Author: Joel Gross
Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.
Offensive Jokes You Can Never Repeat To Anyone
I found a fun thread on Reddit with jokes that you should never repeat to anyone. Here are a few that are less offensive (and yes, I realize these are all still highly offensive!):
- Why did Princess Di cross the road?” She wasn’t wearing her seatbelt
- How do you know Princess Di had dandruff? When she crashed, they found her Head & Shoulders on the dashboard…
- What do you call a train full of toffee?
Real Life as an MMORPG
Around 3 years ago, I wrote a blog post about World of Warcraft vs Real Life. I have been thinking about this topic of real life as an mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game for those of you non-nerds) more recently.
It’s been roughly 6 years now since I played serious computer games and got started with “Real Life”.… read more “Real Life as an MMORPG”
What Are Your Friends Professions?
A very important question to ask yourself is what are the professions of your friends? Study after study has shown that who your friends are, what they do for a living, and what their habits are will have an enormous influence over you and your behaviors.
Here is a list of some of my friends professions:
- Law firm owner
- High end design firm owner
- Tutoring firm owner
- Google account executive
- Finance professional
- Hippy semi-pro skier
- Struggling Actor
- Waitress
- Maid service owner
- International business consultant
- Iranian pastry shop owners son
- CFO / accountant
- COO / recruiter
- Sales Director
- Drunk oil rigger worker
- Aerospace engineer
- F-16 Fighter pilot
- Dentist
- Affiliate website entrepreneur
- Financial marketing exec
- Nursing services firm owners son
Who are your friends and what are their professions?… read more “What Are Your Friends Professions?”
Recursive Functions in Python
I spent the weekend learning more about Python on Udacity.com. I went through Unit 6 which was all about recursive procedures in Python.
A recursive function is basically a function that calls itself. An example of this would be:
def factorial(n):
if n == 0:
return 1
else:
return n * factorial(n - 1)
Recursion is great because it allows you to write code that is much simpler and cleaner than if you had to write the same code using if/while procedures.
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This article makes me want to buy bit coins.
Jurassic Park IMAX 3D
I just saw Jurassic Park IMAX 3D and loved it. The movie conversion from 2d to 3d was very thorough and well done. Made a great old movie fun and new again. Go see it!
Frustrating Negotiations
I have been involved in a number of very frustrating negotiations lately:
- I worked with a business to sublease their office space and provided forward in the best intents. They ended up pulling the rug out from under me when a bigger tenant came by… but first they led me on for a month and a half.
Top 3 Ranking of Online Education Providers
- Udacity.com – limited number of classes but they have the best platform and the best put together lessons.
- Codecademy.com – also a limited number of classes but solid platform and good hands on learning.
- Ocw.mit.edu – MIT’s open courseware has tons of courses but since they are just videos of the courses taught to students it doesnt work very well.
Lead Tracking Phone System – Calltask.com
I have built a nice publicly available tool for business owners to track lead phone calls. You can go and check it out at calltask.com. The concept is that you can use any device or any phone line and have your call recorded in full and mark where the lead came from (your website, your direct mail, your business cards, etc), as well as leave comments or ratings on each call. … read more “Lead Tracking Phone System – Calltask.com”