Archive for September, 2011

My Ninja, Please! 9.14.11: Drunken Kung-Fu Moose

Drunken Moose-Fist

In a surprise event that capitvated a nation, a moose was spotted using the drunken Kung-Fu technique somewhere near Stockholm, Sweden, recently. Originally thought to have studied in the Wang-Chin school, the moose’s origins became unclear late Tuesday night when a spokesperson from the school denied ever training the moose.

"Last animal student was a rat," said 62 year-old PR man Hamato Yoshi, "but there’s no telling who else he may have trained."

Further doubt was cast on the situation when it was reported that the moose had been eating fermented apples from someone’s backyard and was actually stuck in the tree, as opposed to using it for stealth reasons as initially believed. While practitioners of Zui Quan, or Drunken Fist, are reputed for their imitation of intoxication, they are rarely ever actually drunk. Quoted as saying in between hiccups, "Water floats, but also capsizes boats," the moose appeared undoubtedly drunk.

The large deer-relative had to be helped from the tree by rescuers and was given a period of a few days to sober up. As of right now, the moose has not been charged with any crime.

.::original story

email

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 14th, 2011
at 11:37am by Black Ock


Categories: myninjaplease,10th dan

Comments: No comments


Keng on Incorporation

Image source

Entrepreneurs will need to incorporate, so here are some important steps that most people ignore when first starting out.

.::Listen to the podcast::

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 13th, 2011
at 11:15am by mnp


Categories: entrepreneurship

Comments: No comments


What to do with an English Major

YouTube Preview Image

From the 2004 Broadway musical, Avenue Q. Prudent advice for a prudish economy.

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 13th, 2011
at 10:22am by Black Ock


Categories: youtube

Comments: No comments


Saturn Fly-By

5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.

Animated from thousands of still photographs, this virtual fly-by is a preview of an IMAX film in the works. Each image comes from the Cassini-Huygens Orbiter, launched in conjunction with a Titan probe of the same name in 1997 and transmitting stunning visuals since 2004. This one goes out to all of our space-ninjas; it’s far more difficult to hear or see a ninja coming in space, btw.

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 13th, 2011
at 8:59am by Black Ock


Categories: robots,film,science,space

Comments: No comments


Making Mistakes Impossible

Image source

.::Read more::

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 12th, 2011
at 8:34am by mnp


Categories: myninjaplease

Comments: No comments


FailCon 2011 Warm Up

If you wondered how people win, they failed to get there. FailCon is bringing together 20 speakers and a series of workshops to study the failure process. Happening October 24th, 9:00a - 6:00p at Hotel Kabuki, SF, it is bringing to light the often tabooed use of the term failure.

As an entrepreneur, you will inevitably encounter failure; it is overcoming it that is the biggest challenge. At FailCon, we help you do just that. Join founders and partners from MySpace, Uber, Cuil, Airbnb, Khosla Ventures, MindJolt, KISSmetrics, PBworks, Second Life, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and more as share advice on how to reach success.

Past ninja speaker from 2010 and teacher legend, Steve Blank, offers some insight about start-up customer development and the role of the pivot (from 30 years of experience mind you):

YouTube Preview Image

So why attend a conference about failing as opposed to winning? Because it is refreshing to see the leaders of the tech world to talk about their bumpy path as opposed to a course that just happened exactly as it was supposed to (does that happen at all?).

MNP will definitely be checking out The Failure of Business Models and Negotiation - How To Not Fail At Getting Your Way. As you may or may not know, we embrace failure- if the resident ninja is seen with a broken computer in tote, you will know that they are failing to success and say what’s up! We hope to be able to learn from FailCon about………monetization- I know, outlandish right? Something that has eluded the ninjas in this part of the blogosphere…

Ed. note: Over the past five years, the look and feel of myninjaplease.com has been updated numerous times and for those that have stuck with us through our early days of coming off like a science project (no, really) and to where were at today, know that we have a long way to go! What better way then to continue on then to learn from the pitfalls en route to building something better the next time.

And when you’re ready to buy tickets to FailCon 2011, use the code, "my ninja" and receive 15% off!

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 11th, 2011
at 6:09pm by mnp


Categories: web,business,development,events,entrepreneurship,fail,innovation

Comments: No comments


Nike does Back to the Future

YouTube Preview Image

I bet you they WON’T get you laid, though.

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 9th, 2011
at 3:25pm by Black Ock

Tagged with , , , ,


Categories: too good to be true,clothes,gear

Comments: No comments


If talking is one thing, and conversation another, then what is chat?

In the early days of the internet, chatting was something that happened between strangers. "Wanna cyber?" millions of people asked, and millions answered: Yes! On AOL—as of 1994, the most popular internet service provider in the US—half the member-created chat rooms were for sex. AOL also launched the first mass IM interface, which was where the real action happened. Each conversation appeared as a flat, white square on your screen—it was like having sex on a tiled floor. But at least it was someone else’s floor. Signing off was like walking out of a public bathroom. #read Chathexis at n+1

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 9th, 2011
at 12:20pm by Black Ock


Categories: the column

Comments: No comments


Ancestral Bridge?

A pair of fossils from a South African cave have scientists both excited and puzzled. Scientists say the fossils — an adult female and a juvenile — could be the long-sought transition between ape-like ancestors and the first humans.

The bones belong to creatures related to the famous Lucy fossil found in Ethiopia in the 1970s, but their owners lived more recently — just 2 million years ago.

The reason for the excitement? Ask anthropologists what they dream about, and many will tell you it’s the fossil of the last pre-human ancestor that led directly to us. Nobody’s found it, and any who claim to usually get publicly whacked by their peers #Read the story

Post to Twitter Post to Facebook

Posted: September 9th, 2011
at 10:09am by Black Ock


Categories: myninjaplease,9th dan,science,reading is fun-damental

Comments: No comments