Monday, January 28, 2008
what's in a name

(15:05:45) Dave Lerman: question
(15:05:52) Dave Lerman: do you think of me as a "david" or a "dave"
(15:06:04) Blake Stuchin: lerman

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
xoxo

i'm pretty sure gossip girl uses wordpress.

her blog's heavy on rich media, sports nearly 100% RSS saturation (producing more vibrations on freshmen girls than a swiffer), and updates with the efficiency of a twitter addict at CES. Or Davos. and thank you faux Lycée Français for the open wi-fi that she's tapping in to in order to fire off in-class updates. it's a pretty robust platform, and yet totally possible. you don't even need ues-level spending to build it.

so if gg can be moderately legit with their IT, why is it so hard to keep it real with the nyc? come on disembodied voice of kristen bell, why is your team shooting in cooper square and pretending like you're next to a high school that's clearly on 93rd between Park and Madison? it's not like you don't know better, gossip girl - you sent chuck to butai and referenced sake at decibel in the same episode. (at least you had the decency to keep your namechecks subtle; i'm running out of places in my neighborhood that i still like.) i'd dance on the nuances further, but i'll leave the heavy lifting and further nyc private school love to nymag. xoxo, b.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Danny's realization

(13:20:33) Dan Abramson: i only hang out with guys with facial hair
(13:20:37) Blake Stuchin: yeah i've noticed that
(13:20:43) Blake Stuchin: i wish i were that cool

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Monday, January 14, 2008
lerman sets himself up for these things

(15:23:58) Blake Stuchin: (14:24:30) Dave Lerman: i honestly think listening to mashups while i work makes me more productiv
(14:24:31) Dave Lerman: e
(14:24:58) Dave Lerman: it's like work-out music...for my financial modeling
(15:21:38) Blake Stuchin: you are such a dork
(15:24:07) Matt Nowak: wow
(15:24:20) Blake Stuchin: plus he hyphenated workout, which is even more dorky
(15:24:31) Matt Nowak: indeed
(15:24:40) Blake Stuchin: gratuitous hyphenation is dorktastic

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Monday, January 07, 2008
Elbridge Gerry was a Creative Politician

Today while reading my James Madison book, I learned that the term gerrymandering was a press-coined term in response to congressman Elbridge Gerry's redistricting of the state of Massachusetts in order to win reelection. Here's a bit more on this, courtesty of Yahoo Answers:

"Gerrymandering, the redrawing of congressional districts to ensure that elections favor a particular political or ethnic group, has been around almost as long as the Constitution itself. The term was coined when Eldridge [sic] Gerry, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, sought to engineer his reelection as governor of Massachusetts in 1811 by rearranging voting districts so crudely that one resembled a salamander."

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Friday, January 04, 2008
Web2.0 Applications I Couldn't Live Without



I love Michael Arrington's 2008 Web2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without list, so here's mine in response. With the exception of Kayak, which is a lifesaver for trip planning but I only use it a few times a year, I use all of the items on this list daily. Some thoughts:

- Without Google, I'd basically be incapable of functioning
- And it's really close to the same with SeamlessWeb, too
- I love Twitter even despite my failed efforts to get my friends to adopt it
- Speaking of one trick ponies, SimpleWeather is indispensible for its effortlessness
- As my regular readers know (hi sam!), my avid delicious use is far greater than my propensity for blogging
- Blogger, Picnik and Flickr are the backbone of this blog, although that will likely change in 2008
- At times, woot! is as much responsible for my lack of sleep as business school applications

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Clear eyes, full hearts, nickname envy

(14:50:23) Dave Lerman: what would it take for me to earn the nickname "Smash"?
(14:50:40) Dave Lerman: or anything that sounds remotely like an American Gladiator?

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Wanted: NFL Coordinator. Experience with Scoring Touchdowns a Plus

"The touchdown-challenged Bills scored only 20 offensive touchdowns this season, a record low for a 16-game season. The previous low was 22 offensive TDs in 1985. They scored 252 points, second-fewest ever for the team in a 16-game season, and finished with 248 first downs, also the second-fewest. The 2003 Bills scored 243 points, while the 2006 club amassed 234 first downs."
Link: "Offense came up short" via The Buffalo News

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Updates coming

New year, new look to the blog. I'm working on some updates to the site itself, mostly to better delineate the blog posts from the secondary material in the columns. Bear with me as I sort these out slowly.

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