Body in Motion – Part 2

This is very cool. The piece is called “Born to Move.” A short documentary about Parkour and Freerunning. Starring Johnny Haze,a crew member from team MUNKIMOTION, who talks about crushing boundaries. ###

Body in Motion – Part 1

The Body in Motion song was in my head this morning, so I decided to dig up some inspirational videos. Let’s start with the Wiseguys. Here are the lyrics: Get up, get up put the body in motion Get up, get up put the body in motion Get up, get… more »

Lose the Phones: Evernote CEO Talks about his Company’s Culture

The Corner Office column by Adam Bryant that appears weekly in the Sunday New York Times, recently featured an interview with Phil Libin, chief executive of Evernote, a provider of note-taking and archiving technology, based in Mountain View, Calif. Mr. Libin provided many nondurables. For example: One of the things… more »

Breslin & the Inventing the Mets

There was an awesome story in the Sunday NY Times about Jimmy Breslin and the ’62 NY Mets. Breslin, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, talked about bad Mets teams. “Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets’ First Year,” was just released in e-Book… more »

Notable Quotables from Dorothy Sayers

I am reading The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Encounter with Dante By Barbara Reynolds, and I came across this awesome quote: You are, of course, perfectly right — I never do anything (I mean , I never write anything) that I don’t like writing, or about anything or anyone… more »