“I’d Rather be Reading Jane Austen”
Archive for June, 2008
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June 13th, 2008Rosebud….
June 7th, 2008We’ve had the movie Citizen Kane at our house for quite some time, now. I figured it was finally time to watch it last night and though I knew that this film revolutionized the way that movies are filmed and written — I wasn’t expecting anything new or exciting.
I feel like I’ve always been jaded towards the classic movies — but then when I actually sit down to watch them (Casablanca, The Great Escape, etc.) I find that they’re still really good films. The same holds true with Citizen Kane, more-so than any other movie.
It reminded me a lot of Ayn Rand’s novels — and you could possibly argue that it even touched on Objectivism with Mr. Kane’s self-indulgence and motivation to achieve success. All told, though, the film was excellent and I was very impressed.
For those that haven’t seen it, I would definitely suggest adding it to your Queue. Heck, I’m even considering watching it again before I send it back.
Oh yeah.. and that whole Rosebud thing… I loved it!
$31,000 per minute
June 6th, 2008According to CNet, for every minute that Amazon is down globally — it would cost them approximately $31,000 in sales. This is based off their yearly revenue numbers from last year.
That being said, Amazon has been down in the US since 10:30 am PST (about 1 hour and 12 minutes at the time of this posting). Assuming that this was a global outage, this would cost Amazon about $2.2MM already.
Considering it’s only the US, let’s just cut that number in half.. even so.
