Here we see Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985 ... (more)
According to a recent survey by Vault.com, 46% of workers have engaged in office romance and 15% have dated their bosses. It is impossible to ignore the implications of love in the workplace, especially when the people involved are members of your team. As more and more people spend longer hours at...
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never
From Publishers Weekly It doesn't take Lancaster long to live up to her lengthy subtitle ("Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office"): in just one chapter, she gloats over cheating a...
The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a...
Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously. Need we say more? Written for reasonable risk takers and suburban dads who want to add more excitement to their lives, this daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects explains why danger is good...
Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the Sixties television show with this third installment. First-time Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer), in his only outing as the Caped Crusader, is effectively brooding as he...
Amazon.com As the 2005 theatrical release of Serenity made clear, Firefly was a science fiction concept that deserved a second chance. Devoted fans (or "Browncoats") knew it all along, and with this well-packaged DVD set, those who missed the show's original broadcasts can see what...
Amazon.com Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semiseriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills tale of a...
It doesn't take Lancaster long to live up to her lengthy subtitle ("Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office"): in just one chapter, she gloats over cheating a homeless man, is rude to a...
Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life...and the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of himself, and he's just trying to...
Michael J. Fox plays the most sympathetic cocaine addict you've ever seen in the movie of Jay McInerney's popular novel Bright Lights, Big City, the book that famously chronicled the coke- and cash-fueled era of the 1980s. Jamie Conway (Fox) works as a fact-checker for a major New York...
Batman Forever[Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3] - DVD
Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the Sixties television show with this third installment. First-time Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer), in his only outing as the Caped Crusader, is effectively brooding as he...
Bill Murray decides to be all that he can be -- and it ain't pretty -- in this hit comedy. John Winger (Murray) is a quick-witted but unambitious loser who comes home after getting fired to discover that his car has been repossessed and his girlfriend is leaving him. With no idea of what to do...
The Tudors: The Complete First Season may cover the same subject matter as the 1970 BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, but in every other respect it is a different idea of historical drama. Sexy and violent, The Tudors envisions Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) as a young man of both passion...
Paul Neilan is working on getting fired from his mind-numbing job at an insurance company in Portland, Oregon, where he spends most of his time hiding in the bathroom and weeping. Born of this and many, many other humiliations, Apathy and Other Small Victories is his first novel.
Product Description "Fast and furious, the All Girl Summer Fun Band really packs a punch." -- Greil Marcus, Interview Magazine For ten years, the All Girl Summer Fun Band has blasted gritty, sunny pop gems out of rainy Portland with a fervor, enthusiasm, and stamina that is...
Let your computer help keep you groomed and clean Let's face it, we geeks sometimes let our personal grooming habits become afterthoughts. Why bother to shave when you spend your day sitting in front of your computer screen writing code? Unfortunately, your boss, or your new clients, like to see...
Possibly the funniest animated lunacy to ever be seen can be seen here on the fifth season of the Simpsons. Practically every episode collected in this handsome set is an all time classic; case in point the insanely funny "Rosebud" in which the evil Mr. Burns yearns to be re-united with...
Amazon.com Fans of Denise Richards will delight in her skin-tight and belly-revealing outfits in Good Advice; fans of Charlie Sheen will enjoy his patented sleazeball-with-a-heart-of-gold performance. Richards is the author of a much-ignored advice column who's trying to drag her hotshot...
San Francisco native Alice O'Brien was having a crappy day...literally. After getting fired for refusing her boss's umpteenth sexual advance and being blessed by a pigeon, she comes home to find her fiancé in the midst of a ménage a trois with their landlady and another man....
There are a lot of daycare options available for families to choose from, but the smaller size of a home daycare offers many advantages large childcare centers can't. An estimated 17 percent of infants and toddlers and 14 percent of preschoolers are cared for in home daycare programs, also...
Someone was bound to do it, we just didn’t think it’d be in under two days. This innocent-looking manilla envelope isn’t one at all — it’s the cushiony protection dubbed AirMail for that Macbook Air you’ll be traipsing around with in two weeks time. I can see...
This independent film, directed by Jordan Susman, gets its title from an infamous book from the 1960s which advocates every conceivable kind of rebellion against authority. This film, on the other hand, is basically apolitical, despite its title and theme. It starts off in an extremely lighthearted...
With the NFL regular season over, the off-season coaching carousel has started up. There’s been more talking and tweeting about who will coach where and which coach is getting fired than there has been about next week’s playoff games. With speculation about so many people and positions,...
Imagine a young couple moving into a new locality in New York and then Paul Rudd, who plays Mr. Husband, getting fired from his job. Well here begins the change of fortunes for the young couple who out of desperation need to movie to Georgia to live with their family. Jennifer Aniston sizzles all...
It was the most pivotal year in Three's Company history for roommates Jack Tripper (John Ritter) and Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt), featuring the final appearances of Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers) and the introduction of her ditzy cousin Cindy (Jenilee Harrison). Don Knotts and Richard Kline co-star...
Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semiseriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills tale of a typical day...
Five Hollywood assistants struggle to stay afloat in a shark-tank of arrogant movie stars and cutthroat agents in Williams's capable debut. Michaela is an assistant to fading sitcom actress and pill-popper Victoria Rush, whose husband, Lorne, is 20 years younger and pathologically unfaithful....
Bill Murray decides to be all that he can be -- and it ain't pretty -- in this hit comedy. John Winger (Murray) is a quick-witted but unambitious loser who comes home after getting fired to discover that his car has been repossessed and his girlfriend is leaving him. With no idea of what to do...
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
Scorecasting solves many puzzles on both a micro- and macro scale... that sports fans have wondered about for years. For example, when baseball home plate umpires have made an obvious mistake in calling a ball or strike do they then try and fix that mistake by making a call the "other...
It's been a year since the hottest au pairs ever saw the Hamptons, and they're certainly older -- though not necessarily wiser. Or drama-free. Eliza, Jacqui, and Mara thought they'd be spending the summer apart, but when Eliza's new stepmother finds herself in need of some nannying...
I found this quite an interesting book to read because of its honesty. Jacks methodology is really survival of the fittest. Whether morally it is a good thing or not is questionable but its necessary in business in order to survive. The book is very readable compared to other business books. Its...
You never quite know what to expect from Emma Holly, which is obviously her intent. She is a writer that continually fascinates me. I don't choose erotic fiction as a matter of routine, because honestly, most of it fails to deliver on the one level I want most - makes me care about the...
From Publishers Weekly Pearson, who stars in HBO's The Wire, was born ill and underweight from her mother's drug habits, and later worked for a crack dealer in East Baltimore. At age 15 she killed a woman in self-defense and wound up in the Jessup State Penitentiary. She got a wakeup call...
Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997 [8 Discs] - DVD
Includes: * Batman (1989), MPAA Rating: PG-13 * Batman Returns (1992), MPAA Rating: PG-13 * Batman Forever (1995), MPAA Rating: PG-13 * Batman & Robin (1997), MPAA Rating: PG-13 Batman Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael...
GOODBYE BRENDA: TAKING DOWN MY SHANNON DOHERTY POSTER
Yesterday I had to do a very sad thing. I went behind my bedroom door and I took my poster of Shannon Doherty off of the wall. Sigh. My poster of Shannon Doherty. It pictures her leaning up against a wall with her arms crossed and dressed in a oversized black blazer with her dark evil eyes, long...
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