Monday, April 02, 2007

An interview with Phil

Okay... so this is the interview with Phil. Great stuff. I find the whole situation pretty inspiring overall... and would welcome thoughts and reactions. Enjoy!

Vote Different

Alright... so here's the ad, in case you missed it. My post below this provides some more background on why I'm posting this. It's interesting and fairly well done. I think the best thing about this little webhack is that it's provocative... it makes me think, and want to talk to people about who's running... and in that way, I think it's a good thing.

Things that make me happy

Happy April everybody!

The month is off to a good start, as Lyndsey and I had a very restful weekend and I'm pumped to get down to work today. Also, having completed a generally successful conference last week, I'm now ready to get down to some non-conference-related work including promoting the release of my company's new book project (more details to follow)... but for now I'll just say that pre-orders are possible on Amazon!

In other interesting news to start the month, I learned on Friday that I know the guy who created the Hillary 1984 ad. Okay, so if you're not a super-crazy political junkie who bounces around the political blogs a few times a week... you might not have caught the thing, but it has received over 3 million hits on You Tube, so I know some of you must have.

Phil, the creator, worked with me for a little while at KaBOOM!, and was technically on our kickball team (although, like a number of players on our kickball team, I don't think Phil actually played any kickball. At one point he claimed he was allergic to grass). I'll post both the video he created and an interview later today, but I was pretty psyched to hear about this. Mainly, I was psyched because the ad that caused such as stir struck me from the get-go as a smart and well done hack... nice to know that the guy behind it is a pretty down-to-earth, reasonable, smart dude.

Okay, that's all for now. I'm off to do that whole digging into work thing.

+ John