Wow. Nothing makes a fellow happier than a two-in-one. Going back to the days of the Original Saturday Nite Live with the trademark lampoonery of ‘It’s a Floor Wax. It’s a Desert Topping…’ there is something incredibly satisfying about getting two-two-two thingamajigs for the price of one. And well having hated on the iPhone for some time now – as in dropped calls or just the sheer laughableness of trying to use one in Manhattan, it’s nice to spread some pro iPhone love.
And in this case it is for peripherals make Griffin. So while in New York my power ran down nearly every day, which was nice in one sense as I was quite simply not available. I also recently broke my iPhone car lighter charger so I was in the market for a new one and found this – the Griffin PowerJolt Reserve – which is just awesome in so many ways.
The Radness that is the Power Jolt Reserve
-It charges at about 2x the speed of a normal car lighter charger.
-It is a charger AND a battery pack.
-And the part that I found just plain neat – which I’m sure is not that technologically astounding – is that when you plug the battery pack into the iPhone – it not only powers the iPhone but it transfers the power from the Pack into the battery. To wit, if you are in the red with your iPhone but your battery pack is charged, it transfers the juice from the pack into the iPhone. How rad is that?!
A little overwrought with the backing track but exciting they got it done. And while Colin Farrell does not seem to ‘fit’ with Messrs. Depp, Ledger and Waits – I will gladly take an afternoon and go have a wonderful adventure with this latest Terry Gilliam joint.
The blogosphere is certainly abuzz right now with the news out of CBS (via PaidContent.org) that there may be more value in online that in live TV. While there are some things that rub me the wrong way, getting the ad dollars to merely move over online is NOT the answer, the fact that a research guy from a major network dared to say that online might be more valuable is incredibly powerful. It suggests that the somewhat dodgy digital future of content may be getting less dodgy. Go CBS Research guy David Poltrack – Go!
Capture via twitter from Mr. Andersen himself. Here is some Kurt meets Stephen love. I especially love the premise that the crises are causing a reset. It is the best case scenario that we find true value and our values post crises. That is the most positive way to view our world today.
Here they are in their matching gray suits, blue shirts and red ties (with patterns).
This past Thursday I flew to San Francisco with Ms. Jacquelyn Richey to see my brother-in-law accept his appointment as a chair in Thoracic Oncology at UCSF. Alongside the professional and personal honorifics bestowed on Dr. Thierry Jahan there was genuine love, admiration and respect all on ample display. And just when a sublime evening seemingly could not get better – the Mezzo-Soprano Zheng Cao came forward to give a surprise performance.
What is remarkable, notable and other-worldly about this performance, aside from it happening to fall on her birthday, is that Ms. Cao’s vocal pyrotechnics were made possible due to her being treated by Dr. David Larson using a technique called the cyberknife, something that is so impossibly sci-fi as to not be believed. But, the point being that between the two of these doctors they saved this woman’s vocal chords. And by saving her vocal chords – we all get to hear this…
I recently had the good fortune of traveling to Washington, DC to see my friend and colleague Ben Olander present, along with his business partner, Tomas Apodaca, their work from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ben and Tomas had been invited to DC by Bill Strassberger, the Chief of Public Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs at the State Department.
Having known Ben for years and heard of his work but never quite understood exactly what he was doing, when I heard that he would be presenting I leaped at the chance. And it was well worth it. In addition to meeting one Evagelia Touvalareas who is doing her own powerful work with women in Saudi Arabia seeing Small Power’s work on a big screen with an audience of between 70 to 100 people really drove home the powerful message of their work.
After about 20 to 30 minutes of conversation and a screening of the TV show that smallpower has created, the crowd rushed up to greet Ben and in what has to be one of the great summary lines of all time, the gentleman in this picture applauded my friend by saying, “You are the Aaron Spelling of the Congo.”
But you don’t have to just take my word for it – surf on over to smallpower.org to read the inspirational and fantastic tales of how to create a tv series of warmth and honesty in one of the world’s most horrific (and forgotten) warzones.
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