Once I settle in, I’ll talk about the new firm. It’s actually about time. My concentration (technical passion) in college was distributed computing, grid and cloud-based solutions. However, after school Akkam’s Razor lead me in another direction - gainful employment. Anyway, years later, it seems like I might get that chance to work on a reasonably large, scalable, truly distributed solution. I’m definitely looking forward to that, and it doesn’t hurt that my commute will stay under 30 minutes a day (with traffic).

Looks like the bent corner of a page… Anyway, I decided to take a snapshot and simply ask if anyone else has noticed this? Better yet, do you know what it is?

Update: Someone on Digg brought it up, and as it turns out Google is aware of it, and is fixing it. I was under the impression that they purposefully did this. Oh well. Thanks Brian M.

TechCrunhIT speaks on it too. - Thanks Jason C.

What group do you think you’re in? If not already there, what group would you like to be in?

This suggests an answer to a question people in New York have wondered about since the Bubble: whether New York could grow into a startup hub to rival Silicon Valley. One reason that’s unlikely is that someone starting a startup in New York would feel like a second class citizen. [3] There’s already something else people in New York admire more.

In the long term, that could be a bad thing for New York. The power of an important new technology does eventually convert to money. So by caring more about money and less about power than Silicon Valley, New York is recognizing the same thing, but slower. [4] And in fact it has been losing to Silicon Valley at its own game: the ratio of New York to California residents in the Forbes 400 has decreased from 1.45 (81:56) when the list was first published in 1982 to .83 (73:88) in 2007.

Sad, but true. He talks about Cambridge, MA (Boston) and Silicon Valley, CA. Being raised in the great city of NY, I’ve always thought this, but never had any real evidence. Comparing a Forbes lists from 1982 to 2007 is a start. Anyway, it’s a good read, check it out.

The cinematography was perfect, with beautiful shots of wilderness. The film didn’t flinch at night shots, which many films fail at. The lack of music was a plus - forcing me to wait on the next possible break in silence. More or less, it forced you to actually live in the moment. As to say, even in war, your moments are filled with waiting… waiting for the actual act.

As for the cast, I have never seen such a succinct and disturbing portryal of true psychopath in a long time. Anton Shigur’s (said psychopath) every step is based simply on the concept that fate has brought him to make that step. Making his madness something very… special? A truly amoral being. Killing as the result of a coin toss… or in fact, not killing based on the same toss. The odd thing is even to the end, it seems as if he is right (you’ll see). It caused me to look at almost every moment of the movie, thinking, “Wow, what if?” For example, look to the beginning of the movie: What if Llewellyn didn’t go back the give the dying man water?

Some how, in all of the violence, and death, there were spots of true comedy. How this was done, who knows. I don’t know if that was in Cormac McCarthy’s novel, or the Coen brothers added it. But either way, genius. To some extent, this reminded me of the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Except none of main characters ever really share a scene. Another facet that made the film even better. Even if this movie was just half as good as McCarthy’s novel, he’s clearly in the upper echelon.

Anyway, it’s great how thing change, and yet they stay the same. Driving in the city hasn’t changed: you can (and are expected) to drive like a mad man. I like that. The fine for driving while holding your cell phone (instead of using a hands-free set) is $150. I didn’t like that. The only way I learned that without actually getting a ticket was because an officer told me. Here’s some more background: all the people taking funds at the bridge tolls have been replaced by NYC police officers. I don’t know why, but I assume Mayor Bloomberg had a good reason. I think he’s a quality Mayor.

It was another whirlwind tour of friends and family. In six days, I saw about seven different groups. I went from Rockland County to Long Island, and various places in between. It was time well spent. The family and friends I saw included people that had been asking when I would be back in NY. My response was usually, “No idea”. After 2 years, that gets old, and these loved ones begin to plot your eminent beating. So I went primarily for love, and a little bit of fear.

I even got in a football game (actually three). I sprained my ankle in the first game. This rendered me fairly useless as a lineman in the following games. Also, at my size, when I say I have good hands or that I can QB, most people either silently (or audibly) laugh at my statement, and then move on with their lives. As usual, after gimping my way through 2 games as a fairly useless D-lineman, I called for the QB position. We were down, 3 to 1. I quickly made it a more respectable score of 4 to 3, them. Two separate guys dropped passes that would have tied it up. Regardless, it was a great day.

I’m am tired, and in a bit of pain. But it was definitely worth it. Oh yeah, although I grew up in the city, I never knew how serious Long Island was about seafood. Man, I love NY.

I have to agree w/ the posse. Stop crying about the length of a free podcast! Who cries about unfinsihed podcasts literaing their itunes? Who blames amateur content producers? Wow.