February 2012
21 posts
“Just had a cookie binge. We have approximately 5 minutes of energy…before...”
– MWE
start-ups
Paul: Scored a PE gig, will be working on LBOs for tech start-ups.
Erin: Hah! We're on opposite ends of the spectrum! I'm doing start-up babies and you're doing start-up grandpas.
“Babe are you tryin’ to kill me? Cause I just died and gone to heaven.”
– MWE
happy to help
Michael: I'm happy to help in any way.
Erin: Thanks my babe!
Michael: I'm going to force you to accept my help. Because - you don't ask for my help, ever. I mean, you ask for my opinion and stuff, but now I'm going to forcibly help you.
“When I was getting to know you, every weekend you were like, “We’re...”
– MWE
cookie skills
Erin: Want me to make cookies?
Michael: *stares blankly*
Erin: It's a new skill I acquired.
“I only have time for two things in my life: you, and kicking ass.”
– MWE
peacocking
Erin: Beards are gross.
Michael: I used to have chin straps.
Erin: But on you, that's hot!
Michael: I was peacocking.
gross handbag
Erin: Gross handbag.
Elise: Do you even own a handbag? Nike sports bags don't count.
Erin: But they're NIKE!
Elise: I take that as a no.
Erin: And since Michael has them too I now have TWICE the amount of Nike sports bags!!!
Elise: Lol. But what do you take to work?
Erin: I am my own boss and always will be. I work in my Nike short shorts, my Nike sweatshirt, and my Nike sports bag!
valentines day gifts
Diane: I'm remembering his vday gift last year. It's pretty hilarious now that I think of it.
Erin: What was it?
Diane: It was a flower he plucked from outside my dorm, and a kitkat. Both of which were sitting in an amazon box which Paul discarded.
Erin: OMG that is TERRIBLE!
Diane: Pretty laughably terrible. I just said, "Oh, thank you!"
isle of man
Michael: Isle of Man?
Erin: There's a place called Isle of Man?
Michael: Apparently.
Erin: Whoah cool! On the Isle of Man there's a Port Erin!
Michael: Of course there would be, babe.
milkshakes and protein
Diane: *has been eating banana milkshakes all week*
Erin: Have you been getting enough protein?
Diane: Ahh I've been getting chicken. But yeah you're right, not enough protein I think. Hrm, there's some in the bananas which I just had.
Erin: Protein in bananas? Are these protein-fortified bananas?
Diane: Oops. No?
Erin: LOL. Diane!
Diane: I guess not?
Erin: How much do you weigh?
Diane: 124 lbs.
Erin: Ok, so there's 1g of protein in a banana. And you need about 124g of protein a day. Which means, to get your protein fix, you'd have to eat 124 bananas if you consider them a protein source.
Diane: Hahahaha! *making scrambled eggs now*
“You’re not working hard enough, you’re not pushing yourself. Your...”
– MWE
corn
Erin: Look at this website the corn industry made to promote high fructose corn syrup.
Jason: Did you say corn...or porn?
Erin: Corn! Like from fructose corn syrup!
Jason: You never know.
Chris: Well, one of them is better for you...and I'm sure it's porn.
“Our studies have shown that we could prevent about 82% of heart attacks, about...”
– Walter Willett
“I shoot a thought into the future and it flies like an arrow, through my...”
– Paul Simon
“I don’t think it’s particularly unfair. Per unwritten code of...”
– EMP
entrepreneurs east coast versus west coast
East Coast: Do you know how hard that is? You have to worry about patents. Then you have to worry about the FDA. And make sure you have an MD on you team and a PHD. And make everyone sign an NDA. You know what...you should just build an app.
West Coast: I love your idea! GO FOR IT.
girls in heels
Zubair: Look at that girl wearing heels to shop at Frys.
Erin: You know there are girls that wear heels everywhere - even to the gym?
Zubair: Yes, I like it. It makes it obvious which girls to avoid.
January 2012
5 posts
“They want marriage…but you just want a fling.”
– DJL
“You can change so little year after year that you don’t even recognize...”
– DJL
new clothes
Erin: I think I actually need new clothes.
Michael: Yeah, it's like every day you go, "Should I wear my dirty shirt...or my less dirty shirt?"
Erin: LOL!
Michael: The funny thing is, you think I'm joking.
sugar daddy
Erin: Thank you my sugar daddy!
Michael: I prefer to be called Papa de Azucar.
December 2011
7 posts
vegetables
Erin: Do you like your oatmeal?
Ella: Is oatmeal a vegetable?
Erin: No, it's starch.
Ella: It tastes like a vegetable.
Michael: You know, there are a variety of foods out there...
Ella: They all taste like vegetables.
investigate the bathroom
Ella: I'm going to investigate the bathroom.
Erin: What's to investigate?
Ella: Investigate means I'm going to look in the bathroom and see if something happened.
Pigeon
Erin: Awww, look at that poor pigeon! All squashed right in the middle of the intersection.
Michael: Man...what a dumb ass pigeon.
“I met up with a b-schooler the other day and it was such a waste of time. He was...”
– DJL
“May I have rice with extra rice?”
– ZA
I read up on the fitness industry and was...
All stats and data from here come from two reports, one was Mintel’s Exercise Research Trends from June 2010 and the other from the IDEA Fitness Journal.
Here are some numbers to think about.
1) 17% of children in America are obese (gasp)!
2) 70% of adults in America are either overweight or obese. 70%!
3) The number of overweight people in the world has now surpassed the number...
“When you live in San Francisco long enough you start talking about other people...”
– MWE
“When you go to the airport do they make you check your bags or let you carry...”
– BE referring to the bags under my eyes.
“I assume silence is…consent?”
– KG
November 2011
16 posts
“I think Steve Jobs was more on a quest for enlightenment. When he was young,...”
– Walter Isaacson
“I’m remaking the English language in my own image. A hundred years from...”
– MWE
“When was the last time you closed something huh? You couldn’t close a...”
– Boiler Room
buffet
Michael: Do you want to do a buffet? Our something more upscale?
Erin: Yeah, I'm not into buffets.
Michael: Oh I know you're not, every time you see something that looks remotely like a buffet you turn around and start to run away.
productive
Erin: Wow, this conversation was actually really productive!
Diane: That's because you weren't talking about Michael half the time.
“Tomorrow, early in the morning I’m going to disconnect the internet and...”
– BE
i have so much energy
Michael: I have so much energy from working out.
Erin: I thought you said you were tired?
Michael: Oh, I was just making conversation with those people. They expect people who work a lot to be tired. It makes them feel less bad about working less.
“The key to successfully startling someone, Mek says, is to do it in a way that...”
– BE
“I know where the line is…and I cross it every time.”
– MEK
“I don’t always do code reviews, but when I do I drink Dos Equis.”
– MEK
Vin Diesel does that.
Matt: How about team meeting on Sunday afternoon at 10:30am?
Erin: No!
Matt: Jack Dorsey does that. Don't you want to be like Jack Dorsey?
Erin: Not really.
Kevin: Columbiana does that.
Erin: Haha, nice try.
Matt: Vin Diesel does that - after his Sunday morning workout.
Mek: Will Smith does that - after Willow whips her hair back and forth.
“My inbox is like a really bloated 40 yr old woman who let herself go…but...”
– MEK
100%
Erin: All of them made it! Except one.
Mek: So what you're saying is, "I got 100%! Except for the one I got wrong."
October 2011
22 posts
“An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on...”
– Jeffrey Bussgang on Reid Hoffman