Well, this is just hilarious...    Its an interview done from inside Halo 2.  First of all, can I remark about how ridiculously realistic video games have gotten since I was playing them?  Does anyone remember Contra?  To get extra lives, before the came started, you'd have to hit up up, down down, left right, left right, B, A and then hit start. 

Link: This Spartan Life - Episode 1 - Module 3.

I have SO MANY things I want to blog about, take pictures of, etc. but I have no internet at home yet, and on top of that, my Treo is busted.  I get a new Treo on Friday and internet on Saturday, so you should see a lot of posts this weekend.  In the meantime, I'll be just letting all this stuff build up.  If I seem distracted or I'm sitting uncomfortably (depending on the quality of the blog post I'm thinking about), now you know why. 

Its amazing how disconnected I feel without e-mail on my phone and broadband in the apartment.  I might as well be living in Saskachawan.

Link: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.

Colin Powell got named a "Strategic Limited Partner" at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers today.   Apparently, all it takes it get into that fund is a unanimous confirmation from the Senate. 

So Fred had a blog post stolen from him yesterday and Michael Parekh had the same thing happen a few days before.  Their posts are winding up on this blog.

By who?   Fred's post listed an author link to this site.  But who is A1Technology?  There aren't any people listed on the site.

So I did my usual hard target search and it turns out that the guy responsible is relatively easy to find.

Got texted early this morning, around 6AM...  it just said "London bombed".   I had no idea what I was going to see when I turned on the TV, but it gave me a flashback to going to CNN.com for the first time on 9/11 to see what all the fuss was about. 

I have one friend who is on my mind who doesn't really go in and out of the city too much, but I hope her and her friends are ok.   Aims...  drop me a line.

Broken Glass, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

Punks... No respect for other people's stuff.

You've probably noticed that, while I've been moblogging, I haven't really been posting much of substance in the past week.  That's mostly because I've moved... well, sort of.  I'm staying at my friend Joy's apartment, who was on vacation for a week and is now consulting up in Hartford.  I needed to be out of my apartment last week, but I'm not closing on my new place until Thursday.  So, all my junk got moved into the new place, except for me and my clothes.  The owner was nice enough to let me keep stuff there before my close, but I can't move in until I actually own it.  So, I'm living this unfortunately temporary life that has really messed with my head.  This happened when I first moved into my place four years ago *wow* and I hadn't finished assembling all my Ikea stuff.  When I'm not settled at home, it really affects the rest of my life.  I have trouble thinking, trouble committing to decisions.  I could never be a salesguy on the road.  As much as I like my mobile/wifi lifestyle, I need a warm cozy hearth to return to at the end of the day.  It gives me somewhere to anchor my thoughts and frees up my mind to execute better.   

Here are some pics from last week's move... thanks to Pastore and Cory for helping out...

Utterly fucking ridiculous...

Link: WWF | Newsroom.

Chiang Khong, Thailand - Fishermen in northern Thailand have netted a fish as big as a grizzly bear, a 646-pound Mekong giant catfish

I'm lonely, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

Brad and Fred are out at board meetings and Kerri went out to lunch.

And now, Bill Burnham (no relation to Brad) can move on to solving the next biggest VC mystery:  How can LPs actually get in to the next Sequioa and Kleiner funds?

Link: Burnham's Beat: Just How Much Did VCs Pocket On Google?.

Link: NY1: Top Stories.

A New York Times poll released Wednesday morning finds the mayor's approval rating has reached 50 percent – his highest level ever – though similar to improved numbers seen in other recent polls.

I just want to point out that, on June 13, 2003, Bloomberg had a 24% approval rating--the lowest rating since the NYT started taking polls in the first place.  It just goes to further prove my theory:

Self-made billionaires who couldn't give a crap what anyone thinks who have the business savvy to make tough decisions with the long term in mind make great mayors.

Moving injury, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

TV 1 Toe 0

Brooklyn sky, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

Nice touch.

Empty apt, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

Did I mention I hate moving?

Fuze, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

This stuff is really good.

Lug this monstrosity back to Brooklyn?, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

Screw it... Good time to buy a flat screen, don't you think?

Spoiled Dog, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

Mom warms the dog's food on the stove. Me? I got a cold chicken cutlet sandwich. You tell me who rates around here.

I went to the New York Venture Summit this morning and someone mentioned to me, for the second time in a couple of days that since I'm the analyst at Union Square Ventures, I must be "doing all the work."  Its always meant jokingly, and often that's probably true at different firms, but ever since I joined USV, its been a real surprise how collaborative the effort has been.  Brad and Fred really roll up their sleeves--to the point where I probably have  a pretty visceral reaction to that insinuation, even though its probably meant jokingly.  These guys really get into the nuts and bolts of every deal... no outsourcing the due diligence to the analysts.   I know a lot of firms probably say that, but here its really true.  That's it... that's all I have for today.  Its quite busy here... for all of us.

It was really hot yesterday.

I was in a new place.

I didn't have a Mustang Convertible.

I still haven't closed on my apartment yet, and it seems like whatever can go wrong with this close will go wrong.

Reminds me of U-Turn, with Sean Penn, and that's my movie this week.  Directed by Oliver Stone, U-Turn takes Murphy's Law to new heights (or depths).  Fingers cut off by a loanshark, car broken down, Sean Penn finds himself in a one horse town in the Arizona desert.  If that's not bad enough, he gets mixed up with the most backwards, twisted collection of characters I think I've seen in any movie not named House of 1000 Corpses.  Billy Bob Thorton plays a car mechanic that gets dirtier more ornery with every piece he rips off of Penn's 64 1/2 Mustang.  Jennifer Lopez gives new definition to the phrase, "Don't get involved with a crazy hot chic who may or may not be having an inappropriate relationship with her father in Arizona after a loanshark cuts off two of your fingers."   Ok, so that's not an often-used phrase, I'll admit, but it should be, because its just a bad idea.

Things in U-Turn just get from bad, to worse, to ugly, to whatever's much worse than bad, worse, and ugly combined.   Great movie... not so great for the whole family to watch.

Rules, originally uploaded by ceonyc.

No speedskating.

No martinis.



This park sucks.