Blog Entry
Goes here. See, that wasn’t so hard, was it? So why can’t I seem to do this on a daily basis?
Breaking the Seal
Didn’t mean to fall off the blogging bandwagon here. While I’m still on the apartment search, things are cranking well on all other fronts, so I have no excuse other than momentum for the radio silence. Back to it.
Unmoved
Apologies for the radio silence; it’s been a hell of a month.
Twenty-four hours before we were set to move to the aforementioned new apartment, we discovered that, despite our signed lease, the landlord had given the apartment to someone else.
So we’ve spent the last month living surrounded by boxes, madly scrambling to find a replacement apartment.
On top of that, I’ve been neck-deep in closing the last of Cyan (so that all the investors are made whole before we close down shop completely), getting Outlier up and running (and making its first portfolio company investment), helping Jess launch a company herself, and managing CrossFit NYC’s build out of and move to its new, much larger location.
Life is never dull.
Doppelganger
Via my sister-in-law Nina, who noted that this somehow reminded her of me and Jess:
Sadly, she’s totally right.
Paging Doctor Spock
According to Einstein, the putative creator of this puzzle, 98% of the people in the world aren’t able to figure out an answer. Are you in the illustrious / deeply nerdy 2%?
The Facts:
1. There are five houses in a row in different colors.
2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.
The Question:
Who owns the fish?
Some Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Yes, this is solvable with the information provided; I banged out the answer in about ten minutes.
Also, I hate puzzles.
Zen Parable
One day, walking through the wilderness, a man stumbled upon a sleeping tiger. As he tried to sneak past, the tiger awoke, and began to chase the man. The man took flight, running as fast as he could until finding himself at the edge of a high cliff. Desperate to save himself, the man climbed down a vine and dangled over the jagged precipice. As he hung there, two mice, one white and one black, appeared from a hole in the cliff and began gnawing on the vine. Suddenly, the man noticed on the vine a plump wild strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth. It was incredibly delicious!
Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal world. [Via.]
I’m not a huge fan of Dilbert, but I do tend to love Scott Adams’ prose writing. His blog isn’t just funny – it’s also reliably smart and insightful.
Early this week, he wrote about Men’s Rights:
According to my readers, examples of unfair treatment of men include many elements of the legal system, the military draft in some cases, the lower life expectancies of men, the higher suicide rates for men, circumcision, and the growing number of government agencies that are primarily for women.
You might add to this list the entire area of manners. We take for granted that men should hold doors for women, and women should be served first in restaurants. Can you even imagine that situation in reverse?
[…]
Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated by the widespread suppression of men’s rights:
Get over it, you bunch of pussies.
The piece caused enough of an uproar that he pulled it 24 hours later; fortunately, Google still has it cached, as it’s definitely worth the read.
Cee Lo’s “Fuck You”, in ASL.
Former Columbia Pictures co-president Matt Tolmach just optioned the 2010 Black List script The Kitchen Sink. He explains, “it’s more in the spirit of The Breakfast Club than anything, but you get an idea of the title in an early scene where two kids are running from zombies. Those zombies suddenly are attacked by vampires. Just when they are all facing off, there’s a bright light overhead. You realize the aliens have landed and these groups have to band together, suppress the urge to kill each other, and it becomes thematically the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That makes it different than your usual zombie, vampire, alien movie.”
A timely addendum to my earlier “Listed” post.