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Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:18:45 -0000

First, that certainly seemed to be your point when you wrote, and I quote, "The signal being sent here is that women have no place in TechCrunch."

Second, so you're saying if it were one image, you would have had no problem with it? Please.

Third, I still love how you assume to know my intent even though you've never met me and/or talked to me. If you took some personal exception to an experience you had that's fine, but don't drag me into this based on assumptions you are making about a person you have never met.

Anyway, you got your recognition now. Congrats. I consider this conversation over.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:50:22 -0000

Great point Rob. But like Paul said, these are women we know fairly well. And as I said, I wasn't there, so I won't really speak to what was or wasn't said. I just don't see an reason to attack me (or Paul) for any of this - whatever this is, if anything.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:57:12 -0000

thx holden.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:57:02 -0000

thx paul, looking forward to reading what you have to say as well.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:56:46 -0000

hmm can't speak to mike's image choice there, but for mine, those were all related to the post. thx

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:12:10 -0000

quite right nate, i never want to miss something. if i had to put my finger on what makes me wake up after only 5 or so hours of sleep (since i'm going to bed so late), it would be that, i really worry about what i missed while asleep.

re: drumming. clearly you know better than i. i wonder if there's a way to master independence while doing something like reading a blog post and responding to emails at the same time. we have two hands and two eyes... but yeah, my problem could very well be that when i was drumming, I was constantly thinking of something else which killed it for me.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:09:34 -0000

that's an interesting thought. i wonder how much productivity is lost versus how much is gained with email/IM/etc. obviously wolfe feels it's much more loss, that might be true in the end. though i'd argue that more creativity might be lost as a result of the distractions, which may be worse.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:07:56 -0000

yeah. at some point I have this feeling that I'll just go somewhere for a year and check nothing.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:02:19 -0000

Okay, I'll play the jazz flute.

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:46:13 -0000

but my point is that if email influx continues to increase, will your system still work? i was working within a similar system for a while, but recently it has become untenable.

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:26:39 -0000

love the escalator payment idea. turn email into a game, it's not unlike something i've been thinking about recently...

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:05:42 -0000

heh i like that idea, my own assistant! sadly, one day, it may come to that.

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:23:10 -0000

Right, you manage it now, but my point is that with email continually increasing, eventually you will reach a point where you would need to spend more hours a day in front of the computer then there are hours in a day.

Re: On Sleep

parislemon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:23:08 -0000

Ha. Wow. Who would want to pass that kind of dream up?

Re: How Does Schmidt Like Them Apples?

parislemon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:29:52 -0000

that's a very good question. maybe you remember my VB post about that situation. with schmidt now out, it could make things easier, and with no litigation about the Pre's multi-touch I suspect we will see Android multi-touch relatively soon. but the rumors of it in donut proved premature.

Re: iPhone To Windows Mobile

parislemon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:37:37 -0000

Shouldn't you be sleeping?

Re: The AP Puts A Gun To Its Head. And A Grenade. And A Rocket Launcher.

parislemon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:54:50 -0000

that, my friend, is a great question.

Re: On Being Divisive

parislemon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:57:31 -0000

That's nice. I try not to let too many hours go by :)

Re: On Being Divisive

parislemon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:57:13 -0000

Thanks man.

Re: On Being Divisive

parislemon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:57:01 -0000

Very true, I think some might actually do that too, so they say.

Re: On Being Divisive

parislemon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:56:43 -0000

Re: The Turning Of Microsoft’s Massive Cargo Vessel

parislemon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:23:00 -0000

But there's a key difference there Anand. The Xbox is the gaming market which Microsoft (rightly) saw as a huge opportunity. The MP3 player is a dying market. It's only a matter of time before it gets swallowed by the phone/portable device market. Sure, if it does gaming well that could possibly work, but that's a big if and still would eventually be something that moves to devices.

Agree with being slow to judge markets, thats where I think Microsoft should be investing me. Like Surface. Still too expensive, could use more push behind it.

Re: The End Of Junk Mail?

parislemon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:48:53 -0000

Yeah archiving out be huge. I hope the postal service here does it soon.

Re: The Turning Of Microsoft’s Massive Cargo Vessel

parislemon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:53:11 -0000

Good points, but in hiring the new ones, some of the old ones that would essentially be doing nothing (of importance for the future anyway) would have to go.

Re: The Turning Of Microsoft’s Massive Cargo Vessel

parislemon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:48:22 -0000

Agreed. The consumer loses when one company dominates. That's one reason why I'm excited to see what Google does with Chrome OS. Too long as MSFT had the OS market locked down. Love the rivalry between those two.