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1st of tha Month (Bone Thugs N Harmony) [Lyrics via Genius.com]
[Chorus: Layzie Bone & Bizzy Bone] Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up It’s the first of the month So get up, get up, get up, get up, get up So cash your checks and come up Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up It’s the first of the […]
Pleasant Valley Sunday (Monkees) [Lyrics via Genius.com]
The local rock group down the street Is trying hard to learn this song They serenade the weekend squire Who just came out to mow his lawn [Chorus 1] Another Pleasant Valley Sunday (Sunday) Charcoal burning everywhere
Airbnb Letter of Opposition to Registration Statement with Securities and Exchange Commission
(Editor’s note: On November 6, 2020, the following letter, also embedded as a PDF file at the bottom of this post, was mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to The Division of Corporate Finance of The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.) LETTER OF OPPOSITION TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT OF AIRBNB, INC. To Whom […]
Airbnb’s Hotly-Anticipated Federal Bankruptcy Filing: A Timeline of Collapse
Credible consistent rumors, all of which I always get very indirectly, are that Airbnb’s internal financial projections conclude that the company would need to file to go public immediately to actually have the IPO before the end of this year. The alternative is that the company will run out of cash and financial resources to […]
Cultural Peak Geek
Sometime early 2013 was probably “cultural peak geek”, in my opinion. Wired thought it was in 2016. CNN suggested cultural peak geek was 2019. I did a list of cultural events and their dates, put them in order, and concluded that the actual peak was likely 2013. That’s when being any kind of nerd was […]
Road Hacks #2: A Pee Bottle
Yes, a pee bottle. A bottle in which you can pee. A pee bottle could in fact save your life. Seriously. With an increasingly limited number of public places where people can do anything (relax, explore, browse, shop, eat, etc), there is an ever more limited number of public bathrooms to “go number one”. That […]
Road Hacks #1: iPad In The Car
Apple iPad permanently mounted in the car is inevitable. iOS CarPlay is just a gateway technology for iPad-in-the-car. The money cost of buying a new iPad and leaving it in the car is already inexpensive. Probably sooner rather than later, people will no longer connect their smartphone to the vehicle with Bluetooth or anything else. Car […]
Back In The Day #6: Maximum PC
Excitement about a new era of computing intersected the end of the millenium. MP3’s, CD burners, DVD’s, hardware-accelerated 3D, and broadband. Computing started to get really fun for non-nerds. Consumer computers became powerful enough that there started to be specialized systems like the home theater computer and gaming computer. The “computer” started to become what […]
Corporate Compliance In The Startup Industry
(Editor’s note: A conscience is consistently lacking in the startup industry. Compliance may be that conscience. I have more to write about compliance as a conscience, and this essay is a good foundation. This is in thesis form for a writing credit in my second law degree, a post-doctorate Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Delaware […]
Back In The Day #5: Internet Video
YouTube just turned fifteen years old. That means there was no YouTube before 2005. And how quickly we forget that YouTube was controversial in the beginning. YouTube was considered mostly pirate music videos, used as much as 80% of the Internet bandwidth traffic (which was in 2005 still mostly text and low-resolution images), and had […]