Archive for December, 2006

Best Christmas Video Evar!!!

I’ve been so busy it’s been hard to get into the Christmas spirit. I’ve been so busy I’ve missed meals. But, most tragically of all, I’ve been so busy I haven’t watched Ze Frank in weeks.

Tragic.

However today I decided to re-prioritize and watch the show. And today’s show was alright, but it wasn’t quite “RTFEDD” enough for me. So I went back and watched last Friday’s show. It wasn’t great, but it was alright. Alright enough for me to watch all of this week’s shows as well (I’m a little OCD, and leaving ‘blanks’ just bugs me).

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Hah, Most Newbie CEO of 2006

As part of his 2006 wrap-up, Rick Segal (one of our VC’s) names me the “Most Newbie CEO of 2006“:

Most newbie CEO Award: Jeremy Wright, b5 Media

When Brightspark Ventures and JLA did the b5 investment, we talked a bunch about Jeremy as the CEO.  We decided that we were going give Jeremy the shot and set our expectations accordingly. What followed has been some oops, ouch (bet that hurt) and yowsa but to our extreme delight, Jeremy rocks.  In terms of personal growth, he has been amazing. In terms of the company, ahead of plan, below expenses are the summary points.  The VC community talks a bunch about “the people” and “investing in people”.  Jeremy is a pleasure to work with and simply reaffirms the notion that, in the end, it is all about the people.

I’m totally sure this is a compliment. I am, after all, a new CEO. Just that in gamerspeak newbie means someone incredibly naive who thinks he can do anything, asks others for help, tries things that should be impossible, doesn’t know all the rules, sometimes steps on people’s toes and…

Oh, wait…

Okay, newbie CEO it is ;-) I’ll take it not as “too stupid to know better” but more as “too much energy to sit still long enough to know better, but learns well enough given his energy levels”. It’s like in school when I got marks like “A-, would have been a B+ but he was just so darn cute”.

Okay, I didn’t get those kinds of notes. They were more like “B+, would have been an A- if he’d only clean his @Q#@#ing desk”, heh.

Anyways, thanks Rick! And here’s to newbie CEO’s who work their asses off, learn on their feet and don’t know the meaning of “impossible”!

5 Secrets About Me (Or: Damnit, Y'all Suck!) (Or or: I've Been Tagged, Let's See Who's Next)

Aaron, you truly freaking suck ;-)

Seriously. I thought I almost outran this little meme. Like a dozen people I know missed me. Which made me oh so grateful. In secret I kinda wanted to be tagged (in that “oh, the murderer left his fingerprint as a 10′ x 10′ 3D representation in the middle of the room and wants to get caught” kind of way). Not really. But kinda. Only because I don’t really have many secrets. I mean, I talk too much so I tell offhanded things to different people. So unless you hang around me (a lot) most secrets I say are probably secrets.

By the same token, even if you only hang around me a little bit you’ll probably know at least 1 of these. Mad props to anyone who actually knew all 5 ;-)

Oh, and before I do, the rules state that the 5 people I tag at the end of this need to tag 5 others.

My 5 Secrets

1. I used to be a youth pastor. 2. I was in the army. As a summer job. I’m now blacklisted. 3. I’m an introvert. In fact, I’m so completely introverted that sometimes before speaking I need to do jumping jacks and slap myself around (in the face) to get ready. Sure I still enjoy people and sometimes crowds, but I often need to “recharge”. 4. I have the weirdest sense of humor. Maybe not a secret. But some people honestly think I’m either an idiot or mentally retarded. Someone I met for the first time a week ago honestly thinks I’m a freak because I was all introverted at this party except when I was making weird, off-the-wall statements. Btw, how would you charade Robert Downey Jr.? 5. I have secret career aspirations. They include being a taxi driver, waiter, bouncer, pizza delivery guy and a weather girl.

Some bonus secrets that I’m also stealing from others?

Like Aaron, I tend to attract gay men. Except it’s in San Francisco for me. On the positive, flip-side, I don’t attract San Francisco women. At all.

Like Brian, I played high school sports. Mine was volleyball. My problem was that my school (Ecole Secondaire Le Caron) rocked the province in volleyball (most years taking home more than half the first-places). So I was relegated to intramural sports. Which were often more competitive anyways. I was knocked my gym teacher unconscious with a spike.

Like Robert, I’ve struggled with nose picking my entire life. I’m seeking psychiatric help on this.

Who’M I Tagging?

Good question. The only reason I really participate in these things (besides shamefully revealing parts of myself and showing off my social ineptitudes) is to say howdy to folk I haven’t talked to in awhile.

So, I’m tagging… Rob from BusinessPundit (yeah, you joined a competing blog network, but I won’t hold that against you), Shel Israel (it has been too long since we’ve talked… I’m coming to the valley in Jan, can we do supper?), Ingrid Diaz (okay, we’ve talked lately, but we don’t talk ENOUGH!), Dan Wilt (sorry I’m gone buddy…. and, yes, Jeff, if you had a blog I’d tag you too because it’s also been too long! … btw Jeff, F.E.A.R. isn’t the same without you :( …) and finally… I’m tagging me (yep, you heard that right. We need to spend some real quality time together without distractions mate, so get some work done and let’s go for a walk tonight!).

Huzzah! (I’ve taught Evan to say this…There’s nothing cuter than a 3-year-old yelling “Huzzah!” with a fist held high in the air! Haha!)

Empty Inbox!

Few! For probably the first time since funding, hell maybe the first time since the summer, my inbox is empty.

This, of course, means that if you haven’t received a response to an email that you probably should have received a response to, it somehow got lost in transit.

Gawd it feels good to have an empty inbox, even if it’s only for… okay, damn, 3 more emails. But still!

Xbox Live Gamertag

I’ve added my Xbox Live Gamercard to the sidebar of the blog. Since mentioning in passing that I played I’ve had a bunch of folk ask for it. So there it is.

Earth-shattering news I know. I’m damned lucky it didn’t reverse the polarity of the earth’s gravitational field.