What were you afraid of when you were younger that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by wandie
I've always been a bad sleeper - god bless my parents for putting up with me as a kid who didn't really sleep. Plus, my mom says the dog used to come wake them up whenever I was up, so they probably suffered more than I did.
What used to scare me in my sleep was this loud "ka thunk ka thunk" noise that I thought was a bunch of military shells going off. (We lived right by an Army base, so this wasn't as far-fetched as it sounds.) It took me YEARS to ignore it, and even longer to figure out that the sound was my own heartbeat, which only got louder the more I held my ears.
And I still don't sleep all that well.
To have to give up such hilarity.
I've been listening to the same songs on repeat most of the time I've been here. It's kind of a sad, wistful playlist - my specialty!
However, if you listen to no other song in your life, listen to Lush Life, with Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Oh, and the R. Kelly/Broken Social Scene mashup that Steve sent. Have a listen.
I love y'all. See you on the flip.
I finally got around to uploading the videos from Noah's second Rock Band Camp. New band. New songs. Noah rocking the drums. Here he is drumming up a storm with his friend Ethan on guitar.
The Y Combinator team does all sorts of great stuff with their startups. I learned about a new one last night. Apparently when you join Y Combinator you are given a gray t-shirt that says "Make Something People Want." There are a relatively small number of those t-shirts in the universe. But the far rarer t-shirt is the one that you get when you sell your company (I assume you'll get one if your company goes public as well -- it just hasn't been long enough for any of them to get there yet). When you sell your company, the Y Combinator folks give you a black t-shirt that reads "I Made Something People Want." There are something like 30 of those t-shirts in existence today (which is pretty impressive in and of itself given how long the program has been around). I was chatting last night with Ryan Junee, the founder and CEO of Omnisio, which was just bought by YouTube this week. He was proudly sporting his "I Made Something People Want" t-shirt at the Startup2Startup dinner last night and enjoying the fact that at that dinner he was a rock star. That's what I love about the startup culture -- it is creative and smart and energetic and makes geeks rock stars. Congrats Ryan. Congrats Y Combinator.
I wonder what the guys who made it are doing now? :)
Julian has been rehearsing upstairs from a big Vespa dealer in San Francisco. If I have to pass this room too many more times, I may come home with one.
I messed up and can't use two tickets to "The Drowsy Chaperone" on August 12th. They are third row center in the Loge and only $75 a piece. I saw the show on Broadway and it is really fun. Wish I could see it but I'm out of town and Julian has a rehearsal. Doh!
