Archives / October, 2006

A different take on the Google/YouTube deal

My partner Chris sent the following around.  Its a more lighthearted way of looking at the Google/YouTube deal… YouTube is currently “delivering” 100,000,000 videos/day.  I’m by no means a prolific consumer of YouTube content, but I’m going to guess that the average length of a YouTube video is about 1.5 minutes. That translates into 150,000,000 minutes wasted (or 2,500,000 hours) wasted each and every day watching YouTube videos (it would be interesting to know how many uniques that translates into). Assuming a 40 hour work week and 50 work weeks per year (2,000 work hours/yr/person), that means that there are 1,250 “man-years” wasted watching YouTube videos–that’s each and every day.  And people say that technology hasn’t boosted productivity… I didn’t…

Are you in Boulder on the 19th?

The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art puts on a fantastic (and very fun) art auction every year.  My wife, Greeley, and I have been regulars for several years and always have a great time. This year Greeley is even more involved as the event chair (putting on an art auction is an incredible amount of work!).  I’m playing a more peripheral role as the stand-in event photographer (the regular event photographer is out of the country, so with the qualification of owning a brand new digital SLR camera – a birthday present from Greeley – the photo duties are falling to me). Here’s the event flier (see link below).  If you’re around Boulder on October 19th, I’d highly recommend coming…

Quote of the day

“Successful people spend the majority of their time on major things. Unsuccessful people spend the majority of their time on minor things.” Relayed to me by my good friend Chris, who is dutifully following this advice…