Very funny for those of us with scars from the last tech bubble.

I haven’t watched the video yet, so I am not commenting on that until I get the chance to see it.

*Edit* I watched the video.  It’s priceless.

One of the benefits of living and working in DC is that I now know a lot more about the layout of our nation’s capital and the surrounding area. So, for example, in Live Free or Die Hard, when I see metro trains that say “MTA”, I know that they’re not Washington’s Metro, whose logo is a big M.

Also, when I see cars driving through various streets, and see very tall skyscrapers, I know that that particular scene is also not shot in DC. I couldn’t say that every scene in “DC” was faked, but most of them were, or at least looked fake, which is probably worse.

It was a fun movie, but the over-the-top-ness of the heroic survival was fairly ridiculous, even for a movie named “Die Hard”. Also, the plot was essentially a recycling of the plot of Die Hard With a Vengeance. Mac-guy Justin Long handled himself pretty well, all things considered.

You know how sometimes you forget to do something, and then you forget that you forgot, and then you feel bad that you forgot and it just seems awkward…

Well, I wrote this just before Thanksgiving. Since it’s still the holiday season, it’s still worth saying:

• I want to thank Pamela Slim, and J Timothy King for helping inspire me to try something new
• I want to thank Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok from Marginal Revolution for providing the economic justification to try something new
• I want to thank all the good people at the Sunlight Foundation for helping introduce me to non-profits, the inner workings of democracy and most of all, their interesting points of view.
• I want to thank my wife and kids for putting up with selling the house and moving and all the strange new things that come along with it.
• I want to thank all my wife’s friends for being incredibly helpful and supportive when she was trying to get the house ready.