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Uncle Drew. Belongs in the hall of classic hoops-related commercials. 

Humbling.

The largest single-shot photo of Earth ever taken.

(via This 121-Megapixel Photo of Earth Will Make Your Jaw Drop)

Great video from P&G about moms. I am blessed to have the best mom in the world who has always supported and loved me. Thanks, mom. Love you.

Caine’s Arcade. Awesome. Inspiring.

Donate to the Caine’s Arcade scholarship fund: http://cainesarcade.com/

Music is powerful. “I feel the band of love … of dreams.”

Bon Iver at AIR Studios.

Startup lessons on the wall at the office.

Love this … bravo, Chrysler.

8-bit MJ. Awesome.

Last Friday, at 5:45 am while catching a flight up to San Francisco for the TechCrunch/August Capital shindig, I clumsily left my MacBook Air in the TSA security bin. I didn’t realize this until about two hours later when I went to get my computer to work on the train. 

Completely panicked, I called and left numerous messages with TSA, had my wife go to the airport, and pretty much bummed around all day in a state of shock. I re-played every event and decision, wondering how I could be so forgetful. I also thought about everything I hadn’t backed-up. Family photos, work, financial records, and more. Not only that, I had looked at anti-theft services like Prey multiple times, but hadn’t installed it, thinking, “It’ll never happen to me.”

Well, it happened. Fortunately, a honest TSA person picked up my laptop from the bin (wish I knew who it was… I am so thankful), immediately logged it, sent it to LAX TSA lost-and-found, and I was reuinited with my MacBook Air today.

So, to those who were like me, here’s my advice.

  • Back-up everything (frequently)… preferably to a cloud service, but at least to an external drive
  • Make sure everything is password protected
  • Put some kind of identifying mark on your computer (a case, sticker, etc), as TSA kept asking me if there was a unique identifier on my computer
  • Install anti-theft software

Oh, and don’t complain about TSA at the airport again.