Lose the Chip on your shoulder, John.

When it comes to matters of future presidential policies, I am a strong proponent of some as well as firmly against others, stemming from both camps.

Also, I don't like Roger Ebert. He's annoying and smug.

As ridiculous as it is, Ebert's commentary is spot on. McCain definitely came off as an a-hole for all 90 mins Friday night. Either he's a jerk, or has terrible people skills / manners. Either way it didn't get him closer to my vote.

Read the commentary.

It's sad that this was the first thing significant enough to get me writing again since the birth of my daughter. It just struck a big chord.

-A

The Proudest Moment of My Life.

UPDATE: Isa' now has her own blog. IsabellaMarieBucci.blogspot.com


I think have had my hand in a lot of cookie jar's in my 27 years. I have closed a lot of deals, climbed a lot of proverbial mountains and taken the podium enough times to be pretty happy with my stat's at this point. I hate to sound smug, but if you asked me I would say that a lot of hard work has paid off well over the years.

Well none of it even comes close to the moment you watch your child enter the world and share it with the woman you love. I think all things leading up to that point were just minor blips on the radar. This is where the real adventure begins.



Perspective is a funny thing sometimes.

At 8:05pm yesterday Tara and I gave birth to our first daughter Isabella Marie. Shes so beautiful & perfect and its hard to even describe the experience with words. The best I can do at this point is just to say I am completely blown away.


Staying true to form, we had a wild time over the 12 hours of labor. Yes a wild time definitely includes billy bob teeth, pirate hats and one liners that seemed to never end.

See All 70 pics in Chronological order with commentary.

Mom, Baby and I are resting comfortably at UPENN until Monday night. We look forward to seeing everyone soon.

Booch

its on like donkey kong..... Baby time

been here since 8am- its now 6:22, were delirious, but the drugs have kicked in and were having fun as usual. More to come



Kobe!

Oh Hell No! - Inspired Customer Feedback

Yeah I was smiling on the inside after this one.....

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From:
Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Subject: RevZilla Customer Service Inquiry - Other
To: xxxx@revzilla.com

A customer service inquiry has been submitted:

Name
chris fxxxxx
Email
gxxxxx@myway.com
Phone
5105xxxxxx

Message

Oh hell no! I ordered yesterday after 2pm pacific time and received my product @11am this morning. now thats what i call better than next day delivery. I was expecting the package to be something i ordered months ago from another company. I could hardly have got it faster if i had shopped for it locally (i did by the way and they dont carry the product yet, its too new I guess). any way thanks a lot. I read a review from one of your customers saying they were delighted to have received their product next day but i would have never believed i would have received mine next day.

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Booyah. Son.

Yelp is a completely ego driven time sink. I love it.

My Yelp career began about a month ago. It ended today.

For those of you who were around for Watergate.. Yelp is like Mypace + Wikipedia + the Yellow Pages geared toward an artsy, cultured, hipster crowd. There are way to many used record stores reviewed on there for their primary user to be anything different.

In all honesty though, from what I saw, a myriad of different type folks are on Yelp proliferating themselves, and showcasing their writing chops or lack thereof.



I originally got on to leave a good review for my friend bill who owns a coffee shop down the street from RevZilla. I left my review, mentioned the coffee, service and fare coupled with a dynamite Mr. T drop in that I thought was funny.

Yelp was cool... then I realized that people were tagging my breif blurb as "funny", "cool" etc.... than I got a compliment tag... Yelp became like the crazy blog I had in college, only now I had an audience built in and could tell my stories which aren't fit for this blog based upon the nationwide venues that they occurred at. At that point yelp went from cool to awesome - granted your someone who likes to tell a good story or two for no other reason than to get a good laugh.

So for about a month when I was bored I scribed a story or two and ended up writing about 9 restaurant / bar reviews which spawned a handful of random feedback.

Well today I woke up to handful of messages and much to my surprise my review of the House of Chen, one of our favorite "late nite" philly food spots, was the "review of the day" and my goofy mug was plastered on the front page for Philadelphia. Sweet.

So now, after realizing that witty writing can actually get noticed on a grander scale, you would think I would be more inclined to build out my stable of "stories" further... but nah the excitement has peaked and the novelty has waned... back to driving incremental sales and tracking cohort analyses for RevZilla full time....

Kudos to yelp though. Great site, solid design, smart functionality & usability scheme. Well done, sir. Well done.

Click to see my HOC review.

Booch

Hilarious November Rain Breakdown

This has nothing to do with anything relating to marketing or Revzilla.com (which is still killing it btw)

Someone took the time to breakdown the classic 9 minute GNR video for November Rain and it is hilarious. Aside from the fact that they are my favorite band of all time, this post is completely irrelevant to my blog.... however this is my blog, and I will do what I want.

An Excerpt:

"Minute Five: A helicopter flies around Slash, giving us rockgodness from all angles, although possibly putting his cigarette out in the process, which is not a bad thing, as it will kill you. Smoking, I mean, not guitar solos. Although if any guitar solo could kill, it would be this one. You can tell Slash is a rock god because his stance is so wide he is almost doing the splits. "



Hilarious. The rest of the article is just as good if you remember anything about the video.

Click Here for the Article

Fire and Motion

"When I was an Israeli paratrooper a general stopped by to give us a little speech about strategy. In infantry battles, he told us, there is only one strategy: Fire and Motion. You move towards the enemy while firing your weapon. The firing forces him to keep his head down so he can't fire at you. (That's what the soldiers mean when they shout "cover me." It means, "fire at our enemy so he has to duck and can't fire at me while I run across this street, here." It works.) The motion allows you to conquer territory and get closer to your enemy, where your shots are much more likely to hit their target. If you're not moving, the enemy gets to decide what happens, which is not a good thing. If you're not firing, the enemy will fire at you, pinning you down."

See Fire and Motion Article

Great article relating to business operations vs growth and how critical it is to keep improving your product. If you aren't innovating you are losing ground.

And no, I was never an Israeli Paratrooper.

Anthony