This is a Monster Hitman that I got ant a Yelp! event months ago. I needed a boost for my run. Do you know what it says on the side?
“CAUTION POTENT: LIMIT INTAKE TO MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE EVERY 4 HOURS. DO NOT COMBINE WITH OTHER CAFFEINATED PRODUCTS. TOO MUCH CAFFEINE MAY CAUSE NERVOUSNESS, IRRITABILITY, SLEEPLESSNESS, AND OCCASIONALLY RAPID HEARTBEAT. ALSO: AWESOMENESS, SUPER FUN TIMES, SUPER-HUMAN ENDURANCE, DROP-DEAD SEXY ABDOMINAL MUSCLES, PORN-WORTHY ENDOWMENT, INFINITE WEALTH, AND ANÂ IRRESISTIBLEÂ CRAVING FOR DINOSAUR BARBECUE BECAUSE THAT ISH IS THE BEST EVER AND YOU KNOW IT.”
I randomly stumbled across what has to be one of the coolest new websites around -- animoto. This site takes your pictures and whatever music you want and makes an amazing video from them. One of the coolest behind the scenes aspects of the site is that they’ve used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale their business. If only Google App Engine had a service for background processing. Here is one I created from my cruise last month:
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Check out this quick 60 second explanation of how the system works. Oh, and let’s talk about how hot Tom Clifton (the guy in the below video) is… damn hipsters (check out this picture if you don’t think he is hipster enough.
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Here is a video of Tom talking about the service at more length:
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Finally, the guys that work there seem to be pretty geeky, and their blogs are totally worth reading, even if you do think Ruby is freakin strange.

