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That moment when the music you are listening to matches the GIF perfectly.
(via that-little-twinkle)
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KOBE BRYANT and the 40-MILE BIKE RIDE
Interesting tidbit from an article on the Clippers’ Blake Griffin, by ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne:
Blake Griffin needs to know if the story is true. Ever since he first heard it last July, he’s been obsessed with it.
“The first night we all got into Las Vegas last summer for the USA Basketball camp, I heard Kobe went on some 40-mile bike ride at night through the desert,” Griffin says. “Forty miles? At night? You think it’s true?”
Before I can answer, Griffin continues:
“When I found out about that bike ride, I was so tempted to ask him if I could go next time.”
This is my favorite part about Kobe: you assume this story is true. Forty miles in the desert? You don’t even question it.
…in this moment, all Griffin wants to talk about is whether or not Kobe Bryant really got on a bike and rode 40 miles through the desert last July.
“I love that stuff,” Griffin says. “I love all those stories.”
The story Griffin heard turns out to be true. And it goes something like this: Bryant told his longtime trainer, Tim Grover, that he wanted to add in bike training to his summer conditioning. Grover researched a trail in Las Vegas, rented three bikes — one for Bryant, one for himself and one for Bryant’s security guard — and on the night before the first day of practice, they each put on headlamps and headed out to the trail and rode.
“We finished up around 2 a.m.” Grover said. “And we were back in the gym working out by 7:30 in the morning.”
And that’s just it. To Blake Griffin, and most of the NBA, these are just stories.
To Kobe Bryant, that’s a Tuesday night.
I envy people with that fire and drive, that determination to do everything and more to reach their goals.
(via samhumphries)
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☛ Daring Fireball Linked List: Two Takes on Google Glass at I/O
One of these guys is wrong.
Opinions now a zero sum game where only one is correct. Maybe I should quit reading the site.
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☛ Google, the Villain
I do not understand the bickering and name calling that goes on between Google and Apple users but, it is down right stupid. Apparently, so does Matt Alexander.
There is a difference between the two companies and that is in how they operate, not why they operate.
Apple and Google are fundamentally different. Google believes in building with its users, whilst Apple believes in building for its users.
Additionally, the great freak out concerning the advertising that Google does to pay the bills. I understand why this is a problem for some people. I do not understand why this is a reason to be angry at a company.
The cost of entry for a user into the Google ecosystem is a minuscule processing cycle occurring somewhere deep within an anonymous server farm to push a targeted ad towards you.
Perhaps you, as a technologist, balk at such an intrusion. Most, however, focus only upon the end-result.
I don’t know about you but, I would much rather see an ad for something that I am interested in, have researched, or is targeted than something that has no relevance to my life in any way shape or form.
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☛ ShortFormBlog: Thoughts on Tumblr and Yahoo (in rebloggable form, upon reader request)
Sit back and see what happens. You may not even notice a difference. You may notice a good difference. You may decide it’s not what you want and move on.
Michelle Catalano just expressed my view of most technology news in four sentences. Four. The “Tech” press likes to cover rumors. The only response to rumor is the four sentences above.
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☛ Reflecting and Broadcasting
Does the act of contemplation and musing fundamentally change when the space between a guarded thought and a global announcement is so small?
I like the thought. I like that it has been thought for a long time. A similar thought happened when the printing press was invented. And when the phonograph became reality. When the telegram and telephone were invented someone thought this thought.
This thought is not new. It has just evolved over time. The time frame as shortened dramatically but the essence of the thought has stayed the same.
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Cats. You can’t explain them.
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oh man life goal accomplished http://bit.ly/186CswD
I love the fact that one of Patrick’s life goals was visiting Shake Shack.
Now, I’m jealous.
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I really shouldn’t be watching cooking shows when I’m starving. It’s inevitable that whatever I make for breakfast will be inferior to what I’ve watched TV chefs make this morning.
Also, no I’m even hungrier than I would normally be.
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Sunny southern California? (at DPI West)
