Daniel Tosh - funniest comedian I have seen in a long time

I was in Oregon last week and caught Daniel Tosh on comedy central one night. I have not stopped laughing since!

Here is his calendar of appearances - Shows - we'll probably go to the show in SF
Itunes link

19 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down. 
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can on Your Desk and Label it 'In'.

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write 'For Smuggling Diamonds'.

7. Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With The Prophecy'.

8. Don't use any punctuation.

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water when you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go'.

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital. And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area and Play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In the Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!'

18. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'

By far the coolest technology in a decade!

I picked up the new Iphone yesterday. I remember getting a treo handspring for Christmas December 1999. It was the first piece of useful technology. Something that I could actually get excited about.



Everything since then has been neat, fun, cool or otherwise some type of improvement - but this..... the same feeling. I am going to party like it's 1999.

Talented?

Google Reader (885): "Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time."

Hidden Prices at the Store

Read this article. I love stuff like this. Marketing/produce/product/food companies making subtle changes to packaging (giving you less) while charging the same price... Google Reader (887)

Cellphone - Tumor or not?

Have you heard, cellphones are deadly. Science told us so this week when Dr. Ronald B. Herberman of the esteemed University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute realized that cellphones emit death rays that fry your brain and turn you into a baby-eating Communist, or give you cancer or whatever. Dr. Despair isn’t a downer though! Inside, 10 practical ways to keep your precious little brain safe from those ubiquitous chirping cancer slabs…

Read the rest of this article here.... I tend to think it will be one of those issues that 10-20 years from now reports will be confirmed and we will all look back thinking, "why did I use that thing as much?" Similar to those who thought smoking was cool in the 50's...

Randy Pausche - Full of Zeal and Much Inspiration

I posted about Randy a while back. Rather than write my own words I found this on "get rich slowly" posted by J.D. which describes what I might have written:

"Last summer, Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, learned that the pancreatic cancer he was fighting had metastasized, and that he only had months to live. A few weeks later, he delivered his “last lecture”, a talk meant to impart the wisdom he’d gained during his lifetime.

Pausch’s presentation, entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” was a huge internet phenomenon, and was downloaded more than 10,000,000 times. Many Get Rich Slowly readers sent me links to the video. I watched it twice (and bought the book), but I never wrote about it. I’m not sure why not. It had a profound impact on me. It’s inspiring. It’s full of zest for life and praise for dreams.
Randy Pausch died this morning (yesterday - my note) at age 47. Here is the complete video of his “last lecture”"

I am buying his book and followed his online journal for the past six months...