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That is what it has come to in bubbly Silicon Valley. Companies like Facebook, Google and Zynga are so hungry for the best talent that they are buying start-ups to get their founders and engineers — and then jettisoning their products.
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Facebook says the deals are worth it because the company needs creative entrepreneurs who can also help keep Facebook’s start-up culture alive.

via nytimes.com

When I first read the above sentence I thought it said "help keep Facebook's start-up VULTURE alive." It's chilling to think that the best ideas and the brightest talents are just going to get snatched up by Facebook and Google.

And as a died in the wool Gen-Xer I can't help thinking, geez, what a bunch of sellouts. At any rate, I deleted my facebook account last December and haven't missed it since then.

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Xylophone

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:01:38 -0700

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I Lost my Brother

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:32:00 -0800

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything meaningful here. A lot has been going on that I've wanted to post about. But. One thing overshadows everything else.

In August, I lost my younger brother to suicide.

It’s been a shattering experience. It’s almost kind of ridiculous to try and write about it. The most accurate thing I’ve heard describing the experience of dealing with the suicide of a loved one is that there are no words to describe it.

But I feel paralyzed in this blog until I address it.

So here’s the thing. When you find out. Immediately there’s a violent gash that separates your life. The Before and the After. You desperately want to return to the Before but you know there's only the After.

Chaos. Pain. Insomnia. Anger. Confusion. Anxiety. Guilt. That’s how the After starts.

In September I found an incredible art therapy support group called the Rita Project. I started going and my recovery began. Now it’s February and I’m almost feeling normal. I can never get back to the Before. The pain is still there, hard as a rock and confounding, but the chaos, anxiety and confusion have thankfully subsided.

Anger is still there. I’m working on that. And no anger for my brother, like I always assumed is what happens after a suicide. Just generalized anger at the world.

But onto my brother…
He's almost reached saintly proportions in my mind, even though he was so misunderstood in this life. He suffered from a cruel form of treatment resistant depression. I think many with this type of depression don’t make it past the age of 25.
He made it to 36. Today would have been his 37th birthday.

He wasn’t the easiest person to get along with but he was a good person with an awesome sense of humor. He was a total movie buff and the last conversation we had I was telling him I can't watch Tarantino anymore because I can't stand all the gore. He said but wait - you have to watch Inglorious Basterds. He said I would like it despite the violence. And damned if I didn't love that fucking movie.

Goodbye, Mikey. You didn’t deserve to die.

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Wienermobile Siting

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:09:00 -0800

How can you not smile when you see this thing rolling into town?

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Crazy Cloud Day

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:32:34 -0800

Annapolis Mall parking lot.

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iPhone 4 Video Test

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:02:14 -0700

IMG_0008.MOV Watch on Posterous

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Epic Halloween FAIL

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:18:46 -0700

Unseasonable heat + unattended pumpkin = epic Halloween fail

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Oh Wow! Single Rainbow, Man!

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:12:20 -0700

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The kind of shot you can only get with an iPhone (or a panoramic X-ray machine)

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:26:00 -0700

Not too long ago I was in the dentist's office and I had this X-ray done in preparation for getting invisalign. The image was displayed on a fairly large monitor so I took out my iPhone and quickly snapped it.

I guess if I really wanted a copy of it I could have asked him for a print. But there is something so cool about just whipping our your phone, grabbing the image and it's done.

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In the Weeds

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:35:45 -0700

via flickr.com

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Rogue Robots: A fun little video made with iMovie and Garageband

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:04:29 -0700

A couple of years ago I made a slideshow using iMovie. It took me a long time but I was happy with the results. Recently I was fooling around with iPhoto and realized I could have accomplished the same thing, in a lot less time. All I had to do was create the slide show in iPhoto, add music and transitions and voila! it was virtually the same result. That's when I decided to get to know my Mac a little better.

I started fooling around with iMovie and Garageband and here is the result. Nothing special just a little music video made out of a couple of wind-up toys, a lightbox, a camera, and some music loops.

via youtube.com

One thing that I've learned is that when you get a little crazy with iMovie transitions and video effects (which is basically all of this video is!), Youtube does not treat them too kindly, even when saved and uploaded at the maximum quality.

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To tweet or not to tweet

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:53:00 -0700

I felt like tweeting again. It’s been awhile. I kind of fell off the twitter radar mainly because it had started to become a really crowded neighborhood with too many billboards. But also because as a mom I’m so busy I’m lucky if I have time to brush my teeth let alone tweet.

Nonetheless, I had this hankering to tweet. I let out one measly little tweet and now I’m getting nothing but the failwhale. At one point I tried changing browsers (yeah, that makes sense) but I had forgotten my password. And now that I’ve done that it’s like I’m perpetually locked out. It won’t accept any of my new passwords. At one point I got to a captcha screen that said this:

Be Momma. BE a Mama. Nice one, twitter. Way to tell me how to live my life. Yeah, I know the babies are crying and they want their bottles but for once I'd like to write an actual blog post.

So I can’t get on twitter and now I’m not even sure if I want to. But you know that feeling - when you know you should be able to do something and for some reason you can’t, and it makes you want to tear down the walls? Yeah. That’s about how I feel right now.

Anyhow. Just wanted to let everyone in twitterland know I was thinking about them.

*okay. Just went on flickr and it's showing up in Spanish. One more sign from the Internet gods and I will throw out my computer and become a luddite.

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