hours to get here! And she got me sooo many tequilas and mezcals!
Yay life!
Wikipedia classifies Hoobastank, Panic! At the Disco, Lonely Island, and the Gorillaz as One-Hit Wonders. Obviously whatever formula they are using is wrong. Here is my proposed reclassification scheme:
1. Artist has to have one song that is responsible for 90% of that artist’s popularity.
2. That song has to have made the Billboard Top 40 hits list.
Is that a fair radical redefinition?
p.s. Sorry about that last post. It’s supposed to be published after 6 months of not touching my blog. But apparently it misfired. Sorry Again!
If you could have one type of food not count for you, what type of food would it be? By ‘count,’ I mean in terms of calories, nutrition, hunger, or anything but taste.
Because if so, that is sad. For most of us, the two serve very different purposes. I actually think I thrive differently in different media. I love the pseudo-anonymity associated with blogging. What killed blogging for me was becoming a dumb graduate student. 
Last week, I interviewed a bunch of high school seniors for a very prestigious scholarship. About 50% will get it, which includes about $250,000 worth of funding. The other 50% will have to content themselves with going to Harvard.1
My friend Topher also interviewed these kids. While my questions were all about the candidates’ stated interests, Topher was trying to get them out of their comfort zone. He asked them all a variation of the following question:
If you could take back any idea/person/technology and make it available at an earlier point in history, what idea/person/technology would it be?
Let me know your answers. I’ll tell you mine below the fold.
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