“Here’s the thing that makes life so interesting. The theory of evolution claims that “only the strong shall survive”. Maybe so, maybe so.

But the theory of competition says, “just because they’re the strong doesn’t mean they can’t get their asses kicked”.

That’s right. See, what every long shot, come from behind, underdog will tell ya is this: the other guy may in fact be the favorite, the odds may be stacked against you. Fair enough. But what the odds don’t know is, this isn’t a math test. This is a completely different kind of test. One where passion, has a funny way of trumping logic.

So before you step up to the starting line, before the whistle blows, and the clocks start ticking just remember: out here the results don’t always add up. No matter what the stats may say and the experts may think and the commentators may have predicted, when the race is on, all bets are off.

Don’t be surprised be if someone decides to flip the script and take a pass on yelling “Uncle”. And then suddenly as the old saying goes, “WE’VE GOT OURSELVES A GAME”.”

We Are Young – FUN

Hat-Tip to @Kathy_Petras for this one.

Carry On – FUN

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“When you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

I’ll Be Waiting – Adele

My dad turned 70 this year and in celebration my oldest brother, Robin, had his son record this cutness filled video. 

This is the final edited version that ACbert and I helped a friend do for the 48 Hour NYC Film Festival, which I talked about before. Our role was to play a Hollywood power couple with a twist. Don’t blink or else you’ll miss our 10 seconds on the big screen .

Below is the tralier for an upcoming documentry airing on Bloomberg TV starting September 13th at 9pm that follows the behind-the-scense progress of ten tech companies here in NYC, including Red Rover. Click here to read the full story from TechCrunch.

It’ll be interesting to watch how each company is positioned as our personalities and business styles were all over the place. I suspect our Red Rover crew will be seen as the serious, enterprise company dealing with big money coming in and out.

Though I was interviewed and on camera a lot, I’m not sure how much I’ll be seen during the show as Kevin is Red Rover’s CEO. I did however have my share of practical jokes that were caught on camera, so we’ll see.

8/8/11 UPDATE: Bloomberg just launched their website for the show.

Ripple by Greatful Dead (Cover)

Ripple by Grateful Dead (Original)

K´naan – Wavin’ Flag

Rarely does a commercial engage my creative senses the way the FAGE (fa-yeh) Yogurt commercial below does.

“Plain was the same as it ever was the same.
Plainly plain, samely same…
But then someone lit the flame.
Plain rode away on lion’s mane.
Where plain met fruits with strangely names.
Such wonderful things they did contain.
A shot of life to a hungry vein.
The captive beast who broke the chain.
And there upon that fruited plane,
is where plain became what plain became.
So much more than more than plain.
Plain will never be the same.”

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