Posts filed under “Videos”
Panama Canal crossing video
I got a kick out of seeing this video. It’s a timelapse video taken of a cruise ship going through the Panama Canal. The fun bits with locks are at the beginning and end; in the middle there’s quite a large lake that needs to be sailed across. My old boat (the USS Hartford, SSN [...]
Barack Obama as a Rorschach test
President Barack Obama’s multi-ethnic background and refusal to get tied down to stereotypes has made him a cultural Rorschach test. The definitive proof? This song: There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama (Lyrics here) And a better video can be seen if you click on this link. The band disabled embedding videos…
Running (rowing?) & reading
I found this via Brad Feld, and saw that Furqan blogged about it, too. It’s a short & simple video from Will Smith (the “Fresh Prince”) and his two keys to life: Running and Reading. Because if you want to succeed, you’ve got to be willing to work harder than anyone else. Though I can’t [...]
Best beer ad ever??
My first two exams of the MBA were yesterday (Finance and Accounting), and my last two exams for this term are tomorrow (Marketing and Organisational Behaviour). I’m a bit fried from yesterday, and still have to study for exams tomorrow morning. In honour of this, a bit of an amusing video…
Your Monday morning Sesame Street Gangsta-rap video
Via Unstoppablerobotninja:
Get yourself on Twitter!
One of the biggest stories in the tech world in 2008 has been Twitter. I was at first quite down on Twitter, but have since changed my mind. It’s a mix of a social network (like Facebook/MySpace) and a communications tool (like email/texting). The best way to describe it is through this short YouTube video: [...]
A Friday music video
He’s a rock legend. She’s a bluegrass star. Together, they put together one hell of an album. Here’s one great video:
I’m late to the party here…
… because Vampire Weekend started getting huge in the beginning of 2008. While I heard their music then, I recently listened to a few songs again and got really hooked all of a sudden. Their album is a really interesting, unique, solid piece of work. (Pop with African hooks and beats to use broad descriptive [...]