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i love this thing ... the Norpro Egg Rite Egg Timer.
ok ... i am a sucker for soft boiled eggs and this thing makes it really easy to make the perrrrrrfect soft boiler. just through this into the water and wham!, it changes color to indicate what stage the egg is at. for $7, you'll always now get perfect eggs.
thank you to Bree Humphries for getting this for me as a gag gift (that turned out to be a gift i really like and use).
Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain's Potential (Unabridged) by Richard M. Restak
another great Audible find ... this book was actually suggested to me by the site. the book helps you understand your brain, how people think, how to have a better memory, and how to exercise your brain. i recommend this audio book (this one might actually be better in paper book format as it is pretty heavy).
this is my typical flight ...
the plane takes off and i fall right asleep. boom! then, a few minutes later ... the flight attendant wakes me up ... blaring ... telling me about some movie i won't watch
then ... i struggle to get back asleep ... but nooooooo ... it will not be ... 20 minutes later another interruption ... my favorite flight attendant again ... she wants to tell me about all the drinks they have on board. wow ... coke, diet coke, sprite, apply juice, orange juice ... V8 ... cranberry-apple ... cranberry-grape ... OK OK! we get it. yes, we understand that even though you no longer offer free food you gots lots of drinks. we get it. and let me sleep.
... and nooooooo ... don't remind me that alcoholic drinks are $3. doesn't everyone know this by now? can't you just carry a big sign so you don't have to wake me up???
asleep again. at least that cranapple-ape soothed me to sleep. but woah!! heh there, it is the pilot this time conspiring to keep me groggy. he wants everyone on the plane to know that we're over the Rockies right now. uhhhhhhh ... who cares??? and if you look out the window on the left side you can see something cool ... like snow or something ... but i don't care because i'm on the right side and i want to sleep ...
groggy and mad, i thrust open my laptop and pound on some work for two hours. very productive time. but still sleep-deprived, i close the computer and get some more sleep, until, 20 minutes later ... boom! the gate information! blasted gate information. the flight attendant proceeds to wow my fellow passengers and i about gate G8 to Newfoundland, D6 to Dubai, I23 to BFE. uhhhhh ... do we really need this? can't we just take a look at the terminal that is right outside the gate when we land??????
I propose a new airline called Sleep Air.
Motto: "we let you sleep" (ok … I'm not a marketing genius)
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
this is a great book. great book. a bunch of people told me about this book ... even my friend Mark Goffman consulted on the screenplay for the movie that will star Tom Hanks.
i'm sure the movie will be great ... but the book was fantastic. it is a true story about a lone Congressman (Charlie Wilcon) from Texas and a lone CIA agent that conspired to find the Afghan resistance against the Soviets ... and at the same time unwittingly funded the training of some of the most dangerous Islamic terrorists.
Wilson is a quit a character ... a hard drinking (possibly hard drug-using) patriot who knew how to work Washington like no other.
you've probably heard a lot about the book. if you an audio-book fan you can download the 21-hour unabridged version from Audible ... i highly recommend it.
Companies like Browster (see Browster jobs) and Senopy are changing the way we browse and navigate the web through the browser.
some people see the death of the browser as imminent but i think the browser will live for a long time ... and these companies show how it is being extended.
when you navigate using Browster you can see a preview of what following a link will be like by simply putting your mouse over the link. at Senopy, a web site operator can do the same thing with linked advertising. (and thanks Saar Gur from Adteractive for pointing out the link between these two companies to me).
in fact, previewing web pages before actually viewing them (and utilizing more contextual information like help menus) is going to make the web browsing experience increasingly rich. and a lot of things are becoming increasingly easy to do with AJAX. (we've been testing a few of these things out at the karmaOne project and it is pretty cool).
My friend and tech genius Alan Peterson recently launched a new site called DiscoverSudoKu.com
Sudokus are puzzles (see image on the left) ... kind of like crossword puzzles with numbers. they can be very easy or extremely challenging. Alan build a Sudoku generator from scratch ... and he has become a master at solving these puzzles.
i encourage you to check out this new Sudoku craze ... but watch out ... you might get addicted (I am actually going cold turkey in the month of November after spending too much time on the puzzles in October)....
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